Publications
Publications are one of the main outputs for measuring Elisava Research’s knowledge production and, by extension, its impact. We publish regularly in recognised scientific journals, curate and edit books and magazines, as well as our indexed annual scientific Journal Temes de Disseny. We strive in making all these publications Open Access.
Materials Sustainability
Materials Sustainability
Food Design as a link between design and gastronomy. The gastronomic experience in Catalonia from 2000 to 2020
The Food Designer as a professional will be the link to create bridges that can bring both disciplines together and offer transdisciplinary solutions that take into consideration the difficult issues raised by the present and the future of food.
Purposeful businesses
Purposeful businesses
Creative transversal competencies as a link between higher education in product design and the company
Elisava case study, due to its relevance in higher education in Spain and its influence and connection with the national and international business fabric from Barcelona. The results of this research allow us to define useful tools to enhance the interconnection of the new generations of students with the industrial reality and its possible demands for jobs.
Creative activism Social
Creative activism Social
Design through cinema: A cinematographic approach to the practice and discourse of product design
Design and cinema can be considered two creative disciplines that generate cultural products, and with multiple relationships between them, but they have not always been studied. This thesis proposes to bring these two areas closer through an analysis of the representation in the cinema of the practice and discourse of product design. Likewise, the thesis reflects on the cinematographic representation of the identity of the designer.
City Efficiency
City Efficiency
Action Architecture. Socio-spatial practices for a critical intervention in the hypermodern city
In the current context of hypermodernity and deterritorialization, we face the need to rethink the architectural paradigm and develop new spatiotemporal strategies and new models of action in the city that demand spatial justice. Based on this need, the main objective is to articulate a body of socio-spatial strategies for critical intervention in the hypermodern city that we choose to call 'action architecture'.
Care Materials
Care Materials
Systemic model of the design process for an engineering company that designs using advanced materials. Scientific exploration in intelligent inks
Systemic model of the design process for an engineering company that designs using advanced materials. Scientific exploration in intelligent inks. This thesis proposes a possible nanotechnology, an ultrawearable epidermal electronics that allows generating and storing personal data.
Care Materials
Care Materials
Conscious Ergonomics in Architecture. Information and interaction between the built environment, the human being and their integral wellbeing
Conscious Ergonomics in Architecture. Information and interaction between the built environment, human beings and their integral well-being. This thesis explores the well-being and health of workers, a problem that has always been in development. For this, ergonomics appears that tries to solve the negative impact of the environment on human beings.
Creative activism
Creative activism
Analysis and definition of the creative skills of designers
Analysis and definition of the creative competences of designers: creation of tools for the analysis of competences for their application in the educational and professional field of design. This thesis investigates the designer's creative competencies based on observations of young designers and the collection of qualitative data from professionals.
Efficiency Materials
Efficiency Materials
Graphene: communication and knowledge transfer
Graphene: communication and knowledge transfer through the online press and participatory design methodologies reflects on the misinformation of society and the type of communication that is carried out. From the use of graphene, a two-dimensional material, a new form of communication is proposed through workshops with experts and non-experts or students. In this thesis, graphene serves as a connector between different sectors of society.
Care Materials
Care Materials
Kansei Engineering in the field of design: an applied engineering approach to material perception
Kansei engineering in the field of design: an approach from applied engineering to the perception of materials applies Kansei engineering as a method to develop products in order to convey the emotional needs of the users. In this research, statistical engineering is used to improve product development.
Creative activism Social
Creative activism Social
Portable Public Space: Embodied Responses to the Mediterranean Refugee Crisis
Portable Public Space: Embodied Responses to the Mediterranean Refugee Crisis explores new formats of public space related to the body-in-transit, in order to propose radical design approaches to the humanitarian crisis that posit the human body as the locus and the means for a revised practice of care.
Culture Social
Culture Social
Pursuing Publishing. Elise By Olsen in Conversation
In June 2019 Elise By Olsen was invited to deliver Elisava's graduation lecture. Her talk took the form of an informal conversation with Professor Saul Baeza, taking her past, present and future projects as starting points to navigate freely through her thoughts, approaches and techniques.
Culture Social
Culture Social
Design Does
The Design Does book is a collection of essays that explore and question the purpose, responsibility and impact of design in today’s world.
Culture Social
Culture Social
Decoding Design Does
Decoding Design Does is a sort of biography of Elisava Research. Its author Ariel Guersenzvaig traces the development of the research group from its earliest stages, focusing on the vision and scientific approach that have guided it over the years.
Materials
Materials
Temes de Disseny #34. Material interactions in the human-made milieu
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, Big Data and other technologies are becoming more and more widespread, and this could empower them as new materials for design. But what special features do they present? How should design include them in its practices? How do they affect design research? Human-computer interaction (HCI)? User experience (UX)? What are their ethical implications?
Efficiency New European Bauhaus Sustainability
Efficiency New European Bauhaus Sustainability
Temes de Disseny #35. AI and Emerging Digital Technologies as a Design Material
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, Big Data and other technologies are becoming more and more widespread, and this could empower them as new materials for design. But what special features do they present? How should design include them in its practices? How do they affect design research? Human-computer interaction (HCI)? User experience (UX)? What are their ethical implications?
Culture Identity Social
Culture Identity Social
Decoding European Creative Skills
Decoding European Creative Skills (DECS) is a project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union led by Elisava along with Eindhoven University of Technology and Fachhochschule Salzburg University of Applied Sciences in order to share with the rest of the design communities our interest in getting to know our profession.
Culture Identity Social
Culture Identity Social
Visions By – Issue No. 2
The second volume of Visions By addresses the different perspectives on materiality and material cultures from a critical and speculative research approach.
Culture Identity Social
Culture Identity Social
Visions By – Issue No. 1
First edition of Visions By magazine directed by Saúl Baeza and Laura Clèries of Elisava Research that focuses on the exploration of material culture.
City Data Efficiency
City Data Efficiency
Operative Mapping – Maps as Design Tools
The purpose of this book is to explore the critical uses of maps in design, and it introduces the concept of operative mapping as its cornerstone.
Efficiency New European Bauhaus Sustainability
Efficiency New European Bauhaus Sustainability
Temes de Disseny #36. Design Futures Now: Literacies and Making
This new issue of Temes de Disseny - Design Futures Now: Literacies and Making - presents the challenge of framing design’s role in futures making through a series of contemporary scientific works
Creative activism Sustainability
Creative activism Sustainability
Grafeno: A material for a paradigm shift
Dr. Javier Peña, CEO of Elisava, makes an elaborate tour of what graphene represents, its appearance and its perception in our society.
Creative activism Sustainability
Creative activism Sustainability
About
Collection of 226 terms that Elisava considers essential in the vocabulary of designers and engineers.
Creative activism New European Bauhaus Sustainability
Creative activism New European Bauhaus Sustainability
Elisava Insights
Can we increase the potential for empathy not only with other humans, but perhaps with other species and ecosystems? These and other questions are answered by the Elisava Insights studies, which aim to address the challenges facing the future of humanity.
Materials New European Bauhaus Sustainability
Materials New European Bauhaus Sustainability
Material Designers. Boosting talent towards circular economies
What if we used creativity to provide better circular economy solutions through the ideation of new materials? MaDe Book is a resourceful knowledge guide providing a better understanding on how materials design contributes to attain a more circular economy.