Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) has granted Ann-Sofi Ljung Svensson, senior lecturer in Literature Studies, funds for the research project Back to the Homestead: The Idyll as Critical and Aesthetic Discourse in Swedish Literature/Hem till gården. Idyllens ideologi och estetik i ett svenskt litterärt och populärkulturellt perspektiv. ”Hem till gården. Idyllens ideologi och estetik i ett svenskt litterärt […]
Category: Research
The Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) has granted Kristina Lindström, senior lecturer in Product Design), and Åsa Ståhl, Linnéuniveristy fund for the research project Un/making Matters – maintenance, repair and composting. The purpose with Un/making Matters is to explore and develop an emerging design space that offers alternatives to the productivist and anthropocentric thinking and making that […]
New article by Tina Askanius, senior lecturer in Media and Communication Studies, in the upcoming issue of European Journal of Cultural Studies. Engaging with The Bridge: Cultural citizenship, cross-border identities and audiences as ‘regionauts’ This article explores civic engagement with the Danish/Swedish crime series The Bridge (Danmarks Radio/Sveriges Television 2011–) based on qualitative interviews […]
New article by professor Maria Hellström Reimer in the latest issue of Architecture and Culture. Playing the Green Card – The Commodifying Fiction of a Derivative Jardin-Forêt With the point of departure in the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) – site François Mitterand (Dominique Perrault, 1989–95) and more specifically its central but inaccessible jardin-forêt, this […]
New article by Anna Seravalli, Mette Agger Ericsen and Per-Anders Hillgren have been publiched in CoDesign- International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts. Co-Design in co-production processes: jointly articulating and appropriating infrastructuring and commoning with civil servants Anna, Mette and Per-Anders have been part of the research project URB@exp during the last years. About […]
Categories
Home at the Crossroads – Open Seminar
Welcome to open Seminar in collaboration between Freeman’s and the Conviviality at the Crossroads network at Malmö University June 7 2017, 13-18. Venue: B2, Niagara, ground floor, Nordenskiöldsgatan 1 Read more about the seminar here.
Categories
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.
Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability (DESIS) Lab at Malmö University is hosted by K3. The Lab focuses on how design can be used to explore and raise discussions about societal challenges and it does so both through research projects and teaching activities. The Lab is part of the international DESIS network that includes design […]
New R3PAIR Volume of Continent launched at the Maintainers conference at Stevens Institute of Technology in New York. The volume contains: Bugs in the War Room, by Linda Hilfling Ritasdatter, PhD Student at K3 Plastic Imaginaries: The ragpicker meets the composter, by Kristina Lindström, senior lecturer at K3, and Åsa Ståhl, completed her PhD at K3.
New book Designing for Service: Key Issues and New Directions with chapter by Anna Seravalli and Mette Agger Eriksen. Beyond collaborative services: Service design for sharing and collaboration as a matter of commons and infrastructuring The notion of collaborative service was firstly used by Jegou and Manzini in 2008 to discuss how services based on […]