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Consortiums Open Doors
Four consortiums in the fields of textile, fashion, furniture and strategic design form the setting for a collaboration of design researchers, research institutions and companies. The consortiums generate synergy and valuable networks and promote the exchange of knowledge and ideas with the business sector. For example, the Textile Consortium has opened new doors for Vibeke Riisberg, associate professor at Designskolen Kolding. She sees the consortium setup as a helpful framework for the exchange of knowledge and the communication of Danish and international textile research to industry, designers and the educational institutions. A common feature for all four consortiums is that they are helping to upgrade their field and generate innovation.
17 February 2010
Design Creates the Future
Design is a change-oriented discipline. Based on knowledge from design research about the way in which culture and individuals adopt change, designers can create the future-oriented solutions that society needs. In this interview Peter Gall Krogh, recently appointed design professor at the Aarhus School of Architecture, talks about the role of design research for the potential of the design discipline to affirm as well as transform values.
17 February 2010
Anchoring Innovation
Strategic design can be used to enhance a company’s focus on its innovation processes. New research shows that it is worthwhile to examine how the development process begins, and how it is anchored strategically in the company’s organisation. Interview with designer Brett Patching about his ongoing Ph.D. project at the Aarhus School of Architecture.
17 February 2010
Editorial: Design Research - a Catalyst for Innovation
In the first issue of Mind Design in 2010, Director Dorthe Mejlhede takes stock of the activities in the Danish Centre for Design Research in 2009 and of the platform that the centre has created for current and future design research. Design research can act as a catalyst for innovation and as a source of value creation for companies and for society at large. That is why it is so important to continue to expand and support the design research environment, Dorthe Mejlhede points out.
19 January 2010
Using Creativity to Enhance Consumer Awareness
With the aid of two Ph.D. projects, the Danish savings bank Middelfart Sparekasse has undergone an organisational development process focused on human values and staff self-management. Now, the bank’s third Industrial Ph.D. scholar, Kirsten Bonde Sørensen from Kolding School of Design, wants to introduce self-management and the exploration of values to the field of customer relations. The goal is to develop a new type of consumer communication to help individual customers clarify their values through creativity and reflection.
19 January 2010
Is Design Philosophical?
Design and philosophy are not as far apart as one might think. Both disciplines address what is actual and what is possible, albeit in different ways. Philosophy is reflective, while design pursues a practical expression of possibility. Thus, there is considerable potential in bringing design and philosophy into a productive mutual dialogue, which is precisely the purpose of CEPHAD, Centre for Philosophy and Design, which is holding an international conference at The Danish Design School on 26-29 January 2010.
19 January 2010
Consortiums Open Doors
Four consortiums in the fields of textile, fashion, furniture and strategic design form the setting for a collaboration of design researchers, research institutions and companies. The consortiums generate synergy and valuable networks and promote the exchange of knowledge and ideas with the business sector. For example, the Textile Consortium has opened new doors for Vibeke Riisberg, associate professor at Designskolen Kolding. She sees the consortium setup as a helpful framework for the exchange of knowledge and the communication of Danish and international textile research to industry, designers and the educational institutions. A common feature for all four consortiums is that they are helping to upgrade their field and generate innovation.
17 February 2010
Design Creates the Future
Design is a change-oriented discipline. Based on knowledge from design research about the way in which culture and individuals adopt change, designers can create the future-oriented solutions that society needs. In this interview Peter Gall Krogh, recently appointed design professor at the Aarhus School of Architecture, talks about the role of design research for the potential of the design discipline to affirm as well as transform values.
17 February 2010
Anchoring Innovation
Strategic design can be used to enhance a company’s focus on its innovation processes. New research shows that it is worthwhile to examine how the development process begins, and how it is anchored strategically in the company’s organisation. Interview with designer Brett Patching about his ongoing Ph.D. project at the Aarhus School of Architecture.
17 February 2010
Editorial: Design Research - a Catalyst for Innovation
In the first issue of Mind Design in 2010, Director Dorthe Mejlhede takes stock of the activities in the Danish Centre for Design Research in 2009 and of the platform that the centre has created for current and future design research. Design research can act as a catalyst for innovation and as a source of value creation for companies and for society at large. That is why it is so important to continue to expand and support the design research environment, Dorthe Mejlhede points out.
19 January 2010
Using Creativity to Enhance Consumer Awareness
With the aid of two Ph.D. projects, the Danish savings bank Middelfart Sparekasse has undergone an organisational development process focused on human values and staff self-management. Now, the bank’s third Industrial Ph.D. scholar, Kirsten Bonde Sørensen from Kolding School of Design, wants to introduce self-management and the exploration of values to the field of customer relations. The goal is to develop a new type of consumer communication to help individual customers clarify their values through creativity and reflection.
19 January 2010
Is Design Philosophical?
Design and philosophy are not as far apart as one might think. Both disciplines address what is actual and what is possible, albeit in different ways. Philosophy is reflective, while design pursues a practical expression of possibility. Thus, there is considerable potential in bringing design and philosophy into a productive mutual dialogue, which is precisely the purpose of CEPHAD, Centre for Philosophy and Design, which is holding an international conference at The Danish Design School on 26-29 January 2010.
19 January 2010
