Projects

The project aims to identify the potential of the use of bio-composites for new design solutions in interior wall and ceiling linings.

- Joy Boutrup,  Kolding School of Design

This pre-doc project investigates how ambience-building aesthetic values based on tactile and visual properties can be integrated into learning environments.

- Aesthetic learning environments (pre-doc),  Kolding School of Design

The goal of CEPHAD (Centre for Philosophy and Design) is to promote the exchange of ideas between philosophy and design research.

- Per Galle,  The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design

The project is a continuation of the project (Chair Tectonics). The purpose of Chair Tectonics II is to establish a sort of taxonomy (classification) for different types of joints.

- Nicolai de Gier,  The Royal Danish School of Fine Arts, School of Architecture

The conference aimed to explore conceptual and idea-based type design.

- Mads Quistgaard,  The Royal Danish School of Fine Arts, School of Architecture

The project investigates the feasibility of establishing a consortium for strategic design.

- Jørgen Rasmussen,  Aarhus School of Architecture

The purpose is to bring together a wide circle of partners from industry, businesses and other knowledge institutions.

- Anders Brix,  The Royal Danish School of Fine Arts, School of Architecture

The project aims to contribute to a common theoretical foundation for design research in the field of the Danish Centre for Design Research. The project will introduce and discuss the most important current trends in design theory.

- Troels Degn Johansson,  The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design

The PhD project is co-funded by the Centre for Textile Research, Kolding School of Design, the Danish Centre for Design Research and the Copenhagen business School. The project examines the development of the textile industry in Denmark from 1945 until today in interaction with societal changes. It is focused on the importance of design for the commercial success of the textile industry. There is an emphasis on the narratives that have emerged historically as the textiles have made their way from manufacturer to consumer.

- Birgit Lyngbye Pedersen,  Copenhagen Business School

The project aims to produce new knowledge about the imaginary space of possibility that exists behind design and plays a key role for the creation of design.

- Mads Nygaard Folkmann,  Other employment

The dual goal of this pre-doc project is to establish a PhD project about the use of design as a means of empowerment in development work and to organise a workshop in Ramallah, West Bank, to test the tools of the project in the form of design games.

- Marie Hugsted,  The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design

This pre-doc project aims to investigate wether iconic brands and earlier iconic cultures can be compared to achieve a better understanding of brand building and the development of product design languages.

- Karl Grøndal,  The Royal Danish School of Fine Arts, School of Architecture

The purpose of this project is to explore innovation approaches of Danish design consultancies.

- Suzan Boztepe,  Aarhus School of Architecture

The purpose of the project is to carry out the 8th Nordcode Seminar on the theme of design responsibility. Design responsibility is not a clear-cut concept in design research. It reflects a growing awareness of and critical reflections on the effect of design - and the act of conceptualising, creating and producing artefacts.

 Kolding School of Design

The purpose of the project is to study how design interventions that involve a concrete product gestalt of new possibilities in public and semi-public spaces can become an instrument for dialoque in practical design research.

- Thomas Binder,  The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design

The purpose is to develop a theory about the fundamental elements of design; to render explicit some of the ‘tacit knowledge’ of the profession.

- Anders Brix,  The Royal Danish School of Fine Arts, School of Architecture

This pre-doc project anticipates a future Ph.D. project titled 'The material and immaterial exhibition space – strategies in exhibition design'.

- Ane Pilegaard Sørensen,  The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design

Designers know that their typographic layout and choice of typefaces can have a considerable impact on the reading experience. The project aims to investigate how spacing and typeface affect reading, and how breaks of varying duration affect the reader’s adaptation to various typefaces. Furthermore, the project aims to study how the perceptual system tunes into a given typeface.

- Sofie Beier,  The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design

As part of the research strategy of the Kolding School of Design the school has established an international Advisory Board of leading researchers associated with design research. The twofold goal of the project is to found this Advisory Board and to engage the members in a research-relevant, interactive workshop at the Kolding School of Design on 16 March 2011.

- Poul Rind Christensen,  Kolding School of Design

The purpose of this PhD project is to give fashion design new, research-based knowledge about its own design methodology and its role in the formation of a professional identity. The study is anchored in phenomenological theory and revolves around lived experience and current practice.

- Ulla Ræbild,  Kolding School of Design

The purpose of this project is to identify a theoretical and methodological framework for developing research-based knowledge about the design methods in the discipline of fashion design.

- Framing the Body (pre-doc project),  Kolding School of Design

- Vibeke Rytter,  The Royal Danish School of Fine Arts, School of Architecture

The purpose of this project is to develop the international research collaboration and to establish and expand practice-based research and research-based teaching in the fields of interactive media and communication design.

- Thomas Markussen,  Kolding School of Design

The purpose of this post-doc project is to humanise the use of digital technology as a form-giving tool for threedimensional physical form in design. The goal is to help designers involve their body and their tacit knowledge in connection with the use of digital technology. Thus, the project seeks to develop techniques and methods for design practice and artistic practice.

- Flemming Tvede Hansen,  The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design

This DpD project is co-funded by the County of Western Zealand, the International Ceramic Research Centre Guldagergaard, the Danish Museum of Art & Design, The Danish Design School, and the Danish Centre for Design Research. The project investigates how the digital medium can be integrated into ceramic craft. There seems to be a tendency to use the 3D-graphic medium predominantly as an aid for visualisation and presentation, which presupposes that the creative design work has already taken place. This project examines whether and how the medium can be utilised better if it is integrated throughout the process, including the creative stage.

- Flemming Tvede Hansen,  The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design

This project examines how the activities in the global fashion control cities affect the creation of contemporary luxury fashion.

- Erik Hansen-Hansen,  The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design

This PhD project is co-funded by K3, Malmö University and the Danish Centre for Design Research. The project explores the roles of various types of tangible 'design materials' in interdisciplinary and user-involving design cooperation in various stages of the design process. The goal is to contribute to a greater awareness of material methodology, in part by analysing and exploring a collection of concrete examples.

- Mette Agger Eriksen,  Malmö University

The goal of the project is to use sparring with Ike Rust, Senior Tutor Research, London, to qualify the Institute for Product Design, Fashion and Textile at Kolding School od Design. The project aims to highligt aesthetics and a sensuous approach to textile materials in the field of fashion and textile.

 Kolding School of Design

The purpose of the project is to identify a generalisable application of emotion as an independent parameter in the design of mediation products.

- Lars Henrik Graugaard,  Kolding School of Design

The fashion consortium MOKO is a project platform that brings together the fashion research that takes place under the auspices of the Danish Ministry of Culture at the Danish Centre for Design Research, the Kolding School of Design, the Danish Museum of Art & Design and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design. MOKO's research projects are defined in close collaboration with the Danish fashion industry and the fashion education programmes at the design schools. The goal for MOKO's second phase is to secure additional funding to create a firm platform for Danish fashion research.

- Julie Sommerlund,  The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design

MOKO (the Fashion Consortium) is a project platform for fashion research activities under the Danish Ministry of Culture that take place at the Danish Centre for Design Research, Kolding School of Design, the Danish Museum of Art & Design, and The Danish Design School. MOKO's research projects are defined in a close collaboration with the danish fashion industry and the fashion education programmes at the Danish design schools. The goal of Moko Phase 2 is to create the basis for additional funding to ensure and anchor Danish fashion research.

- Julie Sommerlund,  The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design

The purpose of the PhD project is to achieve a better understanding of the capacity of new narrative forms to enhance a person's (or an institution's) awareness of a social situation or new social possibilities.

- Eva Knutz,  Kolding School of Design

This project aims to explore the interaction of ethical and aesthetic values in sustainable design with the purpose of promoting sustainable production and adding precision and nuance to the public and professional debate about design and sustainability.

- Vibeke Rytter,  Kolding School of Design

- Poul Rind Christensen,  Kolding School of Design

The project is an extension of Maria Mackinney-Valentin's PhD dissertation On the Nature of Trends: A Study of Trend Mechanisms in Contemporary Fashion.

- Maria Mackinney-Valentin,  The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design

The topic of this project is the internal structure and method of design research in a Danish context. An empirical study of research methods that are used by design researchers in Denmark and other countries forms the basis for a description of the challenges facing design researchers in their scientific practice. Based on the empirical work in the project a theory is developed for a constructing epistemology in the field of design research.

- Thomas Leerberg,  Aarhus School of Architecture

The project examines what strategies exist in practice-based design research for addressing specifically aesthetic or experiential issues in practice-based design research - nationally as well as internationally. The project also aims to describe the underlying theories of science and design that form the basis for the research results of the chosen strategies.

- Strategies for Addressing Aesthetic Issues in Practice-Based Design Research,  The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design

- Tacit knowledge – developing a didactic for design projects,  The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design

The purpose of the project is to publish the anthology Den industrielle stol (The industrial chair), which analyses various chair types and the technological, production-related and cultural features that condition their development and use.

- Ida Engholm,  Danish Centre for Design Research

This pre-doc project aims to explore Interior Designers' Education and, not least, the wide range of their practice. The purpose is to enhance the understanding of 'professional interior design' as a cultural and historical phenomenon - and as concrete practice.

- Malene Lytken,  The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design

- Vibeke Riisberg,  Kolding School of Design

- The role of failure,  The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design

This pre-doc project aims to investigate the importance of type design for social, cultural and corporate identity. The project sets out to chart the relationship between typography and identity, the historical development of the field and how this relationship is produced and decoded today.

- Type and identity,  The Royal Danish School of Fine Arts, School of Architecture

- Sofie Beier,  The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design

The purpose of this project is to establish new knowledge about information graphics and user-involving methods through literature studies.

- Pia Pedersen,  Kolding School of Design

The project aims to develop a virtual museum for a virtual reality. As an outcome of the project, Webmuseum.dk was launched in 2010.

- Ida Engholm,  Danish Centre for Design Research

The purpose of the project is to prepare a book based on three workshops carried out in a previous project titled Temaklyngen XLab (XLab thematic cluster). The three workshops in the thematic custer studied the roles of programme, intervention and participation in experimental design research. This may relate to the researcher's own design experiments, research interventions into other people's design efforts, and studies of the acquisition of design in an everyday practice.

- Thomas Binder,  The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design