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
Videnskab.dk publishes article on the SAC Project
Videnskab.dk publishes article on the SAC Project Dec. 8 Interview with Thomas Markussen about the aim and challenges of the project. In the article leading international researcher Professor Adele Jones from the University of Huddersfield comments on the potential of transferring social games to prisons in other countries. [...]
Meeting with professor Anna Piil Damm
Meeting with professor Anna Piil Damm December 9, we had a fruitful meeting with professor Anna Piil Damm, Dep. of Economics and Business & TrygFonden’s Centre for Child Research at Aarhus University. In the meeting we discussed how to proceed with the our development and implementation of methods of [...]
Visit from: Designing out crime research centre at university of technology Sidney
Visit from: Designing out crime research centre at university of technology Sidney November 3-4 (2016), we had the pleasure of welcoming Rohan Lulham and Douglas Tomkins from the Designing out Crime Research Centre at University of Technology Sidney to SAC. We share a lot of common interests and had [...]
Interviews by Danmarks Radio / P1 Morgen og DR Trekanten
Interviews by Danmarks Radio / P1 Morgen og DR Trekanten Wednesday March 16 interviews with Thomas Markussen about the Social Games against Crime project were broadcast on two DR channels: P1 Morgen and DR Trekanten.
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
