In Portugal, it´s a National Strategy, the innovation in teaching , the connection between Faculties and Research Center, being a social and academic responsibility, to the good training and qualification of students, becoming a motivating factor extra for the performance of their academic work and better preparation for working life. The new materials and the technological systems, the evaluation of the programmatic contents, increasing the attention to teaching materials in design, offered by the Faculties of design, is an activity in constant update, forcing a better preparation of the contents taught in 1st cycle studies. This is proved by the actual situation promote by the pandemic of COVID19. Professors and Students are learning news ways to complete the academic year. The teaching of design in Portugal has undergone changes at several levels and this way will be contextualized the current Teaching and its fragilities already identified by professors of Design in the first 3 years of Design. The research team consider that it is extremely important to carry out a survey for students of 1st cycle of design courses, and to their teachers, on their approach with materials, research and practical work, as well as the relationship of practice with the theory given by the teachers. That way, we present the results of surveys conducted to design students and conclusions about the research strategy.
Alexandra Carreiras Luís is an architect and works in the communication department of the Lisbon School of Architecture – University of Lisbon. Currently, she is developing a PhD in Design at the same university, with a theme of aterials and technologies for teaching design. He was a fellow at CIAUD – Center for Research in Architecture, Urbanism and Design between October 2015 and November 2018. Between October 2013 and January 2015 she had doing a Pos-graduation in Architecture of contemporary metropolitan territories at ISCTE, under the guidance of Professor Paulo Tormenta Pinto.