slides:Connecting'07
Idsa annual conference: Connecting'07, (san francisco oct 2007)
For the very first time the practice-oriented approach to "Designing Everyday Life" is presented to a truly international audience at the World Design Congress organized by Icsid and IDSA. The slides are mainly visualizing the ideas presented in the paper "Future Practices" but there has also been integrated some newly developed models and diagrams which explain in detail the dynamics of everyday life. >> download paper (pdf 1.3 mb)
paper:Future Practice
Proceedings: Connecting'07, (san francisco 0ct 2007)
It has already been shown that practice-oriented approaches is capable of describing everyday life in ways that are relevant for designers. In this paper we extend the framework to include the context of practices in order to understand and envision the change and continuity of everyday practices over time. Finally a simple process is outlined to give an concrete example of how design team could execute a project. >> download paper (pdf 0.1 mb)
slides:Design-Match
Key Note Presentation: Design Match, (sep 2007)
Design Match 2007 was an intensive one-week workshop with 120 design students from 3 different design schools in Denmark. Their brief was to present out-of-the-box innovations for 24 companies in the year 2009 and 2019. These slides introduce “practice-oriented” thinking to the students and prepares them to work with the fundamental dynamics of everyday life. >> download paper (pdf 2.0 mb)
workshop:Creative Worktools
Place: Technical Universtity of denmark
Date: sep-dec 2006.
Duration: 3 months.
Innovation and design is no longer reserved for specialized designers, but becoming an integrated part of most professionals work. In concequence there is an emerging market for creative worktools underway and with this design project we explore the opportunities that lay ahead. One particular promising concept is developed in detail. >> go to workshop
workshop:The Future of Printing
Place: Technical Universtity of DELFT, THE NETHERLANDS
Date: November 2005.
Duration: 3 weeks.
What is going to happen to the market of professional printers when all information is digitalized? A market leading manufacturer of printers asked a group of students to look 20 years ahead in time and explore the opportunities that lay ahead. The students used context analysis, trajectory maps, scenarios, personas, day-in-a-life and many more methods to support their final proposals. >> go to workshop
