This line brings together research that reflects on different manifestations and means of visuality and image technologies, as well as design's relationship with history and material culture; it brings the visual arts closer to digital technologies and investigates moving image processes, graphic production, data visualization, artificial intelligence and interface design.

This line of research focuses on innovation and services, investigations into ways of managing knowledge and decision-making processes.

Based on an understanding of the political implications of design, this line seeks to investigate the field's relationship with design thinking and the processes of knowledge production, subjectivisation and social transformation in contemporary societies.

The line of research investigates the making of design in anthropocene, dwelling and territoriality, together with areas such as anthropology, philosophy, architecture, urbanism and art.

In this line of research, the terms technology, product and innovation help to delimit the broad field of design studies. The research gathered here analyses theoretical and practical contributions to the production of knowledge in both academic and business circles.

This line of research develops critical research that investigates design and the making of design, taking into account theoretical and historical aspects, and its insertion in social, cultural and economic dynamics. It includes theoretical, experimental and applied research, exploring topics such as scientific paradigms, design thinking, ways of producing knowledge about and for design, design teaching; in conjunction with other areas of knowledge, such as philosophy, history, anthropology and art.