Hugo Miguel Palmares Leite

Hugo Palmares, natural do Porto, é designer e professor adjunto convidado da Universidade Politécnica do Cávado e do Ave (IPCA). É doutor em Design pela Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto (FBAUP), com bolsa da Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), acolhido pelo Instituto de Investigação em Design, Media e Cultura (ID+). Possui mestrado em Gestão de Design pela Faculdade de Design, Tecnologia e Comunicação (IADE) e pela Escola de Marketing Empresarial (IPAM), e licenciatura em Belas Artes pela FBAUP. Com 15 anos de experiência em design na indústria, em empresas como a Procalçado (Porto) e a Decathlon (Lille), a sua investigação abrange temas como a evolução cultural na indústria, a simbiose entre arte e indústria, os processos tradicionais e inovadores, os métodos de design, a gestão de design e o ensino do design. Ele publicou artigos em conferências de design, revistas científicas e capítulos de livros, e seu trabalho em design e arte foi exibido, entre outros, no Circolo del Design (Turim), na Cité du design (Saint-Étienne) e na Galerie Gauche Beaux-Arts (Paris).

Current positions

  • Invited Adjunct Professor Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave (IPCA)

PhD Details

  • Title (r)Evolução da Cultura de Design na Indústria: Cocriação da ferramenta Design Culture Toolkit enquanto interface para impacto cultural no contexto empresarial português
  • Field Design and Industry
  • Year 2024

Research Groups

Collaborator

Publications

Book chapters
  • Palmares, H., Terroso, M., & Costa, E. (2024). Design Culture Perception: Diagnosis of Knowledge and Vision of Traditional and Innovative Industries in Portugal. In Martins, N., Brandão, D., & Fernandes-Marcos, A. (Eds) Perspectives on Design and Digital Communication IV, 91–111. Springer Series in Design and Innovation , vol 33. Springer, Cham. Link
  • Palmares, H., Terroso, M., & Costa, E. (2023). Design Culture Ladder: Creation of a Diagnosis Tool to Evolve Industry. In Martins, N., & Brandão, D. (Eds) Advances in Design and Digital Communication III, 523–535. Springer Series in Design and Innovation , vol 27. Springer, Cham. Link
  • Palmares, H., Terroso, M., & Costa, E. (2022). Inter ‘Face-To-Face’: Remote Co-creation for an Artifact. In Martins, N. & Brandão, D. (Eds) Advances in Design and Digital Communication II, 387–396. Springer Series in Design and Innovation , vol 19. Springer, Cham. Link
  • Terroso, M., Moreno, A., Amorim, N., Palmares, H., & Sampaio, J. (2018). Immersive Business Simulation in Footwear Design Education: A bridge for reality. In Broega et al. (Eds) Reverse Design: A Current Scientific Vision From the International Fashion and Design Congress, 497–505. CRC Press, Taylors & Francis ISBN 978-1-138-37011-1 Link
International journals
  • Terroso, M., Moreno, A., Palmares, H., Pinto, J., Matos, D., Sampaio, J. (2019). Focus on process and outcome in footwear design education, in Procedia CIRP , Elsevier B.V. Link
International conferences
  • Palmares, H., Terroso, M., & Costa, E. (2022). Design Culture Ladder: Creation of a Diagnosis Tool to Evolve Industry. Conference Proceedings DIGICOM 2022 – 6th International Conference on Design and Digital Communication, November 3th-5th 2022, Barcelos, Portugal. Link
  • Fernandes A., Kosztyła A., Casteião A., Mergener D., Morais E., Alvelos H., Palmares H., Martins I., Lopes L., Rosa M., Rebelo A., Zanini M., Lopes P., & Mourão S. (2022). Doctoral Side Effects: Damage Limitation Versus Unexpected Benefits to PhD Research in a Pandemic. The European Conference on Arts, Design & Education – ECADE 2022 Conference Proceedings, July 7th-10th 2022, Porto, Portugal. Link
  • Palmares, H., Terroso, M., & Costa, E. (2021). Inter ‘Face-To-Face’: Remote Co-creation for an Artifact. Conference Proceedings DIGICOM 2021 – 5th International Conference on Design and Digital Communication, November 4th-6th 2021, Barcelos, Portugal. Link
  • Terroso, M., Moreno, A., Amorim, N., Palmares, H., & Sampaio, J. (2018). Immersive Business Simulation in Footwear Design Education: A Bridge for Reality. Conference Proceedings CIMODE 2018 Madrid – 4th International Fashion and Design Congress, May 2018, Madrid, Spain.
National conferences
  • Palmares, H., Terroso, M., & Costa, E. D. (2022). Perceção da cultura de design na indústria do calçado em Portugal: Agentes de transferência de conhecimento e de visão. Presented at the V Encontro Indústria, História, Património, Museu de Lanifícios da Universidade da Beira Interior, April 7th-8th 2022, Covilhã, Portugal. Link
Other publications
  • Marsden, R., Huoviala, A., Siipola, V., Pereira, J. B., & Palmares, H. (2023). A Model for Multiplicity; Sustainable Footwear Futures. Poster Presentation, 2nd Design Factory Global Network Research Conference: “Contributions for Designing Multiplicity”. Ankara, Turkey, October 5th-6th, 2023. Link
  • Palmares, H. (2023). (r)Evolution of the design culture in the Portuguese footwear industry: Toolkit as an interface for diagnosis, prescription, verification and validation. In Alvelos et al. (Eds) Posters of a Doctorate. PhD Design 2016_2023 +, 60–61. Doctor Tiger, vol 5. Porto: ID+ Instituto de Investigação em Design, Media e Cultura. Link
  • Palmares, H. (2021). O sentido das coisas. In Alvelos et al. (Eds) Tigers in Zoom Cages: tips and testimonies on advancing doctoral research in a pandemic, 35–38. Doctor Tiger, vol 4. Porto: ID+ Instituto de Investigação em Design, Media e Cultura. Link
  • Palmares, H. (2021). Evolution of the design culture in the Portuguese footwear industry: Co-creation of a toolkit as an interface for diagnosis, prescription, verification and validation. In Abstracts Booklet of the RUN-EU General Assembly – European Innovation Hub Online Conference, Ireland (Limerick, Thurles and Athlone), November 3rd, 2021. Link
  • Palmares, H. (2021). (r)Evolution of the design culture in the Portuguese footwear industry: Toolkit as an interface for diagnosis, prescription, verification and validation. Poster Presentation, Ciência 2021 – Encontro com a Ciência e Tecnologia em Portugal. Lisbon, Portugal. Link

Scientific, artistic and cultural production

Technical work
  • Palmares, H. (2023). Reviewer of one article for the journal Textile & Leather Review, idd3, Croatia. December.
Scientific events organization
  • Palmares, H. (2022). Moderator in the onsite parallel sessions “Strategies for Promoting Creative Thinking” and “Design and New Media”, at the ECADE 2022 Conference – The European Conference on Arts, Design & Education. July 8th-9th 2022, Porto, Portugal.
  • Alvelos, H., Kosztyla, A., Fernandes, A., Rebelo, A. M., Casteião, A., Mergener, D., Palmares, H., Lopes, L., Brasil, M., Fragoso, P. & Brandão, R. – Organizing Committee (2021). Doctoral Side Effects – Let’s talk about doing a PhD during a pandemic. 21st May 2021. Porto, Portugal. https://bit.ly/2Q_BhI1m
Other relevant cultural production
  • Palmares, H. (2023). Poster at the collective exhibition UD23 Posters of a Doctorate, curated by Heitor Alvelos et al. Museu da Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto, Portugal. September 25th-29th, 2023.
  • Palmares, H. (2022). Installation at the collective exhibition FUSION Creative Europe, curated by Rui Effe. Antiga Casa do Vinho, Barcelos, Portugal. September 27th-October 7th, 2022.
  • Palmares, H. (2022). Prevent Your Walking Issues [Installation] at the collective exhibition FUSION. Circolo del Design, Turin, Italy. May 25th-June 9th, 2022.
Other scientific activity spreading actions
  • Palmares, H. (2023). Talk “Cultura de Design, de Inovação e de Sustentabilidade na Indústria do Calçado: Práticas e futuro”, integrated into the BioShoes4All project, Centro Tecnológico do Calçado de Portugal (CTCP), São João da Madeira, Portugal. July 19th, 2023.
  • Palmares, H. (2023). Talk “Design Culture & Industry: Empirical research through design”, integrated into the Research Challenge Design ID+ (Short Advanced Programme), RUN-EU, IPCA, Barcelos, Portugal. July 13th, 2023.
  • Palmares, H. (2023). Talk “Cultura de Design, de Inovação e de Sustentabilidade na Indústria do Calçado: Práticas e futuro”, integrated into the BioShoes4All project, Centro Tecnológico do Calçado de Portugal (CTCP), Felgueiras, Portugal. July 6th, 2023.
  • Palmares, H. (2023). Talk “Cultura de Design e de Inovação: Mediar processos de cocriação entre universidade-indústria”, in the class Laboratório de Gestão de Projetos – LGP (with a master’s degrees in Engineering, Software, and Multimedia, FEUP and FBAUP), Porto, Portugal. April 14th, 2023.
  • Palmares, H. (2022). Talk “Perceção da Cultura Empresarial: Ferramenta de diagnóstico”, in the class Laboratório de Gestão de Projetos – LGP (with a master’s degrees in Engineering and Software, FEUP and FBAUP), Porto, Portugal. May 27th, 2022.
  • Palmares, H. (2022). Workshop “Design Management: a view from industry” (with a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design, IPCA), Barcelos, Portugal. May 5th-12th, 2022.
  • Palmares, H. (2022). Workshop “Back to the Future”, integrated into the FUSION project (with a master’s degree in Product Design and Development, IPCA), Barcelos, Portugal. March 31st, 2022.