Richard Topgaard
Social media strategist and developer, interested in transmedia, open-access publishing and Creative Commons. Working with organizational collaboration strategies, video and text production and "omvärldsbevakning". Is on parental leave 2 days/week fall of 2011.
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E-mail: richard.topgaard@mah.se
Twitter: twitter.com/topgaardPosts by Richard
CoderDojo: a movement of coding clubs for young people
CoderDojo is a movement that started in Ireland, aiming to help children learn computer programming. The meetings in Malmö gather children and youths from all over the city. So far, the Malmö organizers have focused on three areas: web development, game development and physical computing/Internet [...]
The Video Journal section of ACM’s Computers in Entertainment seeks submissions
Scholarly communication has for a long time relied on the medium of text. In the academic field of interaction design, much of what is talked about is centered on experience, which is obviously hard to communicate in text. The ACM journal Computers in Entertainment recently launched the video journa [...]
Call for Submissions: Making Futures – Challenging Innovation (PDC workshop, Aug 13, Roskilde)
In this PDC 2012 workshop, we will challenge the logic of innovation by exploring the potential of participatory design cases that demonstrate a repertoire of differently situated practices of ‘future-making’; futures made locally, in heterogeneous communities, and with marginalised publics. The [...]
Support the Granny Invasion! Target: 10,000 grannies and $50,000 !
“Why are most stories never told? And who gets to choose the ones that are?”. That are the questions director Hanna Sköld asks in her campaign on crowdfunding site Kickstarter, a campaign that aims for $50,000 and 10,000 granny-stories. See the promotion video embedded below, or here on [...]
Lecture: Internet of Things – how your everyday life will be affected
We have gotten used to computers, smart phones, iPads, even to wearing small computer-like gadgets around our wrist when we’re working out – then imagine what happens when all these things connect to each other and with you. Add the computers we have in our homes, cars, elevators, dishwa [...]
Homo Explorens: Designing for embodied social play
It is our pleasure to invite you to the 50-percent seminar of interaction design PhD student Mads Høbye whose work deals with the concept of designing for Homo Explorens. The seminar takes place in the Medea studio on Monday, April 23. (more…) [...]
Lecture: A Human Centered Approach for Design for Services – Anna Meroni
ANNA MERONI, PhD, is a scholar and professor in Service and Strategic Design at Politecnico di Milano. She works on design activism, social innovation and sustainability, with a specific focus on food and housing systems. In her talk she introduces and discusses a framework of how design for service [...]
Medea research on linking design and social innovation featured in Knowledge Connect
Medea research on design for social innovation has been featured in Knowledge Connect, a site where the latest thinking on “social impact” is reviewed. A recently published article in Co-Design by Hillgren et al is reviewed and, in another article, the research environment at Medea is pl [...]
Building knowledge around collaborative media design: an interview with Jonas Löwgren
The academic journal Designs for Learning recently published an interview with Medea’s Jonas Löwgren. In the article they discuss the emerging field of collaborative media, the highly cited book Thoughtful Interaction Design and concepts such as experiential qualities, pliability and interact [...]
