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Design
To design is to contribute to meaningful changes in the everyday life. Design research at Malmö university, therefore, takes as its point of departure an approach to design of innovative practice in a societal and cultural context.
Design research at the School of Arts and Communication, K3, addresses a broad range of theoretical, critical, and practical questions from a range of perspectives, such as:
- sustainable design
- experimental prototyping
- game design
- collaborative learning
- physical computing
- norm creativity
Together with users and external stakeholder, we develop a responsible, sensitive design research approach which takes issues of ethics and sustainability seriously, while also being technologically advanced and materially experimental.
Interaction design
With interaction design as a main focus, K3 researchers play prominent roles in the international shaping of the discipline, not least when it comes to developing research on and through co-design and participatory design practices.
An important approach has been the setting up of “living labs” experimentally addressing local issues and carrying out research together with different actors throughout the city of Malmö and beyond.
Future-oriented profile
A common starting point is an expanded idea of design as 'agency' rather than 'product oriented', including the wider socio-material context of meaning and future making. Advanced design research across disciplines is today indispensable, not the least in order to enhance the understanding of design as formation not only of functional or desirable artefacts, but also of care services.
Conceptually and methodologically exploratory are geared towards the grand challenges of today. Design research at K3 is therefore is largely carried out within transdisciplinary research platforms, research programmes, and research centres.
Our research is positioned at the international forefront and has attracted attention for its transdisciplinary, participatory and critically future-oriented profile.
Researchers, publications and projects
Researchers
A list of our researchers is due to be listed here.
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2021 | Conference paper
From "Explainable AI" to "Graspable AI"
Maliheh Ghajargar, Jeffrey Bardzell, Alison Smith Renner, Peter Gall Krogh, Kristina Höök, Laurens Boer, David Cuartielles, Wiberg Mikael
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2020 | Report
Weaving knowledge together
Anna Seravalli
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2020 | Article in journal
It matters what designs design designs
Michelle Westerlaken
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2020 | Article in journal
Encountering ethics through design
Anuradha Reddy, Iohanna Nicenboim, James Pierce, Elisa Giaccardi
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2020 | Conference paper
The UX of Interactive Machine Learning
Maliheh Ghajargar, Jan A. Persson, Jeffrey Bardzell, Lars Holmberg, Agnes Tegen
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2020 | Conference paper
Multiverse: Exploring Human Machine Learning Interaction Through Cybertextual Generative Literature
Maliheh Ghajargar, Love Lagerkvist
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2020 | Conference paper
Telling multispecies worlds
Michelle Westerlaken
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2020 | Conference paper
Teaching Values in Design in Higher Education
Wolmet Barendregt, Elisabet M. Nilsson, Daisy Yoo, Rikke Toft Nørgård, Tilde Bekker, Annemiek Veldhuis, Eva Eriksson
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2020 | Conference paper
Knowledge-carrying objects in learning situations
Elin Olander, Charlotte Asbjørn Sörensen, Enes Musa, Sara Andersson, Marielle Sterner
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2020 | Conference paper
A Qualitative Study of the challenges faced by Material Designers when developing DIY-materials
Charlotte Asbjørn Sörensen, Emma Thyni
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Research project
U-YouPa – Understanding Youth Participation and Media literacy in Digital Dialogue Spaces
elisabet.nilsson@mau.se -
Research project | DOCTORAL PROJECT
Mixed Reality in Public Space - Choreography meets Interaction Design
marika.hedemyr@mau.se -
Research project
Norm-creative crisis preparedness – Co-designing methods for supporting crisis preparedness and responses before and during pandemics
elisabet.nilsson@mau.se -
Research project
mHealth in pandemic situations: Smartphone based portable and wearable sensors for COVID-19 diagnostic
sergey.shleev@mau.se -
Research project
Knowing From Somewhere: On Modes and Sites of Knowledge Production with Hacker Communities in the Field of Internet of Things
anuradha.reddy@mau.se -
Research project
Transitioning towards sustainable water and waste management
anna.seravalli@mau.se -
Research project
Value Sensitive Design in Higher Education (VaSE)
elisabet.nilsson@mau.se -
Research project
Grief and hope in transition
kristina.lindstrom@mau.se
Research environments
PhD studies
Malmö University offers PhD studies in Interaction Design.