Associate professor Jakob Svensson has just started new research project, funded by Vetenskapsrådet, about algorithms and how they influence our media flow. The project will explore the cultural and social aspects that enclose the algorithms. Read more at mau.se. Jakob is also the cowriter to the newly published article Mobile phones in the transformation of the informal economy: […]
Malmö University has interviewed Professor Oscar Hemer about his research and latest book project about Jorge Luis Borges.
Professor Magnus Nilsson is from February Pro Dean for the Faculty of Culture and Society. Congratulation! Malmö University has interviewed Magnus about his latest anthology Working-Class Literature(s): Historical and International Perspectives and co-edited with John Lennon (University of South Florida). Read and/or download the anthology here.
During February Product Design students (2nd year) are showing their projects from the course Material Driven Design at Form/Design Center in Malmö. The work has been divided into three main groups: DIY, Do-It-Yourself: this group has explored new uses for textile residues that had otherwise ended up in landfills in the Global South. CIY, Cook-It-Yourself: […]
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 […]
Professor Magnus Nilsson is the co-editor to the new book Working-Class Literature(s). Read more about the book. The aim of this collection is to make possible the forging of a more robust, politically useful, and theoretically elaborate understanding of working-class literature(s). These essays map a substantial terrain: the history of working-class literature(s) in Russia/The Soviet […]
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As You Go – Exhibition
Students from the course Den fotografiska bilden/The photographic image are showing their projects at the forth floor of Niagara. The exhibition will be open until December 22.
This week the students from the course Character Design exhibited their projects in the K3 workshop.
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Pop-up Idea Store
Yanki Lee, guest researcher at K3, will as a part of the AFM network do a full day workshop at the bottom floor at Niagara the 11th of December. The workshop allow participants to “drop in” (approximately 20-30 minutes) and it relates to immersion techniques and design for our “future selves”. The day after, 12th of December, we will follow […]
Download full-text of Para-Archives: Rethinking Personal Archiving Practices in the Times of Capture Culture by Jacec Smolicki here. The public defence will take place on Friday 15 December at 13:15 in auditorium B (B0E07) at Niagara. This study explores possibilities for alternative forms for personal archiving in the context of contemporary techno-culture and dominant forms of capturing […]