For the 1st two launching years, ThRAD was part of a research project, funded by FCT, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, about Drawing and the Portuguese Visual Culture – from the 1950's to the 1990's.
Now is part off a research project, funded by FCT and cofunded by COMPETE, “Design in Portugal (1960-1974): the actions, actors and repercussions of the Art, Industrial Architecture and Industrial Design Nuclei of the National Institute of Industrial Research (I.N.I.I.).”
PTDC/EAT-HAT/121601/2010