Together with our partners we shape and develop educational projects – often framed as a design brief – to be of value for the participating organization, students, and researchers. Among our collaborative partners are Kolding Libraries, Koldinghus, Kolding Municipality, Kolding Harbor, Cycling without Age, the Energy & Fibernet Provider EWII, among others.

Affects, Interfaces, Events is an on-going collaborative research project funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research, made by researchers from Aarhus University, The IT University, Roskilde University, Copenhagen University and SDU.

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Art and design activism are central for addressing commercial interests’ and Neoliberalism’s influence on public space and the accompanying diminishing of social equality, citizen rights and democracy. But how can art and design practices be used as aesthetic and critical practices to redistribute power relations, politics of space, citizenship and rights to the city. These and other issues have been the focus of our practical work, experimental exhibitions and writings for more than a decade – and will continue to be!

Events as Dissent was a 2-day research seminar arranged by the Social Design Unit in collaboration with Kristine Samson. Touring around three sites in Aarhus, participants were invited to take part in various activities that explored in what ways events may dissent existing cultural and capitalist system of power.

Agency in the city of Kolding was an exhibition arranged by the Social Design Unit in collaboration with Kathrine Dankl. Through 8 site specific interventions, artists and designers explored how the processes of making of and engaging with artifacts in urban space would question our traditional notions of scale and the agency of human and more-than-human actors.