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
Social Design Symposium at Lancaster University
Social Design Symposium at Lancaster University Social Design Unit was invited to be part of the Social Design Symposium, one of the flagship events of the Festival of Futures. The Festival of Futures took place from 8th to 15th of March at Lancaster University and consisted of various satellite events, [...]
CoDesign4Transitions (CoD4T) – Call for applications closed
CoDesign4Transitions (CoD4T) – Call for applications closed The call for the 13 PhD positions within MSCA Doctoral Network CoDesign4Transitions is now closed. The call was a great success as it has reached a high number of applicants: In total 698 applications sent by 298 different people. Now the MSCA Doctoral [...]
Anticipating Sustainable Energy Futures workshop at Politecnico di Milano
Anticipating Sustainable Energy Futures workshop at Politecnico di Milano The Social Design Unit visited Politecnico di Milano to give a workshop on Design for Sustainaible Energy Futures for 22 students at POLI-Designs MA Service Design program. The students were asked to take an experimental design fiction approach to fundamentally rethink [...]
Co-designing new support practices with young children in grief
Co-designing new support practices with young children in grief The Social Design Unit initiates a new DFF-funded research project focusing on children (aged 6-10) in grief due to parental loss. As a central part of the project, PhD researcher Kirstine Skov Hansen will be responsible for studying children’s grief support [...]
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
