- ISMAT - Instituto Superior Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Design, Faculty Memberadd
Place branding is a strategy to bring economic development to a territory. It is a complex, dynamic, and participatory process with a long-term vision that faces challenges such as the consensus between government, citizens and, other... more
Place branding is a strategy to bring economic development to a territory. It is a complex, dynamic, and participatory process with a long-term vision that faces challenges such as the consensus between government, citizens and, other stakeholders around a common purpose. Its constructed with several stages and with the participation of interdisciplinary teams, including designers. This article aims to analyze how design can contribute to place branding from a systemic perspective and using the place branding case study in Mississauga, Canada, as methodology. By crossing the phases of the process with the respective design interventions, it was possible to observe the multiple roles that designers can play with different complexity levels.