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Research Attachés Provide Access to International Networks
The Danish Ministry for Science, Technology and Innovation has established innovation centres in Shanghai, Munich and Silicon Valley. Here, research attachés help Danish research institutions build international partnerships and networks, among other things. As a good example of a successful collaboration, the research attaché in Silicon Valley pointed to a US study tour by one of the Ph.D. scholars from the Danish Centre for Design Research.
15 December 2008
The Interaction of Research and Business
A mobile lifestyle with extensive travel or several homes is becoming increasingly common. Aviaja Borup, who is an Industrial Ph.D. scholar at Bang & Olufsen, studies how the design of products and services might help create a sense of domesticity for people who lead a mobile and global lifestyle. The project is carried out in cooperation with the Aarhus School of Architecture and offers valuable insights for both the research environment and the company.
15 December 2008
Design Practice as the Basis for Theory Development
On 4 November 2008, a seminar entitled 'When Design Practice Becomes Research' addressed how design practitioners’ experiments may promote the development of theory and be included in research. Design work carried out in connection with a research project offers unique opportunities for contributing empirically to research. However, there are also considerable challenges involved in disseminating knowledge that is produced experimentally.
15 December 2008
Designing Danish Design
Denmark has a unique tradition for allowing design to affect the development of Danish society. Preserving this tradition and continuing it in the future requires a new and ambitious strategy for Danish design. At the three-day seminar 'Not defining design – but “Designing Design”', 30 September - 2 October 2008 at Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark, participants sought to define specific directions for a new strategy.
17 November 2008
Innovation in Waste Management
Design researchers from The Danish Design School are developing methods to strengthen innovation in complex projects. The goal is to design a model for an open, inter-disciplinary innovation process, where researchers working with designers, users and representatives of companies generate analyses and future scenarios. In the research project 'Design-Anthropological Innovation Model', the researchers have taken on the area of waste management as a pilot project for the development of new methods.
17 November 2008
Design Governs Our Behaviour
Through their work, designers can affect human behaviour. That is one of the conclusions in a Ph.D. project entitled 'Design, Behaviour and Power', which Ph.D. scholar Trine Brun Petersen from Designskolen Kolding, Denmark, is currently working on. This insight opens important perspectives for design as a force for behavioural regulation.
17 November 2008
National Design Policy Improves Competitiveness
Investments in a design system consisting of design support, design promotion, design education and a national design policy may improve a country’s competitiveness and promote economic growth. Gisele Raulik-Murphy, a Ph.D. scholar at University of Wales Institute, Cardiff has compared the design systems of four countries. She highlights Finland as a paragon of design. Yrjö Sotamaa, a professor and former rector at University of Art and Design, describes Finland’s process of developing a design policy, a process that he was an active contributor to.
20 October 2008
Like Being Inside a Kaleidoscope
The value of combining practice-based insights from industry with the theoretical insights from the research environment is apparent in textile designer Anne Louise Bangs Industrial Ph.D. project. As an Industrial Ph.D. scholar at the textile company Gabriel and with her ties to Designskolen Kolding she is enjoying the best of both worlds. With user-driven innovation as the key focus, in her research project she attempts to add new tools to the design process.
20 October 2008
A Scandinavian Approach to Interaction Design
A group of Scandinavian programmers have made themselves noticed in the field of interaction design and systems development. Their work is referred to as ’the Scandinavian School’. The characteristics of the Scandinavian school include user-involvement, a group approach and simplicity. Many of the programming languages, operating systems and internet components that are in use today have their roots in the Scandinavian School of systems development.
20 October 2008
The Multiple Perspectives of Design Research
What is design research? Since design is, after all, a practice field, why even bother with research? A comprehensive anthology about design research in Sweden provides a brief and precise in its title: Design research is about going beneath the surface of the things that seem obvious. 'Under ytan' (Beneath the Surface) features contributions from the full range of design research; it is a well-edited book, which for years to come will continue to be a strong source of documentation of the wide range of design research.
20 October 2008
Is Denmark a Happening Place?
Innovation and creativity are crucial capacities in the global economy. That poses a particular challenge for a country like Denmark. According to the American economist Richard Florida, creativity is best promoted within the context of a mega-region. To Florida, Denmark’s geographic position and size preclude Denmark from being part of a mega-region. However, Filip Lau from the consultancy firm ReD Associates points out that the key is to cultivate Denmark’s particular strong points. Together with the other Scandinavian countries, we share particular values and a cultural background – especially reflected within design – that we should be maintaining, cultivating and drawing on in our profiling efforts.
15 September 2008
Design Research Requires Discipline, but which Discipline?
What are the characteristics of the design approach? What challenges are inherent in the interdisciplinary nature of design research? These were some of the questions that were put to debate at the Design Research Society’s conference in July 2008 entitled Undisciplined!. The conference, which was held at Sheffield Hallam University, drew some 400 design researchers from all over the world.
15 September 2008
The Aesthetic Value Factor in Design
Aesthetic factors are essential in design. But it is often difficult to describe the exact nature of aesthetics. With his book Den æstetiske relation (The aesthetic relation) Morten Kyndrup, professor of aesthetics and culture at the University of Aarhus, offers a platform for this discourse. The book states that we need an updated concept of aesthetics now that aesthetics can no longer be seen as the exclusive domain of art but also plays a role in everyday design and the way we stage our lives in the modern experience economy.
15 September 2008
Research Promotes Innovation in the Danish Furniture Industry
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture has launched the research project Creativity and Innovation in the Danish Furniture Industry. The project aims to create new knowledge about the strategic focus of furniture manufacturers and map the approaches they use to promote innovative behaviour. The project is also involved in the establishment of a furniture consortium.
15 September 2008
Knowledge Building Through Experimental Design Research
Bringing together a variety of media and modes of expression in the field of design may give rise to something new – new knowledge and new meanings. When this occurs, it is important to include a research effort to discover exactly what happens in this encounter, and what the implications are. In his Ph.D. project, ceramicist Flemming Tvede Hansen explores what happens when the sensuous medium of ceramics meets the virtual space of the digital media.
15 June 2008
Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Dissertation is a Weighty Contribution to Danish Design Research
On 14 May 2008, Erik Hansen-Hansen defended his Ph.D. Dissertation at The Danish Design School. The dissertation, entitled ‘Desire, Seduction and Feminine Beauty: Global Luxury Fashion in the Network Economy’ draws on classic fashion theories as well as complexity theory and biological theories in an effort to explore the driving forces behind luxury fashion. The evaluation panel calls the dissertation bold and ambitious and describes it as an important contribution to establishing a Danish fashion research effort, thanks to its broad theoretical base and conceptual clarification.
15 June 2008
Designers' Competencies Put to the Debate
The designer's role in the private sector is undergoing change. With a dialogue meeting on 2 June 2008, the Danish Centre for Design Research set the stage for a debate with companies about the potential contributions of design research to strengthening design education and thus the designers' future competence profile.
15 June 2008
Passing the Baton #10
Design is an approach to the world on par with politics, religion or science, says Erik Stolterman, a professor at Indiana University School of Informatics, in this month's Passing the Baton about the expanded design concept. Design has its own tradition, tools and techniques, and this qualifies design as an approach that has the capacity to enrich research projects, among other things.
15 June 2008
A Tin-Opener for Collaboration Between Industry and Research
Most consumers have experienced occasional problems with opening packaging. Now, design researchers working with the Danish Technological Institute, the packaging industry and the Danish Rheumatism Association aim to create a platform for developing more user-friendly packaging. One intended outcome of the project is a guideline that industry can use in development efforts. The project also points the way for more extended collaboration between companies and design researchers.
15 May 2008
The Industrial Ph.D. Programme Proves Popular
The possibility of combining research and business is one of the strengths in the industrial Ph.D. programme. The programme, which was launched by the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation, has proved popular with enterprises and in university environments as a good instrument for innovation and knowledge dissemination.
15 May 2008
Luxury fashion: Beyond Products
Under the theme "What Drives Fashion?" the Danish Centre for Design Research engaged a fashion researcher, a business director and an editor-in-chief in debate in a research café on 25 April 2008 in connection with the Festival of Research. In a dialogue with the audience, they discussed the whims, temptations and future of fashion. The event closed with a fashion show, where design students and recent design graduates presented their takes on future fashion.
15 May 2008
Passing the Baton #9
One consequence of the expanded concept of design may be that designers become more business-oriented, and this is a development that is welcomed by Birgitte Jahn, director of Danish Crafts who holds this month's baton. However, she also emphasises the importance of maintaining the designers' core competencies. Birgitte Jahn thinks that it would be a mistake to shift the design schools' focus too far away from the classic concept of design.
15 May 2008
Toward a New Strategy for Danish design
How to achieve a new development for Danish design that preserves the best from the past while being ready to take on the challenges of the future? How to accomplish an open, nuanced and precise discourse about design in practice, education and research without reverting to oversimplification? The English design professor John Heskett from the School of Design at Hong Kong Polytechnic University paid a three-day visit to the Aarhus School of Architecture in March 2008 to help outline some answers.
15 April 2008
New Type of Brick Tile Holds Answers to Modern Challenges
Two senior researchers at The Danish Design School have spent three years doing research on brick and ceramic climate screens. The outcome is a completely new type of tile with many good properties – both technically and aesthetically. In the following project stage the researchers will explore the possibilities for improving tile facade covering.
15 April 2008
Ph.D. Scholar on a Quest for Legible Type Design
Research into the legibility of typefaces was the topic for a presentation by Sofie Beier, a graphic designer and a Ph.D. Scholar at the Royal College of Arts in London, at an evening event at the design firm Pleks in Copenhagen. The presentation was organised by the design department of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture and ‘Danish Faces’ (Forum for type design), and it drew a full house.
15 April 2008
Passing the Baton #8
We water the concept of design down when we expand it. Rather than discussing an expanded concept of design, we should use the concepts that already exist to demonstrate our awareness of, for example, interdisciplinary approaches. This is the opinion of Annette Meyer, who is an independent designer. She carries this month’s Baton about the expanded concept of design.
15 April 2008
Research Profile Rests on Shared Values
As part of the ongoing cooperation between Denmark’s schools of design and architecture, the heads of design research at the four schools are preparing a joint research profile in the field of design. This process has three key goals. Firstly, the research profile should help make Danish design research more visible in international research environments. Secondly, the process of preparing the profile should reinforce the schools’ cooperation within the framework of the Danish Centre for Design Research. And thirdly, the profile description should help attract investments and knowledge-based workplaces to Denmark.
15 March 2008
Design is Always a Message!
That design is a medium that communicates messages through form and expression was one of the unequivocal points of the Finnish design semiotician Susann Vihma’s guest lectures at the Master of Design programme and The Danish Design School February 2008. Susann Vihma pointed to semiotics as an instrument not just for analysing design but also for helping designers heighten their awareness of the messages they wish to express.
15 March 2008
Getting a Handle on Invisible and Wireless Technologies
How can design be used as part of a large, interdisciplinary research project, where the goal is to test and develop new software architecture? This was one of the main research questions for architect Gunnar Kramp, who defended his Ph.D. dissertation Designing Mixed Media Devices for Support of Healthcare Professionals on 5 February 2008 at the Aarhus School of Architecture.
15 March 2008
Passing the Baton #7
The expanded concept of design turns everyone into designers, while those who were supposed to be designers are so less and less, because the expanded concept of design means that they are expected to focus on a whole range of other disciplines as well. That is the opinion of Merete Ahnfeldt-Mollerup, associate professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, who carries this month’s Baton. She also believes that the expanded concept of design causes confusion in the design research environment.
15 March 2008
Cooperation Beneficial for Companies and Researchers Alike
The establishment of the limited company the Alexandra Institute has made it much easier for design researchers in Århus, Denmark, to collaborate with companies and other researchers. The Alexandra Institute helps companies and researchers find the right partners. Proper planning of collaborative projects is essential, says Peter Gall Krogh, who is an associate professor at Aarhus School of Architecture and the head of innovation at the Alexandra Institute A/S. Here, he shares some of his experiences with business partnerships.
15 February 2008
Consortium Strengthens Research Education
The Danish Ph.D. programme in design and architecture is now being strengthened. In 2006, the Danish research education consortium DKAD was established with a view to developing the Ph.D. programme and strengthening its international profile and outlook. The consortium has initiated a number of activities aimed at Ph.D. scholars.
15 February 2008
Artistic Development Activities as Research
One of the recurring themes in design research is how to convert artistic development activities to research. In the field of architecture, Associate Professor Peter Bjerrum from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture recently became a doctor of architecture – an academic degree based partly on an acknowledgement of the importance of artistic development activities for research. The main points of Peter Bjerrum’s work and methodology are presented here as inspiration for the field of design.
15 February 2008
Passing the Baton #6
15 February 2008
Research Attachés Provide Access to International Networks
The Danish Ministry for Science, Technology and Innovation has established innovation centres in Shanghai, Munich and Silicon Valley. Here, research attachés help Danish research institutions build international partnerships and networks, among other things. As a good example of a successful collaboration, the research attaché in Silicon Valley pointed to a US study tour by one of the Ph.D. scholars from the Danish Centre for Design Research.
15 December 2008
The Interaction of Research and Business
A mobile lifestyle with extensive travel or several homes is becoming increasingly common. Aviaja Borup, who is an Industrial Ph.D. scholar at Bang & Olufsen, studies how the design of products and services might help create a sense of domesticity for people who lead a mobile and global lifestyle. The project is carried out in cooperation with the Aarhus School of Architecture and offers valuable insights for both the research environment and the company.
15 December 2008
Design Practice as the Basis for Theory Development
On 4 November 2008, a seminar entitled 'When Design Practice Becomes Research' addressed how design practitioners’ experiments may promote the development of theory and be included in research. Design work carried out in connection with a research project offers unique opportunities for contributing empirically to research. However, there are also considerable challenges involved in disseminating knowledge that is produced experimentally.
15 December 2008
Designing Danish Design
Denmark has a unique tradition for allowing design to affect the development of Danish society. Preserving this tradition and continuing it in the future requires a new and ambitious strategy for Danish design. At the three-day seminar 'Not defining design – but “Designing Design”', 30 September - 2 October 2008 at Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark, participants sought to define specific directions for a new strategy.
17 November 2008
Innovation in Waste Management
Design researchers from The Danish Design School are developing methods to strengthen innovation in complex projects. The goal is to design a model for an open, inter-disciplinary innovation process, where researchers working with designers, users and representatives of companies generate analyses and future scenarios. In the research project 'Design-Anthropological Innovation Model', the researchers have taken on the area of waste management as a pilot project for the development of new methods.
17 November 2008
Design Governs Our Behaviour
Through their work, designers can affect human behaviour. That is one of the conclusions in a Ph.D. project entitled 'Design, Behaviour and Power', which Ph.D. scholar Trine Brun Petersen from Designskolen Kolding, Denmark, is currently working on. This insight opens important perspectives for design as a force for behavioural regulation.
17 November 2008
National Design Policy Improves Competitiveness
Investments in a design system consisting of design support, design promotion, design education and a national design policy may improve a country’s competitiveness and promote economic growth. Gisele Raulik-Murphy, a Ph.D. scholar at University of Wales Institute, Cardiff has compared the design systems of four countries. She highlights Finland as a paragon of design. Yrjö Sotamaa, a professor and former rector at University of Art and Design, describes Finland’s process of developing a design policy, a process that he was an active contributor to.
20 October 2008
Like Being Inside a Kaleidoscope
The value of combining practice-based insights from industry with the theoretical insights from the research environment is apparent in textile designer Anne Louise Bangs Industrial Ph.D. project. As an Industrial Ph.D. scholar at the textile company Gabriel and with her ties to Designskolen Kolding she is enjoying the best of both worlds. With user-driven innovation as the key focus, in her research project she attempts to add new tools to the design process.
20 October 2008
A Scandinavian Approach to Interaction Design
A group of Scandinavian programmers have made themselves noticed in the field of interaction design and systems development. Their work is referred to as ’the Scandinavian School’. The characteristics of the Scandinavian school include user-involvement, a group approach and simplicity. Many of the programming languages, operating systems and internet components that are in use today have their roots in the Scandinavian School of systems development.
20 October 2008
The Multiple Perspectives of Design Research
What is design research? Since design is, after all, a practice field, why even bother with research? A comprehensive anthology about design research in Sweden provides a brief and precise in its title: Design research is about going beneath the surface of the things that seem obvious. 'Under ytan' (Beneath the Surface) features contributions from the full range of design research; it is a well-edited book, which for years to come will continue to be a strong source of documentation of the wide range of design research.
20 October 2008
Is Denmark a Happening Place?
Innovation and creativity are crucial capacities in the global economy. That poses a particular challenge for a country like Denmark. According to the American economist Richard Florida, creativity is best promoted within the context of a mega-region. To Florida, Denmark’s geographic position and size preclude Denmark from being part of a mega-region. However, Filip Lau from the consultancy firm ReD Associates points out that the key is to cultivate Denmark’s particular strong points. Together with the other Scandinavian countries, we share particular values and a cultural background – especially reflected within design – that we should be maintaining, cultivating and drawing on in our profiling efforts.
15 September 2008
Design Research Requires Discipline, but which Discipline?
What are the characteristics of the design approach? What challenges are inherent in the interdisciplinary nature of design research? These were some of the questions that were put to debate at the Design Research Society’s conference in July 2008 entitled Undisciplined!. The conference, which was held at Sheffield Hallam University, drew some 400 design researchers from all over the world.
15 September 2008
The Aesthetic Value Factor in Design
Aesthetic factors are essential in design. But it is often difficult to describe the exact nature of aesthetics. With his book Den æstetiske relation (The aesthetic relation) Morten Kyndrup, professor of aesthetics and culture at the University of Aarhus, offers a platform for this discourse. The book states that we need an updated concept of aesthetics now that aesthetics can no longer be seen as the exclusive domain of art but also plays a role in everyday design and the way we stage our lives in the modern experience economy.
15 September 2008
Research Promotes Innovation in the Danish Furniture Industry
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture has launched the research project Creativity and Innovation in the Danish Furniture Industry. The project aims to create new knowledge about the strategic focus of furniture manufacturers and map the approaches they use to promote innovative behaviour. The project is also involved in the establishment of a furniture consortium.
15 September 2008
Knowledge Building Through Experimental Design Research
Bringing together a variety of media and modes of expression in the field of design may give rise to something new – new knowledge and new meanings. When this occurs, it is important to include a research effort to discover exactly what happens in this encounter, and what the implications are. In his Ph.D. project, ceramicist Flemming Tvede Hansen explores what happens when the sensuous medium of ceramics meets the virtual space of the digital media.
15 June 2008
Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Dissertation is a Weighty Contribution to Danish Design Research
On 14 May 2008, Erik Hansen-Hansen defended his Ph.D. Dissertation at The Danish Design School. The dissertation, entitled ‘Desire, Seduction and Feminine Beauty: Global Luxury Fashion in the Network Economy’ draws on classic fashion theories as well as complexity theory and biological theories in an effort to explore the driving forces behind luxury fashion. The evaluation panel calls the dissertation bold and ambitious and describes it as an important contribution to establishing a Danish fashion research effort, thanks to its broad theoretical base and conceptual clarification.
15 June 2008
Designers' Competencies Put to the Debate
The designer's role in the private sector is undergoing change. With a dialogue meeting on 2 June 2008, the Danish Centre for Design Research set the stage for a debate with companies about the potential contributions of design research to strengthening design education and thus the designers' future competence profile.
15 June 2008
Passing the Baton #10
Design is an approach to the world on par with politics, religion or science, says Erik Stolterman, a professor at Indiana University School of Informatics, in this month's Passing the Baton about the expanded design concept. Design has its own tradition, tools and techniques, and this qualifies design as an approach that has the capacity to enrich research projects, among other things.
15 June 2008
A Tin-Opener for Collaboration Between Industry and Research
Most consumers have experienced occasional problems with opening packaging. Now, design researchers working with the Danish Technological Institute, the packaging industry and the Danish Rheumatism Association aim to create a platform for developing more user-friendly packaging. One intended outcome of the project is a guideline that industry can use in development efforts. The project also points the way for more extended collaboration between companies and design researchers.
15 May 2008
The Industrial Ph.D. Programme Proves Popular
The possibility of combining research and business is one of the strengths in the industrial Ph.D. programme. The programme, which was launched by the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation, has proved popular with enterprises and in university environments as a good instrument for innovation and knowledge dissemination.
15 May 2008
Luxury fashion: Beyond Products
Under the theme "What Drives Fashion?" the Danish Centre for Design Research engaged a fashion researcher, a business director and an editor-in-chief in debate in a research café on 25 April 2008 in connection with the Festival of Research. In a dialogue with the audience, they discussed the whims, temptations and future of fashion. The event closed with a fashion show, where design students and recent design graduates presented their takes on future fashion.
15 May 2008
Passing the Baton #9
One consequence of the expanded concept of design may be that designers become more business-oriented, and this is a development that is welcomed by Birgitte Jahn, director of Danish Crafts who holds this month's baton. However, she also emphasises the importance of maintaining the designers' core competencies. Birgitte Jahn thinks that it would be a mistake to shift the design schools' focus too far away from the classic concept of design.
15 May 2008
Toward a New Strategy for Danish design
How to achieve a new development for Danish design that preserves the best from the past while being ready to take on the challenges of the future? How to accomplish an open, nuanced and precise discourse about design in practice, education and research without reverting to oversimplification? The English design professor John Heskett from the School of Design at Hong Kong Polytechnic University paid a three-day visit to the Aarhus School of Architecture in March 2008 to help outline some answers.
15 April 2008
New Type of Brick Tile Holds Answers to Modern Challenges
Two senior researchers at The Danish Design School have spent three years doing research on brick and ceramic climate screens. The outcome is a completely new type of tile with many good properties – both technically and aesthetically. In the following project stage the researchers will explore the possibilities for improving tile facade covering.
15 April 2008
Ph.D. Scholar on a Quest for Legible Type Design
Research into the legibility of typefaces was the topic for a presentation by Sofie Beier, a graphic designer and a Ph.D. Scholar at the Royal College of Arts in London, at an evening event at the design firm Pleks in Copenhagen. The presentation was organised by the design department of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture and ‘Danish Faces’ (Forum for type design), and it drew a full house.
15 April 2008
Passing the Baton #8
We water the concept of design down when we expand it. Rather than discussing an expanded concept of design, we should use the concepts that already exist to demonstrate our awareness of, for example, interdisciplinary approaches. This is the opinion of Annette Meyer, who is an independent designer. She carries this month’s Baton about the expanded concept of design.
15 April 2008
Research Profile Rests on Shared Values
As part of the ongoing cooperation between Denmark’s schools of design and architecture, the heads of design research at the four schools are preparing a joint research profile in the field of design. This process has three key goals. Firstly, the research profile should help make Danish design research more visible in international research environments. Secondly, the process of preparing the profile should reinforce the schools’ cooperation within the framework of the Danish Centre for Design Research. And thirdly, the profile description should help attract investments and knowledge-based workplaces to Denmark.
15 March 2008
Design is Always a Message!
That design is a medium that communicates messages through form and expression was one of the unequivocal points of the Finnish design semiotician Susann Vihma’s guest lectures at the Master of Design programme and The Danish Design School February 2008. Susann Vihma pointed to semiotics as an instrument not just for analysing design but also for helping designers heighten their awareness of the messages they wish to express.
15 March 2008
Getting a Handle on Invisible and Wireless Technologies
How can design be used as part of a large, interdisciplinary research project, where the goal is to test and develop new software architecture? This was one of the main research questions for architect Gunnar Kramp, who defended his Ph.D. dissertation Designing Mixed Media Devices for Support of Healthcare Professionals on 5 February 2008 at the Aarhus School of Architecture.
15 March 2008
Passing the Baton #7
The expanded concept of design turns everyone into designers, while those who were supposed to be designers are so less and less, because the expanded concept of design means that they are expected to focus on a whole range of other disciplines as well. That is the opinion of Merete Ahnfeldt-Mollerup, associate professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, who carries this month’s Baton. She also believes that the expanded concept of design causes confusion in the design research environment.
15 March 2008
Cooperation Beneficial for Companies and Researchers Alike
The establishment of the limited company the Alexandra Institute has made it much easier for design researchers in Århus, Denmark, to collaborate with companies and other researchers. The Alexandra Institute helps companies and researchers find the right partners. Proper planning of collaborative projects is essential, says Peter Gall Krogh, who is an associate professor at Aarhus School of Architecture and the head of innovation at the Alexandra Institute A/S. Here, he shares some of his experiences with business partnerships.
15 February 2008
Consortium Strengthens Research Education
The Danish Ph.D. programme in design and architecture is now being strengthened. In 2006, the Danish research education consortium DKAD was established with a view to developing the Ph.D. programme and strengthening its international profile and outlook. The consortium has initiated a number of activities aimed at Ph.D. scholars.
15 February 2008
Artistic Development Activities as Research
One of the recurring themes in design research is how to convert artistic development activities to research. In the field of architecture, Associate Professor Peter Bjerrum from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture recently became a doctor of architecture – an academic degree based partly on an acknowledgement of the importance of artistic development activities for research. The main points of Peter Bjerrum’s work and methodology are presented here as inspiration for the field of design.
15 February 2008
Passing the Baton #6
15 February 2008
