PhD Projects
Accessibility through inclusive and user-centred design processesThis PhD project has investigated the actual design strategies used in mainstream inclusive design (product design) and assistive technology.
- Richard Herriot, Aarhus School of Architecture
Changing Atmospheres in Interaction DesignThis PhD project will investigate how computer technology can be used to rethink the concept of furniture and discover new aesthetic potential by developing prototypes.
- Sofie Kinch, Aarhus School of Architecture
Co-design: Performativity, intervention and dialogueThis PhD project aims to contribute to rethinking and developing ‘co-design’ as a field of research in design research – national and internationally.
- Maria Foverskov, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design
Communication design – the visual presentation of dataThis PhD project aims at reducing the barrier between statistics and design and building the basis for good, visual presentations of statistical data.
- Pia Pedersen, Kolding School of Design
Critical design: the rearticulation of design as a critical practiceThe purpose of this PhD project is to investigate the conditions for and the reach of a new critical design practice.
- Tau Ulv Lenskjold, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design
Designing for Social Innovation – Co-creating new meaning and practice in a prison service contextThe research project investigates the influence of design approaches for organisational learning in collaborative innovation processes in the Danish Prison Service.
- Marie Aakjær, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design
Framing the BodyThe PhD project aims to contribute new knowledge to the field of fashion about its own design methodology and the role of this methodology in forming a professional identity.
- Framing the Body, Kolding School of Design
Game-based Design With an Emphasis on Paediatric Patients’ Emotional ValuesThis PhD project aims to examine whether game-based design and new forms of story-telling can be designed and structured to enable the use of computer games for acquiring knowledge about children’s emotional experiences at the beginning of (and throughout) their hospital stay.
- Eva Knutz, Kolding School of Design
High Impact: The Intersection of Technology, Business and Human ValuesThe aim of this research project is to investigate and develop strategic design methodologies and tools in a Danish context. Coupled to this will be the investigation of communication and cooperation methods and tools in multidisciplinary teams.
- Brett Patching, Aarhus School of Architecture
The project focuses on how to support and qualify the design of interactive products and installations that take their starting point in bodily empathy; in other words physical interaction conditional on the physical actions of other participants.
- Maiken Hillerup Fogtmann, Aarhus School of Architecture
New Houses With Soul?This PhD projects aims to generate new knowledge about the factors that add value to our built environment and about the interaction of design, branding and use.
- Marie Stender, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design
On The Move - Creating Domesticity Through Experience DesignThe purpose of the project is to look into the qualities, emotions and experiences that help to create a feeling of domesticity when we are on the move.
- Aviaja Borup Lynggard, Aarhus School of Architecture
The Daily GrindAn Inventory of Contemporary Architectures of the »Enterprising Self«.
Investigations into Generic Architectures for Living, Playing and Working; Towards Architecture of Configurability?
Investigations into Generic Architectures for Living, Playing and Working; Towards Architecture of Configurability?
- Andreas Rumpfhuber, Danish Centre for Design Research
The Use of Memory as a Theme in Italian and Danish Jewellery DesignThe key issue in this project is whether the memory dimension can make a valuable contribution to a larger theoretical insight into the meaning of jewellery design.
- Sisse Tanderup, Kolding School of Design
