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Master’s in Product Design
This series of lessons explores the transformative role of design in addressing contemporary challenges through three themes: Space, Reflection, and Developing the Future.
The projects presented by the second-year students of the Master’s in Product Design offer innovative and sustainable solutions that encourage speculation and inclusion, value the permanence of materials, and challenge stereotypes. Each lesson reflects a commitment to the social and environmental impact of design, proposing objects and interventions that foster dialogue.
Throughout the sessions, discussions will focus on how design can contribute to a more conscious, equitable, and sustainable society, creating connections between people, materials, and environments.
Space
Filipe Honorato, Gabriel Branco & Telmo Fernandes
LESSONS (1, 2 AND 3)
OCTOBER 20TH OF 2025, 2.30PM
AUDITORIUM ATRIUM OF EP.1 – ESAD.CR
The contemporary challenges of the urban context, particularly regarding interior spaces, are increasingly pressing, driving the search for innovative and sustainable solutions. Through product design research, this lesson aims to present and explain different approaches to solving spatial problems such as unfavourable solar orientation and inadequate residential lighting, gaps in the development of versatile furniture design, and difficulties in achieving autonomous and sustainable food production within urban housing.