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design de informação, literacia dos dados, educação em design, empresas de design em Portugal Este estudo resulta de um exercício desenvolvido dentro do âmbito do projeto nacional "Para um observatório de design em Portugal: modelos, instrumentos, representações, estratégias", com 15 alunos de mestrado da Universidade de Aveiro. Objetivou mapear dados económicos e financeiros sobre 1200 empresas de design em Portugal e capacitar jovens designers na interpretação e representação de dados. Durante um semestre, os alunos categorizaram, curaram, densificaram e mapearam a informação sobre essas empresas. Usaram essa informação para desenvolver uma infografia, com abstrações e metáforas, constituindo a sua primeira experiência de manuseamento e comunicação de dados. Os resultados preliminares indicam uma emancipação importante por parte dos alunos, que demonstraram interesse e capacidade crítica, na interpretação dos dados. Este estudo constitui mais um passo rumo à consolidação de uma abordagem participativa e distribuída de observação, essencial para a construção de um observatório de design em Portugal. information design, data literacy, design education, design companies in PortugalThis study is the result of an exercise developed within the scope of the project "Towards a design observatory in Portugal: models, instruments, representations, strategies", with 15 master students from the University of Aveiro. It aimed to map economic and financial data of 1200 design companies in Portugal and to train novice design students to start their journey in data interpretation and representation. During the period of one semester, students categorized, cured, densified and mapped information about these companies. They used this information to develop infographics, with abstractions and metaphors, constituting their first experience with data manipulation and representation. The preliminary results indicate an important emancipation for students, who showed interest and critical capacity to interpret the data. This study is another step towards the consolidation of a participatory and distributed observation approach, essential for the construction of a design observatory in Portugal. Observar o design em PortugalDesde 2013, com a extinção do Centro Português de Design (Curado, 2013), não existe um instrumento de política pública que sirva de interface entre o ecossistema de design nacional e o tecido socioeconómico Português. Pela falta de visibilidade, o design torna-se cada vez mais operativo, enquanto fator de inovação e desenvolvimento. Um inquérito distribuído a nível Europeu para avaliar a inovação no continente revela por exemplo que, em Portugal, apenas Anais do 10º Congresso Internacional de Design da Informação | CIDI 2021

The DesignOBS project was created to collect, map and interpret data about the Portuguese Design Ecosystem, providing supportive information for decision making. This study takes advantage of a participative Design perspective to define and test an observation process via a case based on Design doctorates undertaken in Portugal. It emphasises the need for additional participatory analysis and curation by experts to evaluate and develop more reliable information about the discipline. Moreover, it develops recommendations that can enhance the communicability of Design doctorates.

The present study undertaken within the DesignOBS project is based on 172 PhD theses in Design submitted to the Portuguese National Design Schools between 2005 and 2019. It focuses in particular on the extraction and analysis of 522 PhD citations appended to design doctoral work. The analysis is used to observe school impact, explore the weight of previous design focused and non-design doctoral work to develop PhD research in design in the country. The results reveal few connections between doctorates and few overlaps in-between as well as outside design schools; thus, indicating poor continuity and reproducibility of domestic doctoral work, little tradition of PhD citation, and an important weight of non-design schools.A network-based visualization of the connections between PhDs in design within PhD thesis, by use of a citation analysis method, enabled to draw reflections on the status of domestic doctoral research in Portugal and provides an empirical approach to explore the reproducibility of this type of research which may be used in other countries.