For Malmö University research project Living Archives, the end is just the start. The final event was not just a celebration, but a way to continue the dialogue around digitisation, power and the future of archiving. Living Archives was started by a team of researchers from very different fields to explore the challenges of working […]
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När vi tänker på arbetaren ser vi ofta en man i blåställ framför oss. Men arbetarklassen har förändrats på senare år. Vår tids arbetare producerar oftare vård, omsorg och tjänster än industriprodukter och arbetarklassen har gått från att vara mans- till att vara kvinnodominerad. I medierna och i politiska diskussioner dominerar emellertid äldre bilder av […]
How can social media be used to create new norms? Parents of children with disabilities often experience that their understanding of what is considered normal differs from other families’ perceptions. It can be easier to share triumphs and challenges, that may otherwise be difficult to express, in a private Facebook group. In such groups, parents […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
EMBODIED SOUND: Touching the glass stimulates an inner play of sounds and light. K3’s Senior lecturer in tangible interaction design and glassblower, Henrik Svarrer Larsen, together with amongst others former K3 PhD student, Mads Hobye, currently exhibit outcomes of a series of AIRs at the Glass Factory as part of the research initiative DynamicTransparencies. The […]