ABOUT US
The social design research group was established in 2015 at the Department of Design, Media and Educational Science / SDU
The social design research group was established in 2015 at the Department of Design, Media and Educational Science / SDU
The group has a keen interest in how people can be involved in participatory design processes leading to social value for the individual and society at large. By social value, we refer to changes at a human scale that is felt to be beneficial for marginalised or vulnerable societal groups and communities.
The group has a keen interest in how people can be involved in participatory design processes leading to social value for the individual and society at large. By social value, we refer to changes at a human scale that is felt to be beneficial for marginalised or vulnerable societal groups and communities.
Design research practice is essential for our work
We use design methods to make sense of wicked problems, as a way of engaging and co-designing with people and as a process of making artefacts or services enabling people to cope with difficult situations in life.
Through a number of research projects we have documented our ability to evaluate social design outcomes by bridging disciplines from the human and social sciences.
RESEARCH AREAS
In our social design unit we are concerned with the urgent societal need for rethinking core services of the Scandinavian and European welfare states. In particular, our research projects lies within the following four areas:
NEWS
“First-mover” talk on the collaboration between Enner Mark State Prison and SDU
Today, SDU hosted one of its so-called First Mover morning meetings where prison officer and child responsible Henrik Jørgensen, from Enner Mark State Prison - together with Thomas - told about the development and especially the collaboration concerning the board game Captivated. It was an entertaining morning where both "pitfalls" [...]
CAPTIVATED on show at the Prison Museum Horsens. We went to see the exhibition!
The Prison Museum is located in the historic buildings of the former Horsens State Prison. Here the Museum of Horsens has recreated a unique interactive experience of life behind bars through sound, moving-images and the prisoners' belongings such as homemade tools and self-created games. The Social Games Against crime project [...]
CAPTIVATED presented at the “Games un-plugged” seminar
Captivated presented at the "Spil uden strøm" seminar, Aalborg University, Copenhagen At the seminar "Spil uden strøm" (Eng. Games un-plugged) we gave a presentation of Captivated for an engaged audience together with a series of prominent speakers who all work with games and play in industry, education or academia. [...]
Thomas Markussen
thma@sdu.dk +45 93507196
Eva Knutz
evak@sdu.dk+45 93507135
University of Southern Denmark
Department of Design, Media and Educational Science
Universitetsparken 1
6000 Kolding, Denmark
