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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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Events K3 Staff

The Virtual Reality Hype

Virtual reality is celebrated as the ultimate medium for storytelling. Some even say that virtual reality can make you feel empathy in ways that no other media could. In this episode of Medea Vox, we gather three media scholars to discuss the concepts of augmented and virtual reality. Should we believe the hype? This is […]

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Events Research

The New Human Symposium 30.8.2016

Moderna Museet Malmö and Malmö University (Medea and K3) welcome you to THE NEW HUMAN SYMPOSIUM, in which the invited speakers Patricia MacCormack, Sverre Raffnsøe, Susan Kozel, and Ursula Mayer will give us further insights into the times we live in, and towards what future we might be heading. In connection to the symposium, Moderna […]

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K3 PhD Students

On Lifelogging and the Quantified Self

We’ve all heard about the Fitbits, GoPros, sleep apps and other digital trackers that create data points out of our everyday activities. But how did people self-archive before the digital? What does the era of digital storage do to our concepts of identity and self-representation? Listen to the new episode of Medea Vox with K3 PhD […]

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K3 Staff Research

Feeling at Home with Internet of Things

New episode of Medea Vox is out. Clint Heyer, Anuradha Reddy and David Cuartielles discuss what a “smart” home is—and what new ways of being together the Internet of Things will enable. Clint, Anurdha and David are all part of the research project IoTaP, internet of things and people, at Malmö University.

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Events K3 Staff Research

Vox Talk: Eat Your Plastic-Munching Pests (It’s All In Your Head)

Don’t miss Vox Talk by Medea. In the latest talk Kristina Lindström and Åsa Ståhl discuss how plastic-eating worms might influence how we will live with plastics, and what it’s like to eat worms. You can also listen to previous talks about extreme communication and why reading books is (not) important.