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Bruna Oliveira
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Undergraduate in Design
Fashion Design
In a compromise between thinking and doing, students explore their creativity and leadership, developing critical skills, manual techniques and digital processes. We challenge the new generation to discover their creative identity, embracing the issues of sustainability and circularity, with a sense of social, economic and environmental responsibility.
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Career Opportunities
- Fashion designer for collection development and graphics
- Product and textile collection designer
- Fashion producer and stylist
- Product manager
- Design researcher
Creative processes and tangible outcomes
Projects
Critical, practice-based and contextual learning
Objectives
- Create dynamic learning environments, enhancing different expressions of identity and modes of action and stimulating critical thinking and autonomy.
- Develop different methodological, reflective and contextual approaches, introducing the debate on different scenarios and actors in the Fashion system.
- Provide laboratory project practice based on drawing and materialization in the studio.
- Cultivate an ethical and critical approach, valuing knowledge of history and heritage and awareness of the challenges for the future.
- Promote civic and design participation attentive to sustainability and local and global dynamics.
Structure, content and learning progression
Curriculum
Semester — 1
Design Fundamentals 75 HC 8 ECTS
Design and Technologies 45 HC 4 ECTS
Drawing I 60 HC 4 ECTS
Interaction Design 45 HC 4 ECTS
Geometry and Projection 30 HC 4 ECTS
Themes of Contemporary Culture 30 HC 3 ECTS
Theory of Perception 30 HC 3 ECTS
Semester — 2
Semester — 3
Semester — 4
Semester — 5
Semester — 6
Electives
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Applications and Admissions
Profile
Dialogue between design, industry and culture
Partnerships
A collaborative approach and a network of dynamic partners ensure the promotion of critical and technological thinking, challenging the limits of conventional thinking. ESAD Fashion Design has established itself as a platform for dialogue between the creative design process, industry, culture and society. Partnerships extend our mission, exploring close relationships with local and national organisations. We intend to continue identifying new initiatives to connect the academic community to new opportunities in the industry.
- Troficolor • Novoli
- Valérius Têxteis
- Câmara Municipal de Matosinhos
- Incubadora da Fábrica de Santo Thyrso
- Museu do Design
- Portugal Fashion
- Citeve
- Lemar
- Tintex
Teaching, practice and research
Faculty
Year 2026–2027
Tuition Fee
Evaluate the possibilities
Scholarships
Enriching lives, opening minds
Erasmus+
Projects, processes and connections with the fashion industry
Fashion Design in Action
Workshops, talks, exhibitions and on-site experiences
Agenda & Events
Undergraduate 2026/2027
Calendar
School Activities
● 1.º semestre · 21.09.2026 — 22.01.2027
● 2.º semestre · 18.02 — 22.06.2027
School closures
● Restauração da Independência · 30.11 — 01.12.2026
● Natal e Ano Novo · 21.12.2026 — 03.01.2027
● Carnaval · 08 — 10.02.2027
● Páscoa · 22 — 29.03.2027
● Queima das Fitas · 03 — 07.05.2027
● Sr. Matosinhos · 18.05.2027 · 12:00 — 12:00
● Corpo de Deus · 27 — 28.05.2027
Assessments
Publication
● 1.º Semestre · 25 — 29.01.2027
● 2.º Semestre · 28.06 — 02.07.2027
Exams
● Época de recurso — 1.º semestre — Inscrição · 01 — 02.02.2027
● Época de recurso — 1.º semestre · 04 — 17.02.2027
● Época de recurso — 2.º semestre — Inscrição · 05 — 06.07.2027
● Época de recurso — 2.º semestre · 12 — 23.07.2027
● Época especial — Inscrição · 02 — 03.09.2027
● Época especial · 06 — 10.09.2027
Special Statutes
● Entrega dos Pedidos de Estatuto de estudantes com necessidades educativas especiais · 23.10.2026 · 09:00 — 09:00
● 1.º Semestre — Entrega dos pedidos de Estatuto de estudante praticante desportivo de alto rendimento ou de Estatuto de estudante-trabalhador · 30.10.2026 · 23:00 — 23:00
● 2.º Semestre — Entrega dos pedidos de Estatuto de estudante praticante desportivo de alto rendimento ou de Estatuto de estudante-trabalhador · 26.02.2027 · 23:00 — 23:00
Change of Class
● 1.º Semestre — Apresentação do pedido de anulação da inscrição · 07.10.2026 · 23:00 — 23:00
● 1.º Semestre — Apresentação de pedidos de mudança de turma · 09.10.2026 · 23:00 — 23:00
● 2.º Semestre — Apresentação de pedidos de mudança de turma · 26.02.2027 · 23:00 — 23:00
● 2.º Semestre — Apresentação do pedido de anulação da inscrição · 26.02.2027 · 23:00 — 23:00
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