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 oct 2007)
It has already been shown that practice-oriented the approach 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)
paper: Future Mapping
Proceedings: ECCIX, (2007)
In this paper we present the term"Future Mapping", an alternative approach to futures research. With future mapping we intend to overcome some of the main problems that we encountered when applying scenario thinking in the area of product design and innovation. Future mapping attempts to develop multi-layered maps of possible futures, which can be used by pro-active companies and innovation teams as an instrument to ‘navigate’ the future. >> download paper (pdf 1.2 mb)
paper:Bottom-Up Strategies in Consumer-led Markets
Proceedings: 2nd International Seville Seminar on FTA, (2006)
Future studies are traditionally based on a top-down approach, but in consumer-led markets - where it is subtle innovation features that make the difference between success and failure - managers experience that the approach is counter-productive. In reality it is often the emerging insights and innovations from those efforts that set the direction for the development of a strategy and this paper explain how a central "Innovation Map" may integrate the best of both approaches. >> download paper (pdf 0.2 mb)
slides:Bottom-Up Strategies in Consumer-led Markets
Presentation: 2nd International Seville Seminar on FTA, (2006)
This is the slides that was presented along with the paper of the same name. It uses rich imagery to explain the nature of contemporary and future markets. >> download slides (pdf 1.2 mb)
draft:Info-Graphic Typologies
An overview of different typologies of information graphics (2005)
No matter how you look at the world it will at first be at chaotic and complex phenomenon to understand. Even the most simple problem consists of many factors that are connected. Visualizations can enable people to handle more information at the same time and allow insights to emerge from a large amout of information. There is not much research done in the area of visualizations, so to get started Max Munnecke has made the following collection of information graphics. >> download draft (pdf 4.6 mb)
paper:Social Network Analysis of Communities
Draft Investigation (2005)
During the formulation of the Max Munnecke's PhD project he conducted an investigation of the state of the art of the theory that was related to “Foresight for Innovators”. Due to the open-ended nature of “foresight” and the just as multi-disciplinary relations of an innovator, it was soon obvious that a great number of different research areas were related and potentially could cross-pollinate the PhD project. During the first phase of the PhD study he continued this investigating in even broader terms, looking for any kind of entity that was either involved in innovation or foresight. >> download paper (pdf 0.9 mb)
