By rescuing part of the collection of bibliologist Orlando da Costa Ferreira (OCF), this project aims to catalogue and map the Brazilian printing industry in the 1950s and 1960s. This will be done by digitising and analysing the texts published by Orlando da Costa Ferreira in newspapers between June 1957 and April 1964. The final product of this research, in addition to the production of scientific articles, will be the launch of a book containing a selection of this material and essays by researchers taking part in the project.

This research aims to explore the rapprochement between the areas of design and moving images, including cinema, video, animated films, digital images generated by programming and images circulating on social media. It is intended to address the issue from both a historical and contemporary genealogical perspective.

Development of a parameterised methodology, according to various factors, to calculate the costs involved in medical graduation; Forms of decentralising the provision of health services - A comparative study of the advantages and disadvantages of the various forms of decentralising the provision of health services, such as OSSs, direct management, State Foundations, etc.

The discussion of innovation management and entrepreneurship has been gaining relevance over the years. At a global level, the United States and China are considered to be the countries that invest the most in innovation and, as a result, end up having an impact on the innovation agenda of other trading partner countries. In Europe, the countries belonging to the European Union aim to increase investment in innovation, but few of them have investments close to the desired level, which is 3 per cent of GDP (EUROSTAT, 2019). Studies carried out by Booz Allen Hamilton draw attention to the lack of correlation between levels of innovation funding and corporate performance (Booz Allen Hamilton, 2006). The need for innovation as a condition for competitive success, the growing movements for greater investment in innovation and the need to obtain better results from the investment made are all elements that make the discussion of innovation management and entrepreneurship in organisations essential. The innovation process, although well known, takes a long time and the results are rarely known (especially in the early stages of idea generation and research). Some of the resources required by this process, such as creativity, knowledge and techniques, are not very controllable, which makes it difficult to allocate funds for their development. These are some of the particularities that make the management of innovation and entrepreneurship a fundamental issue to be addressed within the framework of the proposal to create this laboratory, called LAGIE - Laboratory for the Management of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Research, analyse and critique the concepts, elements and factors that influence the actions of technological entrepreneurs that lead to technological innovations, as well as innovation management models that develop regions and change the paradigm of society.

This line of research uses design concepts to support the solution of organisational problems, whether when designing a new business or managing an established company.

The recent downgrading of Rio de Janeiro's investment grade and the state's brutal crisis clearly indicate an inadequate development model and a negative legacy of the mega-events held here. The ‘creative’ plays a role in these processes. The research will develop along two axes:

In order to understand urbanity today, it is necessary to grasp the material dynamics of the mobilisation and constitution of metropolitan territories and, at the same time, more specifically, the urban ‘projects’ that are articulated or try to overlap with the former. Here are some clues for reflection: on the one hand, in the transition from the industrial city to the post-industrial megalopolis, the transformations in the modes of production, accumulation and labour itself and, on the other, the consequences of these transformations on the urban project. It's about reflecting on the encounters and mismatches between the material transformations that traverse and (re)structure metropolitan spaces and the political, economic and, above all, design actions that simultaneously try to deal with these dynamics, determine them or are determined by them. Is the crisis the city's or the project's, the way of designing itself? And how can design contribute?

Taking COP 26 as a starting point, taking into account the visuality of both its institutional framework and the demonstrations in the streets, we realise a certain limitation in the representation of such pressing objectives as the warming of our planet. We understand that even though the objective of reducing greenhouse gases is very well defined, it requires the mobilisation of a much more open imaginary, in other words, other imaginary practices that can give rise to other possibilities for action. We have tried to show here that the guiding authors (Haraway, Latour, Bratton and others) bring with their theoretical approach some practical proposals and, in particular, image practices.

The CURA research group fundamentally seeks to address issues involving the field of Architecture and Urbanism, based on the notions of Resistance and Culture. Its central aim is to develop studies that contribute to mitigating the historic social abyss in the cities of today. Not by chance, the title is organised to build on the acronym that names the group, giving meaning to what the studies and lines proposed seek to build: CURA. Yes, studies that seek to restore the health of cities and buildings and, above all, to heal the wounds opened by social inequality. Since 2015, it has encompassed various academic, design and cultural activities, including: developing and/or supervising research and projects involving UERJ professors and students, as well as researchers from other institutions; organising academic events; and publishing. As an example of the repercussions, we can mention the winning of FAPERJ calls for proposals in 2015 and 2018.

The general aim of this project is to carry out an investigation into the architecture of terreiros in contemporary times, based on their historical relationship with echoes of Afro-Brazilian subjectivity that mark the constructive, formal and typological characteristics of these sacred spaces. The central hypothesis of the research is to understand that the condition of the contemporary architecture of African-origin cult terreiros, in their ways of using space, holds traces that indicate a habitability of traditions, ancestry, quilombismo, etc. The historical relationships, adaptations and strategies of a people who were enslaved and subjected to a new culture of domination generated alternatives of resistance to maintain their faith and religious practices. Thus, the architecture of contemporary terreiros seems to bear many traces of these strategies of resistance and adaptability in their uses and constructive adaptations.

Starting from a scenario in which technological mediation is constituted and condensed as a structural form of relations in an information society, this research takes a fresh look at practices in the field of design teaching. This study looks at how perceptions and sensitivities regarding the use of digital technologies are in some way representative in the context of Esdi's design course. Institutional and private initiatives regarding access to and use of digital technology at Esdi seem to be circumscribed by a whole universe of possibilities and values. The object of this research is to get to know the practices and reflections that take place around digital information and communication technologies in the context of a design course at a public university, ESDI, understanding that this use is a vector for the production of subjectivities in design teaching.

The problem posed by this research project is epistemological in nature: it seeks to reflect on ways of producing knowledge in the field of Design from an interpretive approach - the term ‘interpretive’, adopted here, refers to the concept of Verstehen (interpretation, understanding), as used in the hermeneutic tradition. The main aim of the project is to take the first steps towards building an interpretive epistemic basis for scientific studies in Design. At the conclusion of the research, it is hoped to present some theoretical and methodological guidelines that can guide future research in the area.

This research aims to investigate the transition in colour printing techniques between manual interpretation and photomechanics. To illustrate this, we will look at the first colour prints produced in the country between 1880 and 1945, in particular the playful prints in the collection of the National Library Foundation. We will consider prints produced for the purpose of entertainment and amusement. In this context, we will look at colourful prints illustrating Brazil's fledgling children's literature, toys and games (aimed at both children and adults). The use of colour has an attractive differential for this type of graphic piece, and is essential as a strategy for persuasion and interest. The historical recovery aims to locate, identify and technically describe this type of print, promoting interest in Brazilian graphic memory and the visibility of seductive pieces from the BN's collection.

The research group "MEMORABLES: affective graphic manifestations" (UFPE), coordinated by Camila Brito and Solange Coutinho, aims to investigate graphic manifestations of affective memory, as well as design contributions to the development of memorable products. Initially, the group investigates the connections between graphic memory and design, urban graphics and affective memory, graphic memory, vernacular, issues of cultural identity, urban landscape and image studies in design, being able to integrate other areas according to the demands of project development. The group carries out teaching, research and extension activities, disseminating and sharing the group's production, as well as at relevant technical-scientific and cultural events in the area. The group's activities also include project consultancy, guidance on final works and participation in panels on topics related to the research lines.

This project aims to collect, document, archive and disseminate part of the teaching practices of Esdi, UERJ's School of Industrial Design. The project is based on the importance and pioneering spirit of the school since 1963 and its contributions to design teaching in Brazil, such as its influence in establishing the minimum curriculum for design courses. Despite its prominence, there is still little material available for consultation on the school's teaching and pedagogical practices and much of what is known is preserved by oral accounts and through people connected to the school, both former students and teachers. There are also archives and collections, both at the school and in private collections that have yet to be identified, which document the work and exercises done by students and taught by teachers and which can contribute to a greater understanding of the ways in which design was taught. With regard to the relationship between design and education, existing publications favour historical accounts and curricular issues, but provide little material for an investigation into pedagogical practices. In this sense, the project aims to identify and recover practices through consultations, interviews and the recording of materials produced in order to produce and make available a collection for future research.

What are the future prospects for urban life in the face of climate change? With this question in mind, and mobilising contributions from the humanities and design, this project focuses on building scenarios of possible futures for some cities around the world. These scenarios will offer a speculative overview of the possible consequences of climate change for urban life in 2050. Three cities with very different political and economic situations were selected as the key points for drawing up these scenarios: Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Copenhagen (Denmark) and Hargeisa (Somaliland). Materialising speculative and imaginative work oriented towards possible futures, the scenarios drawn up in this project will offer input for potentially innovative design projects that seek to deal with the effects of climate change on urban life.

This research project investigates the historical, social and political relations of the field of Design as a device that operates in the conformation of gender and sexuality discourses in Western society. Through Queer, (Trans) Feminist and Decolonial studies, as well as historical research, this project proposes a critical and propositional approach to the political implications of design as a mediation technology in the normalisation of bodies. In this sense, the project also aims to investigate and publicise aesthetic-political practices and graphic memories that form counter-normative networks of resistance to erasure in the face of dominant regimes of visibility in a defined spatiality and temporality such as Brazil - and Latin America from the second half of the 20th century onwards.

Based on an understanding of design as a device that operates alongside mass communications in shaping discourses and subjectivities - understanding its praxis as a mediation technology in the standardisation of bodies in networked societies - this project promotes investigations into the ways in which technoscience, especially in the period marked by the digital transformation of cultural practices, affects regimes of visibility and collective memory.

To investigate design processes in teaching-learning strategies, inside or outside formal education, exploring the use of design thinking in activities that integrate knowledge, procedures and affections; that involve the organisation of the needs and desires of the subjects involved; that consider the complex characteristics of the context in which they occur and that promote the use of appropriate technologies, with the aim of providing a qualitative difference for the community involved.

The project proposes the identification, implementation and dissemination of strategies for articulation and reciprocal fertilisation between spaces, objects and knowledge produced at ESDI and CAp/UERJ, with a view to teacher qualification and the promotion of quality basic education. In this sense, our objectives are: (1) to immerse ESDI professors in the context of CAp/UERJ and vice versa with a view to developing an action plan involving potential agents and spaces from both institutions to make the joint actions identified feasible; (2) to implement and record the actions listed; (3) to publicise the results achieved through the production of articles, events and other appropriate devices, both inside and outside UERJ, ensuring that the synergy between the two institutions is known, strengthened and enduring. We believe that these actions have the potential to promote the integration and engagement of designers, teachers, technicians and managers at UERJ in order to bring competences and curricular content closer to the daily lives and languages/interactions of contemporary students, favouring more exciting learning for these subjects. We believe that in this way we will contribute to building a collaborative base of good practice between ESDI and CAp/UERJ and by actively disseminating it, both inside and outside UERJ, we will foster a fertile path of articulation between Design and Education.

Explore educational situations that involve teaching-learning devices and/or the development of practical activities, projects or prototypes that articulate knowledge from different dimensions or pedagogical resources that contribute to increasing the quality of interaction involving learners.

Investigate pedagogical practices, teaching-learning methodologies, curricular proposals and historical aspects of specialized training in Design. Study didactic artifacts, languages, technologies, discourses and learning spaces of this training; Analyze possible sociocultural and pedagogical interactions of specialized and non-specialized training (formal and non-formal) involved in this segment.

To investigate the exercise of design thinking and participatory design in teacher training (undergraduate, teaching, continuing education); To promote training that encourages the formation of teacher-designers of learning experiences; To record the exercise of teaching practices that make use of stimulating resources and activities, taking into account different cognitive and affective profiles.