Filipa Pias
Designer PhD - Topic: Design, Agrifood, Circular economy, Healthy eating habits, Value
I’m Filipa Pias, designer Ph.D., from Lisbon.
Any design project always causes some kind of impact on populations and natural resources, in the sense that it may or may not reduce consumption and waste, help or not to improve behaviors that do not compromise the planet.
Throughout the process of developing products, packaging, labels, transport, promotional materials, among others, it is possible to optimize costs and minimize the impact on the environment, namely in the selection of formats, raw materials and sustainable production processes, in the use of waste. Design can also develop narratives that aim to raise awareness of the preservation of the environment, to make known the path of the product, from production to the consumer, in order to value what is done, sometimes in a different way. intuitive, through knowledge or tradition, whether in the way it is produced, in the way it relates and involves with the community or on the useful life of the product and the initiatives to extend it.
Design is, in this perspective, an essential competence to stimulate competitiveness and differentiation in accordance with the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, defined by the UN in 2016.
My research interest focus is about how design could redesign food experience for a sustainable and healthier food, through a tool to help the sector to choose circular design solutions in each project that intends to develop and be abble to evaluate the result.
A tool that taking the product and its qualities as a starting point, invite to reflect on what you want to achieve with design collaboration, in a cause-and-effect dynamic, which helps to identify strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for the adoption of a design circular, so that at each stage of the process, the useful life of a raw material or product is successively extended in new products with added value, so that from production to acquisition, confection and storage, habits tend to improve and cause the least possible impact on the environment.
Research Centre - CIAUD Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura, Urbanismo e Design / Lisbon School of Architecture / Universidade de Lisboa
https://ciaud.fa.ulisboa.pt/index.php/pt/
