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Na GUDA – Give U Design Art, estruturamos a nossa oferta em quatro eixos estratégicos que traduzem a nossa visão de um design participativo, transformacional e orientado para a sustentabilidade. Cada eixo integra um conjunto de serviços especializados, desenhados para responder a desafios complexos, potenciar a inovação e criar impacto real em organizações, territórios e comunidades.

At GUDA – Give U Design Art, we structure our offer into four strategic pillars that embody our vision of participatory, transformational, and sustainability-driven design. Each pillar integrates a set of specialised services designed to address complex challenges, foster innovation, and create real impact in organisations, territories, and communities.

Designing Territorial Transitions

Apoiamos territórios na transição para modelos mais sustentáveis, inclusivos e inovadores, articulando dimensões sociais, comunitárias e baseadas na natureza. Trabalhamos para desenvolver ecossistemas de inovação territorial, fortalecer identidades coletivas e criar soluções que aumentem o valor económico, social e ambiental de cada lugar.


Serviços:

  • Participatory Territorial Branding – Estratégias de branding territorial com participação ativa da comunidade.

  • Developing Territorial Innovation Ecosystems – Criação de redes colaborativas para a inovação local.

  • Developing Territorial Entrepreneurs – Capacitação de empreendedores alinhados com a identidade territorial.

  • Creating City Chief Design Officers – Implementação de funções estratégicas de liderança em design para cidades.

We support territories in their transition towards more sustainable, inclusive, and innovative models, combining social, community, and nature-based dimensions. We work to develop territorial innovation ecosystems, strengthen collective identities, and create solutions that increase the economic, social, and environmental value of each place.


Services:

  • Participatory Territorial Branding – Community-driven territorial branding strategies.

  • Developing Territorial Innovation Ecosystems – Building collaborative networks for local innovation.

  • Developing Territorial Entrepreneurs – Empowering entrepreneurs aligned with territorial identity.

  • Creating City Chief Design Officers – Implementing strategic design leadership roles for cities.

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Designing Innovation Transitions

Transformamos organizações em ecossistemas inovadores, ágeis e colaborativos. Criamos culturas de inovação que alinham pessoas, processos e estratégias, fomentando a criatividade, a adaptabilidade e a relevância no mercado.


Serviços:

  • Creating Organizational Innovation Culture – Desenvolvimento de culturas organizacionais orientadas para a inovação.

  • Creating Innovation Business Ecosystems – Ligação de empresas estabelecidas e startups para gerar inovação híbrida.

  • Implementing Innovation Culture for Business Strategy – Integração da inovação como pilar estratégico.

  • Open Innovation Hackathons – Eventos colaborativos para resolver desafios e gerar novas ideias.

We transform organisations into innovative, agile, and collaborative ecosystems. We build innovation cultures that align people, processes, and strategies, fostering creativity, adaptability, and market relevance.


Services:

  • Creating Organizational Innovation Culture – Developing organisational cultures focused on innovation.

  • Creating Innovation Business Ecosystems – Connecting established companies and startups for hybrid innovation.

  • Implementing Innovation Culture for Business Strategy – Embedding innovation as a strategic pillar.

  • Open Innovation Hackathons – Collaborative events to address challenges and generate new ideas.

     

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Designing Circular Transitions

Apoiamos a transição para modelos circulares, regenerativos e sustentáveis. Aplicamos princípios de economia circular a produtos, serviços, processos e ecossistemas para maximizar eficiência de recursos e gerar impacto positivo.


Serviços:

  • Circular Design Projects – Projetos de design centrados na circularidade e regeneração.

  • Re-designing the Organization for Circularity – Reconfiguração de processos e modelos de negócio para a circularidade.

  • Designing Circular Ecosystems – Criação de ecossistemas colaborativos e cadeias de valor circulares.

  • Circularity Hackathons – Hackathons focados na transição circular.

We support the transition towards circular, regenerative, and sustainable models. We apply circular economy principles to products, services, processes, and ecosystems to maximise resource efficiency and deliver positive impact.


Services:

  • Circular Design Projects – Design projects focused on circularity and regeneration.

  • Re-designing the Organization for Circularity – Reconfiguring processes and business models for circularity.

  • Designing Circular Ecosystems – Creating collaborative ecosystems and circular value chains.

  • Circularity Hackathons – Hackathons dedicated to circular transition.

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Creating City Chief Design Officers

Ajudamos organizações e territórios a antecipar mudanças e preparar-se para cenários emergentes, explorando futuros possíveis, prováveis e desejáveis através de metodologias de design especulativo e prospetivo.


Serviços:

  • Future Scenarios based Projects – Projetos de design assentes em cenários futuros.

  • Future Scenarios for Business Strategy – Construção de cenários para estratégias empresariais.

  • Future Scenarios for Business Ecosystems – Integração de cenários futuros no planeamento de ecossistemas empresariais.

  • Future Scenarios Hackathons – Hackathons de futuros para enfrentar desafios emergentes.

We help organisations and territories anticipate change and prepare for emerging scenarios, exploring possible, probable, and desirable futures through speculative and foresight design methodologies.


Services:

  • Future Scenarios based Projects – Design projects grounded in future scenarios.

  • Future Scenarios for Business Strategy – Scenario building for business strategies.

  • Future Scenarios for Business Ecosystems – Integrating future scenarios into ecosystem planning.

  • Future Scenarios Hackathons – Futures hackathons to address emerging challenges.

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"We need to re-charge and re-orient our innovation focus and efforts. We need to center our approaches and processes to more humanity & planet centered one’s. We need to go back to more genuine and purpose-driven innovation drawing on more profound participatory models of engagement - from People-with-Nature. Beyond calling for co-creation, we need to inspire and empower citizens to (re)-discover our world, including the endless opportunities that flow from Nature, including Nature-Based Solutions, and contribute to fulfill the promise of an emergent Nature Positive economy"  Américo & Susana

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