The Malmö University DESIS Lab is based at The School of Arts and Communication (K3) and engages both researchers and teachers from different design disciplines engaging with questions of sustainability and social innovation.
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 […]
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
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Does segregation exist in Malmö? And how can it be reduced? These were the questions four students, Simon, Debasmita, Lorenz, and JaeHee asked themselves when collaborating with Listeners Without Borders, a non-profit organization that seeks to bring people together through conversation and listening in a way that empowers people. For the course of Codesign: design […]
To identify ‘Malmö Matters’, or special topics within Malmö of interest or concern, this was the brief for one of the student-groups for the course of Codesign: design participation and democracy. The three students, Erika, Freyja and Tülay, chose the area of Augustenborg as their place of concern, a neighborhood which has unfortunately been negatively […]
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.