ESART lecturers launch international reference book on Design, Music and the Arts
Daniel Raposo, João Neves, Ricardo Silva, Luísa Correia Castilho, Rui Dias
ESART lecturers launch international reference book on Design, Music and the Arts
The School of Applied Arts of the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco (IPCB) is proud to announce the launch of the book ‘Advances in Design, Music and Arts III: 9th International Meeting of Research in Music, Arts and Design’, whose editors are Daniel Raposo, João Neves, Ricardo J. Nunes da Silva, Luísa Correia Castilho and Rui Dias, all lecturers at the School of Applied Arts of the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, and which was published under the seal of the prestigious Springer publishing house. This work is the result of the scientific contributions presented during the 9th edition of EIMAD – International Research Meeting in Music, Arts and Design – an interdisciplinary research meeting held in June 2024.
With 1,450 pages and 105 articles organised into two volumes, ‘Advances in Design, Music and Arts III’ reflects the diversity and depth of the themes debated throughout the event. Each volume, through cutting-edge research, addresses specific areas, proposing innovative analyses and solutions to contemporary challenges, whether global or specific in nature.
The first volume looks at Communication Design, Interior and Product Design, Music and Heritage as agents that energise education, quality of life, innovation, sustainability and culture.
The articles are organised into four parts: Communication Design, Culture and Society; Interior and Product Design; Digital Media and Media Arts; Music, Heritage and Culture.
Volume II explores the impact of Fashion Design, Design Education and Music and Art Education in promoting culture, innovation and sustainability, with the various articles organised into three themes: Fashion and Textile Design, Sustainability and Identity; Design Education and Innovative Approaches; Music and Art Education, Culture and Society.
The various articles that make up the two volumes are aligned with the Global Agendas and their respective challenges: such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), defined in the United Nations 2030 Agenda, which address the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. In addition, Advances in Design, Music and Arts III incorporates the principles of the New European Bauhaus, an initiative conceived by the European Commission that promotes creativity, sustainability and inclusion to transform society and bring it closer to the Green Deal objectives. This framework reinforces the book’s commitment to connecting scientific research with contemporary social and environmental challenges.
This framework demonstrates the book’s commitment to connecting scientific research with real challenges, offering innovative and applicable solutions that promote sustainability, inclusion and human development.
More than just a collection of research, Advances in Design, Music and Arts III highlights the role of creativity and critical thinking as drivers of change and explores how design, music and the arts can positively influence society, proposing innovative and sustainable solutions to complex challenges.
As in previous editions, the book has the seal of the prestigious Springer, a world-renowned publisher, and is published under the collective title’ (series) indexed in Scopus, thus ensuring the visibility and impact of this work within the international academic community.
With the participation of researchers from different countries and scientific areas, this work is testimony to the relevance of EIMAD as a global platform for the exchange of ideas and the promotion of interdisciplinary research. The publication also reaffirms ESART/IPCB’s role as a centre of excellence in the production of scientific knowledge and the strengthening of collaborative networks, highlighting the relevance of the areas of design, music and the arts for sustainable and cultural development.
The book is available on the Springer website and can be purchased by institutions and researchers interested in exploring the rich content of its pages. For more information, visit: Springer – Advances in Design, Music and Arts III.
About the editors:
Daniel Raposo has been editor of twenty-three books, author of three books, edited and written in collaboration with other national and international researchers. He has been Editor-in-Chief of Convergências – Revista de Investigação e Ensino das Artes since 2008 (indexed in Scopus), Associate Editor of The Design Journal (Taylor and Francis and indexed in Scopus) and InfoDesign Brazilian Journal of Information Design (Sociedade Brasileira de Design da Informação, Brazil, indexed in Scopus); and has co-organised EIMAD – Encontro Internacional de Investigação em Música, Artes e Design since 2011.
He is a communication designer and Coordinating Professor at the Castelo Branco Polytechnic Institute. He has a post-doctoral degree and a PhD in Design from the University of Lisbon, a master’s degree in Design, Materials and Product Management from the University of Aveiro, a degree in Communication Design from the Polytechnic of Portalegre and a level III Design Technician from the Nuno Álvares Secondary School. He is a researcher at CIAUD – Centre for Research in Architecture, Urbanism and Design and Rethink – Research Group on Design for the Territory.
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João Neves is a Communication Designer and Coordinating Professor in the area of Communication Design at the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco – School of Arts (Portugal). He has a degree in Technology and Graphic Arts (Polytechnic Institute of Tomar), a Masters in Design, Materials and Product Management (University of Aveiro) and a PhD in Design (Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon). Researcher since 2008 at CIAUD – Centre for Research in Architecture, Urbanism and Design (Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon), currently an Effective Researcher in the area of Design. Expert on Technical Commission 46 (Fire safety and graphic symbols), Subcommittee 4 (Pictograms and safety symbols), Working Group 1 (Safety signalling) of the Portuguese Quality Institute. Member of several juries, scientific supervisor and co-supervisor of various doctoral theses, dissertations, internships and academic projects related to communication design, guidance systems, information design, signage and signalling. He regularly presents papers and publishes in scientific journals, conference proceedings and other publications in the field of design. He has been working as a graphic designer since 1998 and is a member (and founder) of the National Association of Designers (Portugal).
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Ricardo J. Nunes da Silva is an assistant professor at the Castelo Branco Polytechnic Institute – School of Applied Arts. He holds a PhD in Art History from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon and obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the same institution, respectively. Since 2008, he has been a researcher at ARTIS-Instituto de História da Arte/Centro de Investigação (ARTIS-IHA-FLUL). He is also a researcher at the Red Internacional de Investigación Tardogótico, where, between 2018 and 2023, he was a member of its board of directors. He has developed and participated in more than a dozen national and international scientific research projects in the fields of architectural history and art history (15th and 16th centuries). He is a member of the Observatorio Permanente Sevilla-Lisbon, Centros Artísticos y Capitales de Ultramar (University of Seville); a member of the Scientific Committee of the Centre for Studies in Culture, History, Art and Heritage – CECHAP. He is a scientific reviewer for the journals ARTIS ON and Convergências – Revista de Investigação e Ensino das Artes. He has published several articles in specialised journals, book chapters and books (as author and co-author). In 2020, he was awarded the APHA/Millennium José-Augusto França prize for the best PhD Thesis – a prize awarded by the APHA – Portuguese Association of Art Historians.
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Luísa Correia Castilho completed her doctorate in Music and Musicology at the University of Évora with a dissertation entitled As obras de Manuel de Tavares e o desenvolvimento da policoralidade na polifonia portuguesa do século XVII. He has a Master’s degree in Musical Sciences from the University of Coimbra, with a dissertation on music in the Castelo Branco Cathedral, a degree in Musical Sciences from the New University of Lisbon and a General Course in Singing and Piano from the Castelo Branco Regional Conservatory. She is an integrated member of CESEM – Centre for the Study of Sociology and Musical Aesthetics and a collaborating member of Age.comm – Interdisciplinary Research Unit – Ageing Communities. She is a Coordinating Professor at the School of Applied Arts of the Castelo Branco Polytechnic Institute. She is a member of the Ethics Committee of the IPCB and CESEM, ESART’s representative on GAENEE (Support Office for Students with Special Educational Needs) and Vice-President of ESART’s Technical-Scientific Council. She has taken part in national and international congresses, courses, seminars and conferences in the fields of musicology and education. É autora de vários capítulos de livros e artigos publicados em periódicos de referência indexados. Fez parte de projetos de investigação no qual se destaca: Ordo Christi – Património Artístico da Ordem de Cristo entre o Zêzere e o Tejo (séc. XV e XVI) e Textos e vozes perdidas e achadas. Recuperação, reconstituição e recriação de fragmentos de música (c.1100-c.1600). Tem como áreas de interesse: Música, Ensino de Música, Didática da Música, Metodologia de intervenção musical, Musicologia, Iconografia musical, História Local.
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Rui Dias is a composer, multimedia artist and researcher from Braga, where he studied jazz and classical piano, completing a complementary course at the Calouste Gulbenkian Conservatory. He has a degree in Composition from ESMAE-IPP (Porto), where he studied with Virgílio Melo, Cândido Lima, Filipe Pires and Carlos Guedes. In 2009 he completed a Master’s degree in Multimedia at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, and in 2018 a PhD in Digital Media at UT Austin / Portugal with a research area in music computation and automatic music generation.
He is a lecturer at the School of Applied Arts of the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco (ESART-IPCB), and coordinator of the degree in Electronic Music and Music Production and the master’s degree in Digital Media Production. He was a researcher in the Sound and Music Computing (SMC) group at INESC-TEC Porto between 2010 and 2018 and is currently a researcher at the Techn&Art research centre at the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar.
He regularly presents artistic work as a composer, performer and programmer, focusing on electronic and electroacoustic music, music for dance and theatre, improvisation and the creation of interactive musical and multimedia systems.
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