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Danish Design Research Has International Potential
The combination of the Danish design tradition and recent years’ development in the field of research gives Danish design research a good basis for gaining a strong international position.
15 December 2007
New Educational Programmes Promote Design
Strategic DesignTo be able to draw and to have ideas is not enough for a designer. Newly established educational programmes create a basis for new combinations and new dimensions for design professionals.
15 December 2007
Type design - a Part of Danish design tradition
At The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Associate Professor, architect and graphic designer Steen Ejlers is engaged in a research project and major book project to document a hitherto somewhat overlooked part of the Danish design tradition: type design and its development in the 20th century.
15 December 2007
Passing the Baton #4
The notion of an expanded concept of design dates back to the late 1950s, but the debate about the concept has only really taken off in the past few decades. Here, Ida Engholm, an associate research professor at the Danish Centre for Design Research, who was involved in launching the concept in Denmark in the late 1990s, makes her contribution to the debate as it stands in 2007.
15 December 2007
Danish Platform for Profiling Design Research
Artifact is a new international research journal about design. It has been developed by two Danish researchers and targets the international design research in an attempt at increasing knowledge sharing. Thus, Artifact is a Danish platform for profiling design research.
15 November 2007
The Design Landscape - a New Way of Talking About Design
Strategic DesignHow can one verbalise what it is one does when working with design? And how can one explain and describe the various types of design activity that take place in companies, whether or not they have acknowledged that they are using design? Irene Lønne, architect and designer, has developed the tool ‘the design landscape’ as part of her ongoing Ph.D. project at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture. The design landscape is not only useful as a means of mapping out a company’s use of design; it can also translate a strategic ambition into a concrete solution and thus be used to explain why the company needs design.
15 November 2007
Visualisation is the Topic of Research
The role of visualisation in design processes is the topic of research in two Ph.D. projects at, respectively, Designskolen Kolding and The Danish Design School. The two Ph.D. projects examine how we should understand designers’ drawing skills and the role of these skills.
15 November 2007
Passing the Baton #3
Stop talking about the expanded concept of design, and learn from the best innovative research environments and design firms. This is the position of, Thomas Schødt Rasmussen, head of research at The Danish Design School, who has the Baton.
15 November 2007
Textile Research on the Agenda
On 25 September 2007 a new textile consortium was launched at Designskolen Kolding. The purpose of the consortium is to serve as common framework for a wide range of approaches to textile design and textile research. The consortium is to facilitate a synergy that will make the joint effort bigger than the sum of the individual participants’ effort.
15 October 2007
The Regulation of Daylight as a Field of Design
FashionDaylight is a complex phenomenon. In a workplace, sunlight can be a source of well-being, but the light can also be blinding – for example, a computer screen is of little use in direct sunlight. Another source of discomfort may be unpleasantly high indoor temperatures. This is the point of departure for a research project at Designskolen Kolding titled “Regulering af dagslys i offentligt miljø” (Regulating daylight in public spaces), which explores the interaction between decoration, new materials, techniques and models.
15 October 2007
Galen Cranz: The Chair - a Health Threat
Designers should consider ergonomics as well as sustainability says Galen Cranz, professor of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. On 3 October 2007 she visited The Danish Design School to give a lecture: The Chair – Rethinking Culture, Body and Design. The visit took place in connection with her visiting appointment at Designskolen Kolding in September and October 2007.
15 October 2007
Passing the Baton #2
Associate Professor Peter Gall Krogh, Aarhus School of Architecture, has the Baton this time and offers his view of the expanded concept of design.
15 October 2007
Dialogue Between Art and Science
What represents a scientific approach in relation to artistic research? How can science and art engage in productive interaction? These are some of the issues that Henrik Oxvig, associate professor, MA (research degree) and director of doctoral studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture discussed in his presentation at the research seminar.
15 September 2007
Quality in Design Research
The theme of this year’s research seminar was “Quality in design research”. The research seminar was organised by the Danish Centre of Design Research and took place at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture on Monday, 27 August 2007. The research seminar gathered most of those active in Danish design research and thus offered an occasion for meeting, forming or affirming networks, and debating design and design research.
15 September 2007
Artistic Research
How is knowledge generated in the field of arts, and how can we determine research that revolves around artistic practice? With this issue – research through art – as his point of departure Mikkel Bogh, rector of the Schools of Visual Arts at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, called for an open discussion about practice-based knowledge production.
15 September 2007
What is Quality in Design Research?
What constitutes specific design research? And what can be considered quality on the terms of this particular field of research? Those were some of the questions raised in seven presentations by people from the design research environment at the annual DCDR research seminar. Ultimately, the key question was how to define one’s own agenda for specific design research.
15 September 2007
Danish Design Research Has International Potential
The combination of the Danish design tradition and recent years’ development in the field of research gives Danish design research a good basis for gaining a strong international position.
15 December 2007
New Educational Programmes Promote Design
Strategic DesignTo be able to draw and to have ideas is not enough for a designer. Newly established educational programmes create a basis for new combinations and new dimensions for design professionals.
15 December 2007
Type design - a Part of Danish design tradition
At The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Associate Professor, architect and graphic designer Steen Ejlers is engaged in a research project and major book project to document a hitherto somewhat overlooked part of the Danish design tradition: type design and its development in the 20th century.
15 December 2007
Passing the Baton #4
The notion of an expanded concept of design dates back to the late 1950s, but the debate about the concept has only really taken off in the past few decades. Here, Ida Engholm, an associate research professor at the Danish Centre for Design Research, who was involved in launching the concept in Denmark in the late 1990s, makes her contribution to the debate as it stands in 2007.
15 December 2007
Danish Platform for Profiling Design Research
Artifact is a new international research journal about design. It has been developed by two Danish researchers and targets the international design research in an attempt at increasing knowledge sharing. Thus, Artifact is a Danish platform for profiling design research.
15 November 2007
The Design Landscape - a New Way of Talking About Design
Strategic DesignHow can one verbalise what it is one does when working with design? And how can one explain and describe the various types of design activity that take place in companies, whether or not they have acknowledged that they are using design? Irene Lønne, architect and designer, has developed the tool ‘the design landscape’ as part of her ongoing Ph.D. project at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture. The design landscape is not only useful as a means of mapping out a company’s use of design; it can also translate a strategic ambition into a concrete solution and thus be used to explain why the company needs design.
15 November 2007
Visualisation is the Topic of Research
The role of visualisation in design processes is the topic of research in two Ph.D. projects at, respectively, Designskolen Kolding and The Danish Design School. The two Ph.D. projects examine how we should understand designers’ drawing skills and the role of these skills.
15 November 2007
Passing the Baton #3
Stop talking about the expanded concept of design, and learn from the best innovative research environments and design firms. This is the position of, Thomas Schødt Rasmussen, head of research at The Danish Design School, who has the Baton.
15 November 2007
Textile Research on the Agenda
On 25 September 2007 a new textile consortium was launched at Designskolen Kolding. The purpose of the consortium is to serve as common framework for a wide range of approaches to textile design and textile research. The consortium is to facilitate a synergy that will make the joint effort bigger than the sum of the individual participants’ effort.
15 October 2007
The Regulation of Daylight as a Field of Design
FashionDaylight is a complex phenomenon. In a workplace, sunlight can be a source of well-being, but the light can also be blinding – for example, a computer screen is of little use in direct sunlight. Another source of discomfort may be unpleasantly high indoor temperatures. This is the point of departure for a research project at Designskolen Kolding titled “Regulering af dagslys i offentligt miljø” (Regulating daylight in public spaces), which explores the interaction between decoration, new materials, techniques and models.
15 October 2007
Galen Cranz: The Chair - a Health Threat
Designers should consider ergonomics as well as sustainability says Galen Cranz, professor of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. On 3 October 2007 she visited The Danish Design School to give a lecture: The Chair – Rethinking Culture, Body and Design. The visit took place in connection with her visiting appointment at Designskolen Kolding in September and October 2007.
15 October 2007
Passing the Baton #2
Associate Professor Peter Gall Krogh, Aarhus School of Architecture, has the Baton this time and offers his view of the expanded concept of design.
15 October 2007
Dialogue Between Art and Science
What represents a scientific approach in relation to artistic research? How can science and art engage in productive interaction? These are some of the issues that Henrik Oxvig, associate professor, MA (research degree) and director of doctoral studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture discussed in his presentation at the research seminar.
15 September 2007
Quality in Design Research
The theme of this year’s research seminar was “Quality in design research”. The research seminar was organised by the Danish Centre of Design Research and took place at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture on Monday, 27 August 2007. The research seminar gathered most of those active in Danish design research and thus offered an occasion for meeting, forming or affirming networks, and debating design and design research.
15 September 2007
Artistic Research
How is knowledge generated in the field of arts, and how can we determine research that revolves around artistic practice? With this issue – research through art – as his point of departure Mikkel Bogh, rector of the Schools of Visual Arts at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, called for an open discussion about practice-based knowledge production.
15 September 2007
What is Quality in Design Research?
What constitutes specific design research? And what can be considered quality on the terms of this particular field of research? Those were some of the questions raised in seven presentations by people from the design research environment at the annual DCDR research seminar. Ultimately, the key question was how to define one’s own agenda for specific design research.
15 September 2007
Talking Textiles
Anne Louise Bang successfully defended her Industrial Ph.D. dissertation on 12 May 2011 at the Kolding School of Design, Denmark. Among other elements, her project involved the development of a game to help the many different participants in a design process develop a shared language and a shared understanding of textiles and their properties.
15 June 2011
Bio-Composites
Bio-composites are incredibly diverse and have great aesthetic potential as well as a variety of eco-friendly qualities. Bio-composites are materials composed of biological fibres and a bio-degradable type of plastic: PLA. Bio-composites are not a new invention, but their design potential is expanding as they are being used for new purposes and in new contexts. A project at the Kolding School of Design examined the feasibility of using bio-composites for wall and ceiling panels in the “super hospitals” that are currently on the drawing board around the country.
15 March 2011
Themes
Edited and published by the Danish Centre for Design Research
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