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.
VISIONS BY – Issue No. 6
Sixth issue of VISIONS BY, which deals with a variety of topics related to death, exploitation, eroticism and even the symbolic correspondences between catholic folklore and makina music. When there is no future, we learn to appreciate the remains.
Culture
Identity
Social
Culture
Identity
Social
VISIONS BY – Issue No. 5
La quinta entrega de VISIONS BY donde se diseña para la vida, la muerte y la posteridad, abordando las diferentes perspectivas sobre la materialidad y las culturas materiales desde un enfoque de investigación crítico y especulativo.
Creative activism
Social
Sustainability
Creative activism
Social
Sustainability
Change Agents. Blueprints for interinstitutional collaborations in social design
Created as part of the Change Agents, its objective is to bring the design-focused academic sector and the NGO ecosystem closer together to cultivate a deeper understanding between these important stakeholders.
Creative activism
Identity
Social
Creative activism
Identity
Social
Temes de Disseny #40 The Role of the Designer in Society: Ethical, Theoretical and Practical Perspectives
Temes de Disseny #40 by Elisava tackles the question of the role of designers in today's complex society and the ethical, theoretical and practical perspectives that may arise from this debate.
Culture
Identity
Social
Culture
Identity
Social
VISIONS BY – Issue No. 4
VISIONS BY Issue No. 4 presents an evolution from its previous format and structure in order to mutate and seek the best way to explore content.
Creative activism
Social
Creative activism
Social
Portable Public Space: New Public Space Formats for the Navire Avenir Rescue Ship
Portable Public Space: New Public Space Formats for the Navire Avenir Rescue Ship is Elisava Research's second proposal for the ship Navire Avenir that raises new approaches to the European refugee crisis through design practices about care.
City
New European Bauhaus
Sustainability
City
New European Bauhaus
Sustainability
Temes de Disseny #39. Emerging Habitats: Design as a Worldmaking Agent
Temes de Disseny #39 explores emerging habitats and design as a worldmaking agent across a variety of scales, settings and disciplines. Can design leverage its worldmaking potential, using its symbolic and operative apparatuses to proliferate various versions of the world?
City
Efficiency
New European Bauhaus
City
Efficiency
New European Bauhaus
Plug-ins
This book showcases some of the projects developed by Elisava’s Design for City Making Research Lab, a research institute that investigates the role of design in the material and social construction of our habitats, focusing on spatiality, temporality, interactions, meaning, citizen engagement and social impact.
Creative activism
Culture
Identity
Creative activism
Culture
Identity
Vibe
VIBE is an experimental platform for cultural content, community exchange and hybrid experiences that has explored new ways of consuming culture, which had its pilot test with the interdisciplinary exhibition Active Activism Act, at IDEAL in Barcelona.
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
Identity
Social
Culture
Identity
Social
VISIONS BY – Issue No. 3
La tercera entrega de VISIONS BY Issue está organizada conceptualmente alrededor de una espiral, explorando la distancia que presenta el contenido en relación al cuerpo humano.
Health
New European Bauhaus
Social
Health
New European Bauhaus
Social
Temes de Disseny #38. Caring Through Design: From Personal to Planetary Well-being
Temes de Disseny #38 addresses the complex issue of health and human well-being. It explores how design and engineering can help by providing more meaningful, healthy and caring spaces, personal devices and interactions that promote well-being and, in turn, can make the world a better place.
Creative activism
Social
Creative activism
Social
Civic Placemaking 3: disseny, espai públic i cohesió social. Primer de Maig, Granollers
Research project Civic Placemaking: disseny, espai públic i cohesió social (CP3) focuses on community action to explore temporary uses in urban environments, making this citizen science knowledge serve to propose ephemeral architecture formats that support the free appropriation of 'public space by the neighbors.
Creative activism
Social
Creative activism
Social
Civic Placemaking 2: disseny, espai públic i cohesió social. Raval, Barcelona
Research project Civic Placemaking: disseny, espai públic i cohesió social (CP2) focuses on exploring the capabilities of ephemeral architecture to promote interaction between citizens while introducing new uses in public space.
Creative activism
Social
Creative activism
Social
Civic Placemaking: disseny, espai públic i cohesió social. Marianao, Sant Boi de Llobregat
Research project Civic Placemaking: disseny, espai públic i cohesió social (CP) seeks to promote social cohesion and intercultural integration in an organic and effective way through ephemeral architecture projects that have an impact on public space, foster a proactive citizenship in making decisions about their environment, and stimulate a sense of belonging and active citizenship.
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 cinethnographic 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.