Emília Duarte, professora e pesquisadora, apresenta a conferência “Design do século XXI: Novas Fronteiras e Responsabilidades” aos alunos do doutoramento em Design, no âmbito da disciplina de Seminários. O encontro terá lugar no dia 29 de novembro, sexta-feira, às 14h, no Auditório da Biblioteca Central/UBI.
Design do século XXI: Novas Fronteiras e Responsabilidades
Humanity faces complex and diffuse systemic challenges such as climate change, pollution, biodiversity loss, hunger, poverty, conflicts, and socially disruptive technologies, whose effects are being felt at an increasingly rapid pace and with more intense impacts. What responsibility does Design bear for the current state of affairs? Should Design engage in these struggles? If so, how? These are open and controversial questions, which generate diverse, sometimes opposing, viewpoints. In this debate, there will be no winners or losers, but we will all lose if there is no discussion, for change is inevitable, either through Design or through catastrophe. In this context, an open, transdisciplinary dialogue, potentially unlikely but profoundly ethical, is both urgent and necessary to restore the fragile balance of the interconnections that sustain life and enable humanity to flourish.
Nota biográfica
Emília Duarte holds a PhD in Human Movement, specializing in Ergonomics from the Technical University of Lisbon (2011), a Master’s degree in Ergonomics in Workplace Safety from the same institution (2006), and a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design from IADE (1994). She is currently a Full Professor of Design at IADE – European University, where she teaches courses on Ergonomics in Design. She is also the Scientific Coordinator of UNIDCOM/IADE – Research Unit in Design and Communication. Previously, she coordinated IADE’s PhD program in Design (until 2023) and the Master’s program in Interaction Design (until 2019). Between 2014 and 2016, she served as Vice-Rector for Research and Development at IADE-U and was Director of the Postgraduate Studies Department.
Her research focuses on areas such as Interaction Design, Emotional Design, Human-Robot Interaction, Information Design, and Cognitive Ergonomics. Among her interests are Social Design, including issues like Design for Health and Well-being, Design for Behavioral Change, and Ethics in Design. Throughout her career, she has participated in various research projects, supervised six doctoral theses (with four in progress), and more than thirty master’s theses. She has authored over 100 publications in scientific journals and conference proceedings, and co-edited a book and seven international conference proceedings.