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
HERACLES project kick-off in Germany
HERACLES project kick-off in Germany Our new EU-funded project HERACLES was officially initated with a kick-off seminar where we presented the cancer patient empowerment kit and gave a workshop with patients, health professionals and health innovation companies giving us their valuable inputs on how to proceed with the [...]
Meeting with the London Design Team
Meeting with the London Design Team On October 17 we paid Central Saint Martins a visit to give a talk at the Department of Communication Design, which has dedicated a full semester for their students to explore social games. We also met up with our good colleagues [...]
Practice-based design research – now as paperback
Practice-based design research - now as paperback Bloomsbury has now announced that the book Practiced-based design research will come out as paperback in January 2019. The book is edited by Laurene Vaughan and includes contributions from scholars all around the globe on various issues of doing research through design [...]
Channel 1 on Danmarks Radio features the SAC project
Channel 1 on Danmarks Radio features the SAC project Hosts Karen Secher and Tore Leifer invited us into the studio to play a few rounds of our board game FÆNGSLET and to talk about what children can get out of playing with their incarcerated fathers. Listen to the feature [...]
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
