Engineering, design and society
PRODS
An umbrella for community-engaged initiatives that connect engineering education with public questions, culture, mobility and collective work.
Programme pageEngineering beyond the lab
Research is one way engineering meets society.
Engineering also grows through encounters with people, places and forms of knowledge outside the laboratory. These initiatives connect students and partners around culture, sustainable mobility and collective action.
Connected initiatives
Engineering practiced in public.
PRODS brings together projects in which students learn by working with artists, cyclists, community groups and public spaces. The result is a broader engineering education, grounded in dialogue, shared responsibility and practical action.
Engineering meets the arts
Hemisférios
A space for encounters between engineering, artistic practice and cultural production, including projects that test what each field can learn from the other.
InstagramSustainable mobility on campus
Bike Week
Workshops, rides, repair activities and public conversations that treat mobility as an engineering, environmental and social question.
InstagramCollective action and practical learning
Mutirões
Collaborative activities organized around shared work, maintenance, making and the practical improvement of common spaces.
InstagramResearch and engagement
A delivery bag that can become a seat.
Bag Sentável responds to a problem reported by platform workers: long waiting periods with nowhere to sit. The project develops a topology-optimized internal frame that can support a seated person while protecting the cargo space. It is co-advised by Josué Labaki and Amasa Carvalho, combining structural design with research on work, wellbeing and equity.
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