This poster was developed based on supervisors and their connections with the PhD students. The visualisation was commissioned by the team of the DesignOBS project (Towards a Design Observatory in Portugal, www.designobs.pt), following a distributed and participatory approach. The dataset used to create this work is available here: Costa, N., Branco, V., Costa, R., Borges, A., Cunca, R., Modesto, A., & Silva, A.C. (2020). Design doctorates undertaken in Portugal (Version 2) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4559415 Work developed within the project: Design Obs. Towards a Design Observatory: models, instruments, representations and strategies. Supported by the Lisbon Regional Operational Programme (Lisboa 2020) and the Competitiveness and Internationalisation Operational Programme (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-032445), under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement, through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology.