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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 stakeholders, we develop a responsible, sensitive design research approach that takes issues of ethics and sustainability seriously, while also being technologically advanced and materially experimental.
Interaction design
With interaction design as the main focus, K3 researchers play prominent roles in the international shaping of the discipline, not least when 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 typical starting point is an expanded idea of design as 'agency' rather than 'product oriented', including the broader socio-material context of meaning and future-making. Advanced design research across disciplines is indispensable today, not the least to enhance the understanding of design as the formation of functional or desirable artefacts and care services.
Conceptually and methodologically exploratory are geared toward the grand challenges of today. Design research at K3 is therefore primarily 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
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Staff
Alberto Enrique Alvarez Uribe - Doctoral student
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Charlotte Asbjørn Sörensen - Manager
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Dennis Augustsson - Senior lecturer
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Emilia Bergmark - Lecturer
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SBStaff
Suzan Boztepe - Senior lecturer
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DCStaff
David Cuartielles - Lecturer
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Staff
Elizabeth Fox - Lecturer
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Daniel Gaffner - Lecturer
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Mareike Glöss - Senior lecturer
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Sara Gottschalk - Lecturer
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Ylva Grufstedt - Senior lecturer
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Anne-Marie Hansen - Senior lecturer
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Åsa Harvard Maare - Senior lecturer
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Marika Hedemyr - Doctoral student
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Maria Hellström Reimer - Professor
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Clint Heyer - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
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PHStaff
Per-Anders Hillgren - Professor
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Li Jönsson - Associate senior lecturer
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Susan Kozel - Professor
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HLStaff
Henrik Svarrer Larsen - Senior lecturer
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PLStaff
Per Linde - Head of unit/Senior lecturer
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Kristina Lindström - Senior lecturer
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Elisabet M. Nilsson - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
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LRStaff
Lizette Reitsma - Associate senior lecturer
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Staff
Juliana Restrepo Giraldo - Doctoral student
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RRStaff
Roel Roscam Abbing - Doctoral student
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Staff
Dario Salvi - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
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SSStaff
Staffan Schmidt - Senior lecturer
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Anna Seravalli - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
anna.seravalli@mau.se
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2022 | Conference paper
Rethinking the Public Sector : Design storytelling as a catalyst for organizational transformation
Suzan Boztepe
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2022 | Conference paper
Redesigning the curriculum : A participatory design approach
Suzan Boztepe
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2022 | Chapter in book
An Emerging Posthumanist Design Landscape
Thomas Laurien, Li Jönsson, Petra Lilja, Kristina Lindström, Erik Sandelin, Åsa Ståhl
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2022 | Conference paper
Designing transformative futures
Ann Light, Collin M Gray, Kristina Lindström, Laura Forlano, Dan Lockton, Chris Speed
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2022 | Conference paper
Making Sense/zines: Reflecting on positionality
Lizette Reitsma
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2022 | Conference paper
Making AI Understandable by Making it Tangible: Exploring the Design Space with Ten Concept Cards
Maliheh Ghajargar, Jaffrey Bardzell
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2022 | Conference paper
Reworlding: Participatory Design Capabilities to Tackle Socio-Environmental Challenges
Liesbeth Huybrechts, Mela Zuljevic, Oswald Devisch, Virginia Tassinari, Anna Seravalli, Ann Light, Seppe De Blust, Antoniadis Panagiotis, Chiara Bassetti, Nicola Bidwell, Maurizio Teli, Cristiano Storni, Gabriela Avram, Mark Marshall, Filip Majetic, Joachim Declerck
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2022 | Conference paper
Expanding Learning in Participatory Design: Mapping the Field of Learning Theory and Practice in PD
Mette Agger Eriksen, Seppe De Blust, Oswald Devish, Christian Dindler, Carl DiSalvo, Anna Seravalli, Majken Toftager Larsen
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2022 | Conference paper
PDC Place Nordic: participatory design in/for the digitalization of public services
Amalia de Götzen, Justyna Starostka, Joanna Saad-Sulonen, Nils Ehrenberg, Per Linde
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2022 | Conference paper
PDC Place Malaysia: Emerging Spaces for ICT4D and PD Communities
Tariq Zaman, Gary Loh Chee Wyai, Khairuddin Ab Hamid, Alan Ting Huong Yong, Lizette Reitsma
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Research project
Digital Emergency Communication (DIGeMERGE)
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Research project
Teaching for more-than-human values in design in higher education (MOVA)
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Research project
The dwelling as locus for all stages in life, on accessibility and usability in future-oriented housing for all of the 2030s
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Research project
Working life during the Covid-19 pandemic: social participation, learning experiences, design opportunities and future work life for people...
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Research project
Workers as Agents of a Green and Just Transition. A real-life experiment in Sweden and Spain
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Research project
U-YouPa – Understanding Youth Participation and Media literacy in Digital Dialogue Spaces
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Research project
Knowing From Somewhere: On Modes and Sites of Knowledge Production with Hacker Communities in the Field of Internet of Things
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Research project
Grief and hope in transition
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Research project | DOCTORAL PROJECT
Mixed Reality in Public Space - Choreography meets Interaction Design
marika.hedemyr@mau.se
Research environments
PhD studies
Malmö University offers PhD studies in Interaction Design.