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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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2024 | Conference paper
Empowering Immigrants to Enter the Swedish Job Market: Participatory Action Design Research (PADR) for Experiential and Challenge-Based Learning
Dipak Surie
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2024 | Conference paper
More-than-Human Participatory Approaches for Design: Method and Function in Making Relations
Ann Light
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2024 | Conference paper
Design Haunted by Progress: Untying Knots
Kristina Lindström, Li Jönsson, Åsa Ståhl, Maria Göransdotter, Thomas Laurien
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2024 | Conference paper
Pluriverse design - Meet your buddy through scents
Yulu Zhang
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2024 | Conference paper
Reorientations: Practicing Grief and Hope in Post-Carbon Futures
Kristina Lindström, Li Jönsson, Per-Anders Hillgren
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2024 | Article in journal
Navigating Problematic Bauhaus Inheritances: Critiques, Implications, and Questions from the Bauhaus of the Seas NEB Lighthouse
Nicholas B. Torretta, Mariana Pestana, Frederico Duarte, Cristiano Predroso-Roussado, Luisa Metelo Seixas, Valentina Nisi, Nuno Jardim Nunes
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2024 | Conference paper
Ten Permissions for Facilitating (Live) Design Activities
Kristina Höök, Kristina Andersen, Susan Kozel
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2024 | Conference paper
Teaching for More-than-human Perspectives in Design – A Pedagogical Pattern Mining Workshop
Elisabet M. Nilsson, Anne-Marie Hansen, Daisy Yoo, Tilde Bekker, Rikke Hagensby Jensen, Eva Eriksson
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2024 | Article in journal
Enacting Entanglement: CreaTures, Socio-Technical Collaboration and Designing a Transformative Ethos
Ann Light, Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Lara Houston, Andrea Botero
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2024 | Article in journal
Reorienting Design Towards a Decolonial Ethos: Exploring Directions for Decolonial Design
Nicholas B. Torretta, Brendon Clark, Johan Redström
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Research project
Reflective data practices for sustainable technology design (REDUCE)
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Design after Progress: Reimagining Design Histories and Futures
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Bauhaus of the Seas Sails
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Digital Emergency Communication (DIGeMERGE)
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The animate aesthetics of a beach
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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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Teaching for more-than-human values in design in higher education (MOVA)
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Working life during the Covid-19 pandemic: social participation, learning experiences, design opportunities and future work life for people...
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Workers as Agents of a Green and Just Transition. A real-life experiment in Sweden and Spain
anna.seravalli@mau.se
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Doctoral studies in Interaction Design
Malmö University offers doctoral studies in Interaction Design.
Interaction Design is a subject within the design sciences that explores how designed systems, processes, artefacts can shape our world. This programme cultivates both practical and theoretical expertise, with an emphasis on integrating design practices with critical reflection.
Contact for doctoral studies in Interaction Design: Tina Askanius