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Arts-based Research
Research
Arts-based research at Malmö University has an emphasis on critical and interdisciplinary approaches. Focus is thereby put on performativity and activism, and on methodological and material experimentation. It is a form of artistic research that interweaves creative practice with critical theory formation with the ambition to contribute to knowledge development and societal change.
A profile rather than a specific research area, arts-based research at the School of Arts and Communication, K3, addresses the creative, spatial, material, sensuous, symbolic and political conditioning of knowing and knowledge. Thematic projects allow for the exploration and development of spaces for action, with respect to the technological and social as well as the corporeal and political conditions for creativity.
It is in this respect a form of research that both requires, allows for, and facilitates the instituting of new approaches across existing disciplines and methods. With the combined point of departure in urgent societal topics and artistic challenges, it is research that tries out and questions relationships such as those between art and technology, imaginaries and artefacts, spaces and stories, intimacies and publics.
Artistic research is being conducted within the broad and multifaceted field of design, which also includes media, visual studies, and language and cultural studies. It is also an important element in the cross-disciplinary research education programme. K3 is part of the Iaspis (The Swedish Arts Grants Committee) International Programme for Visual and Applied Artists, having had five international artists in residence.
Researchers, publications and projects

Jonas Andersson

Nicholas Baroncelli Torretta

Christel Brost

Martin Cathcart Fröden
Jakob Friedrich Dittmar

Åsa Harvard Maare
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2025 | Conference paper
Affect in more-than-human design practice: An anecdote-based exploration through dialogue
Daphné Hamilton-Jones, Anna M. Schröder
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2025 | Conference paper
Exploring affective dimensions of the ecological crisis in design: a reflective manifesto writing workshop
Femke Coops, Anna M. Schröder, Daphné Hamilton-Jones
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2025 | Conference paper
Beyond the Surface: Neo-Vernacular Architecture in Sweden and Denmark’s Contemporary Landscape
Birgitte Tanderup Eybye, Marwa Dabaieh
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2025 | Chapter in book
From the Mediterranean to the Nordic: Unveiling the potential ofearth construction in contemporary architecture
Jorge Fernandes, Marwa Dabaieh
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2025 | Conference paper
The Illusion of Heritage: Critiquing Pseudo-Earthen Vernacular Architecture in Qatar
Marwa Dabaieh, Mamdouh Sakr
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2025 | Chapter in book
Salty transformations: Bridging vernacular wisdom to contemporary innovations in salt architecture within the Egyptian context
Marwa Dabaieh, Deena El Mahdy, N.N. Makhlouf, Ahmed Hafez
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2025 | Conference paper
Circular Architecture Meets Circular Economy: A Pilot Experience in Interdisciplinary Teaching for Climate-Neutral Building Practices
Marwa Dabaieh, Rebecka Lundgren
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2025 | Conference paper
CIRCULAR IN, CIRCULAR OUT: APPLYING CIRCULAR DESIGN IN APOP-UP PUBLIC BUILDING IN LUND
Marwa Dabaieh, Anas Lila
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2025 | Conference paper
From Empty Shops to Vibrant Communities: Adaptive Reuse as a Sustainable Response to Retail Decline
Mia Münster, Hanne Kirstine Adriansen
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2025 | Chapter in book
Introduction
Mia Münster, Francesca Murialdo
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Foresight through the Doughnut model
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The Forbidden Music
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LISTEN- Collective listening to communities and spaces as a core capability in planning towards 15- minute suburban Cities
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Design after Progress: Reimagining Design Histories and Futures
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The animate aesthetics of a beach
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The Significance of the Congress for Cultural Freedom for the Cultural Cold War in the Nordic region, 1950-1967
dino.knudsen@mau.se