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Education Events K3 Students

Welcome to a Design Thing!

The students and teachers of the Co-Design course invite you to a Design Thing about city making and democracy A “Design Thing” is a hybrid of a democratic parliament and an experimental laboratory where participants collaboratively “make” decisions through exploring  matters of concern. 8th of November 9.00-12.00 STORM, Malmö University. RSVP 2nd November to anna.seravalli@mah.se […]

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Education K3 Staff

What has it meant to be a collective designer (co-designer) during the last 100 years?

A series of lectures by Pelle Ehn (professor emeritus at K3 The School of Arts and Communication) that overview 100 years of (collective) design out from the Scandinavian Participatory Design tradition. https://medium.com/@medea/design-democracy-and-participation-exploring-the-scandinavian-participatory-design-tradition-67dda92ba675  

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K3 Students

Co-designing Malmö’s parking lots

While taking the course Co-design — Design, Participation, Democracy, five students dedicated themselves to exploring the topic of urban public spaces in Malmö. Camila Mahzouni, Manuel Siegel, Szymon Sulka, Kamila Wnorowska, and Hyejoo Yoo looked at what public spaces are, how participation within these spaces works, and, crucially, what citizens expect them to be like. […]

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Research

Reflecting on design, sustainability and social change #2

Malmö University DESIS Lab and MEDEA are producing a series of short interviews with design practitioners and researchers to explore if and how design can contribute to sustainability and social change in different contexts. This second interview is with Yanki Lee  a social designer, design researcher and activist that has spent the past 20 years in […]

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K3 Staff Research

Reflecting on design, sustainability and social change

Malmö University DESIS Lab and MEDEA are producing a series of short interviews with design practitioners and researchers to explore if and how design can contribute to sustainability and social change in different contexts. The first interview is with Sreejata Roy and Mrityunjay Chatterje, a two member team of an artist and a media practitioner based […]

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Education

Welcome to a Design Thing on Democracy and the City

The students and teachers of the course in Co-Design would like to invite you to a Design Thing, an event to debate and imagine together how to create a more inclusive and sustainable Malmö. The Design Thing will be held on the 2nd of November between 9.00 and 12.00 at STORM (Malmö University Gäddan  Cittadelvägen […]

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Research

Making commons work

Malmö University DESIS Lab and MEDEA are co-producing a serie of podcasts to present and discuss research about design, sustainability and social innovation. This first episode is focusing on commons and commoning in design research and it features  design researchers Bianca Elzebaumer and Anna Seravalli.