Nordes13 Doctoral Consortium + conference
At last, its time for the Nordes13 conference, starting yesterday with a very stimulating doctoral consortium. I have been looking forward to this opportunity to meet with peers and learn from seniors...
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On Tuesday, the Nordes13 conference was dedicated to workshops, taking place at STPLN in Malmö. I had opted for the Experimenting with Design Experiments workshop, focused on ‘understanding of the...
View ArticleHandheld coding & thoughts on the science of design research
Finally got round to actually working with the empirical material from my two workshops at Designmuseum Danmark. What’s more, I think I’ve found my handle on it too, after battling through...
View ArticleHybrids, commercialisation, and academic Anglo-Saxon
Yesterday I attended a one day national conference on ‘The Hybrid Museum’, arranged by the Danish consortium for museum research, to address these issues: In recent years, the boundaries between...
View ArticleCoDesign, critique and conundrums
As of last week and until the end of the year, I have moved quarters and am now a visiting researcher at the CoDesign research cluster at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of...
View ArticleMusealisation of personal objects
Working on my third article, about the museum gaze and museum objects, last week I came across three very different participatory projects that all resonated with me. In different ways, they inspired...
View ArticleAesthetic experiences in the everyday
In the 2006 article ‘Aesthetic Experience in everyday worlds’, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht ‘reclaims the utopian motif’ that aesthetic experiences may occur in the everyday. The article builds on the ideas...
View ArticleMirrorball museology
[sketch for a prologue] Glitter banner (acrylic binder, glitter, velvet) & photo by Lise Haller Baggesen Ross 2011 A common, or readily comprehensible, metaphor for scientific research is shining a...
View Article‘Innovation rhetoric as a tool for publicity and fundraising’
Screenshot from Twitter It’s rather quiet on the blog, as I’m knuckling down to finish my thesis. But I had to share this clip, because it’s so much in tune with what I’m writing. The link that Mia...
View ArticleDancing museum
If Tate Modern was Musée de la danse, May 16th 2015 Standing in the Turbine Hall, I gape as the wondrous, gigantic mirrorball slowly descends from the ceiling, and watch the specs of light travel...
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