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School of Arts and Communication
Arts and Communication
At the School of Arts and Communication (K3), we work with interdisciplinary education and research in media, culture and design. We combine traditional scientific and academic theory with artistic methods and practical elements.
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Education
The School brings together technology and culture. Our students work with new media, design, culture and a wide range of arts. A hallmark of K3 is that we collaborate with companies, organisations and other parties. Our students work with real-life cases through projects and assignments.
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Programme, grundnivå | 180 hpGrafisk design
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Programme, bachelor’s level | 180 creditsInteraction Design
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Programme, grundnivå | 180 hpKulturstudier: Kultur och social förändring
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Programme, grundnivå | 180 hpMedie- och kommunikationsvetenskap: Kritik, handling och gestaltning
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Programme, grundnivå | 180 hpProduktdesign
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Programme, grundnivå | 180 hpVisuell kommunikation
30 augusti 2027 - 9 juni 2030
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Programme, master’s level | 60 creditsCommunication for Development
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Programme, master’s level | 120 creditsCulture and Change - Critical Studies in the Humanities, Master's Programme (Two-Year)
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Programme, master’s level | 60 creditsInteraction Design, Master's Programme (One-Year)
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Programme, master’s level | 120 creditsInteraction Design, Master's Programme (Two-Year)
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Programme, master’s level | 60 creditsMedia and Communication Studies: Culture, Collaborative Media, and Creative Industries, Master's programme (One-Year)
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Programme, master’s level | 120 creditsMedia and Communication Studies: Culture, Collaborative Media, and Creative Industries, Master's programme (Two-Year)
Various start and end dates
Examples from education
Rooms for creative activities
Rooms for creative activities
In the university building called “Orkanen”, our students have access to labs and studios for sound and radio, photography, motion picture, animation and games as well as studios for editorial work, labs and workshops.
Annual exhibition
Annual exhibition
Throughout the year, students at K3 organise exhibitions showcasing their own work. Most notable are the annual degree exhibitions, which take place in May and June. More information about upcoming degree exhibitions will be available in the calendar as the dates approach, and on the programme pages.
Research
K3 attracts researchers in several different disciplines, from design and information technology to media research and cultural sciences. Research projects can involve anything from participant design and physical computing to social media, cartoons and questions about culture and class. Much of the research is done together with external parties.
Research projects
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Research projectFutures in the Making: Ethnographies of GenAI and Digital Creative Work
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Research projectPossible Futures – practices, experiences and anticipations in an environment of digital work technologies within the literary publishing...
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Research projectSensing Sustainable Futures - Embodied Imaginaries through Mixed Reality Performances
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Research projectData Conversations
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Research projectClimate transitions in interaction
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Research projectAcademic policy support of social innovation for sustainable transition
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Research projectForesight through the Doughnut model
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Research projectReflective data practices for sustainable technology design (REDUCE)
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Research projectThe Forbidden Music
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Research projectBelonging under the same sky: participatory design with clouds and weather.
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Research projectInternational Collaboration for Climate Change Action at the frontlines
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Research projectNetworked misogyny in Sweden, Germany and Russia: articulations, intersections and transnational flows
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Research projectLISTEN- Collective listening to communities and spaces as a core capability in planning towards 15- minute suburban Cities
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Research projectFuture Society and Democracy in Europe
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Research projectEvacAware: Real-Time Intelligence for Coordinated Evacuations
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Research projectDesign after Progress: Reimagining Design Histories and Futures
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Research projectPrecariat, Precarity and Precariousness in (Post-) Welfare-State Scandinavian Literatures
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Research projectCountering Oppositional Political Extremism through Attuned Dialogue: Track, Attune, Limit
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Research projectSwedish Riksdag 1867–2022: An Ecosystem of Linked Open Data
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Research projectMoving images in educational design
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Research projectBauhaus of the Seas Sails
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Research projectModern Times 1936
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Research projectTwists of the Smart Body. Biohacking as existential practice
charlotte.sorensen@mau.se
K3 Research Seminars
Programme
The seminars provide an opportunity for both K3’s own researchers and invited guests to come together for presentations and discussions.
Please contact Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt to view the programme
Teachers, researchers and doctoral students
Sara Callahan
Martin Cathcart Fröden
Jakob Friedrich Dittmar
Åsa Harvard Maare
Inger Lindstedt
Ann-Sofi Ljung Svensson
Fredrik Mohammadi Norén
Simon Niedenthal
Research publications
In DiVA, you will find scholarly output by faculty staff and students. It is also the open archive for publications series published by Malmö University.
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2026 | Article in journal
The Haunting Sound of Futures Lost & Found: The Relational Art of Remixing Voyager's Golden Record
Hugo Boothby, Lucy Cathcart Frödén, Erin Cory, Line Henriksen, Bo Reimer, Bojana Romic
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2026 | Chapter in book
Litteratur, klass och etnicitet
Magnus Nilsson
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2026 | Chapter in book
Great Expectations: Network Media Logic and Politics in the Age of Generative AI
Ulrike Klinger, Jakob Svensson
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2026 | Conference paper
Recollecting with Collectives towards Coexistence: A Theoretical Framework for Participatory Design in Times of Climate Crises
Liesbeth Huybrechts, Violeta Tsenova, Li Jönsson, Dolores Van Den Eynde, Anna-Mamusu Sesay Wehlitz, Thomas Binder, Jonas Fritsch, Teresa Palmieri
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2026 | Article in journal
AI for AI: anteriority and interiority for AI inflected immersive dance
Susan Kozel
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2026 | Chapter in book
As fast as matters require: An infrastructural and actor-oriented perspective on changing media protocols in times of war. The case of Sweden in the 1810s
Patrik Lundell
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2026 | Collection (editor)
Histories of Content Reuse in the Periodical Press: Sharing Culture, Virality and Media Transfer from the 17th to the 20th Century
Jimmy Engren, Johan Jarlbrink, Patrik Lundell
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2026 | Chapter in book
Content reuse and sharing in the periodical press: An introduction
Jimmy Engren, Johan Jarlbrink, Patrik Lundell
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2026 | Conference paper
The Legacy of Tommie: On Thomas Hylland Eriksen and ethnographic fiction
Oscar Hemer
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2026 | Article in journal
Into the Unknown: Towards a Monster Pedagogy for Supervision
Line Henriksen
Doctoral studies
The School of Arts and Communication (K3) provides third-cycle education and awards degrees in interaction design and media and communication studies. In order to be admitted to third-cycle education, you need to apply for a vacant position as a doctoral student.
Research centres
Research groups
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Content
RESEARCH GROUPDESIS Lab
The Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability (DESIS) Lab focuses on how design can be used to explore and raise discussions about societal challenges. It does so both through research projects and teaching activities.
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Research group
K3 Heritage Research Group
K3's heritage research group gathers researchers who are interested in diverse aspects of heritage research. Interests ranging from theoretical and conceptual understanding of heritage to questions about users and uses of heritage.
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Content
RESEARCH GROUPMedea Lab
Medea Lab, Malmö University, is a transdisciplinary media lab where researchers and artists address cultural and societal challenges through experiments, installations and interventions.
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Research group
The Child's Best Interest: welfare sector's strategic communication with children
The Convention on the Rights of the Child, including children's digital rights, forms the basis for the activities of the Child's Best Interest environment. Within the environment, there is a strong commitment to developing a child rights-based approach i...
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Research group
The Humanities Research Group
The group consist of researchers from the humanities studying art and culture
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Research group
The Monster Lab
The Monster Lab is a research group where artists and researchers at the School of Arts and Communication, K3, can workshop their monster research and art as well as collaborate on shared publications and research applications.
Networks
The Centre for Modern European Studies
The Centre for Modern European Studies
CEMES explores Europe's political, cultural, and intellectual transformation in recent centuries. The network is a collaboration with Lund University and the University of Copenhagen.
Desis Lab
Desis Lab
The Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability (DESIS) Lab focuses on how design can be used to explore and raise discussions about societal challenges. It does so both through research projects and teaching activities.
Studio residencies
Studio residencies
Iaspis is an international programme for visual and applied artists. Its mission is to work with internationalisation with the aim of increasing and developing contacts between Swedish artists and international institutions and fellow artists.
Research subjects
Collaborate
For K3, it is natural to collaborate with different parties. Many teachers and researchers run their own activities, companies or projects alongside their work. It is natural to involve people outside the university in our study programmes, degree projects, research projects or other types of projects. One exciting example is the IASPIS studio for collaboration with international artists.
Please contact us if you have ideas for collaboration with our students or researchers.
Current students
If you are already studying at School of Arts and Communication, you can find practical information about studying at Malmö University on the Student Web. Information relating to your programme or course is available through Canvas, the University's virtual learning environment, which you can also access via the Student Web.
Contact us
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Patrik Lundell – Professor/Head of department
patrik.lundell@mau.se
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Charlotte Asbjørn Sörensen – Head of unit/Lecturer
Media and Communication
charlotte.sorensen@mau.se
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Helena Ondrus – Unit manager/Senior lecturer
Design
helena.ondrus@mau.se
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Magnus Andersson – Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
Contact for doctoral studies
magnus.andersson@mau.se
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Pille Pruulmann Vengerfeldt – Head of department/Professor
Research Coordinator and Deputy head of department
pille.pruulmann.vengerfeldt@mau.se
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Åsa Harvard Maare – Senior lecturer/Head of unit
Culture
asa.harvard@mau.se
Contact a study administrator
Do you want to get in contact with a study administrator at K3?
Send an e-mail to: k3student@mau.se