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The full name is ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, but everybody just calls it CHI. It is the most important academic conference in the field of human-computer interaction and interactio [...]
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 [...]
[PUBLICATION] This video article, published in the Video Journal section of ACM’s Computers in Entertainment, discusses the experiential qualities of the Mediated Body concept developed by PhD student Mads Høbye. [...]
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 tex [...]
In this 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 lo [...]
JEANNETTE GINSLOV is Medea’s Artist in Recidence this spring. Her roots are as a performer, choreographer and artistic director in South Africa, but her currant work centers around affect, haptic and digital materialit [...]
“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 $50,0 [...]
The Swedish Television and CIRCOM Regional invite you to a conference interesting for everyone in the media industry. The list of speakers are impressive and the topics range from Social Media and Transforming Audiences, [...]
In co-production with Medea, Markus Wiklander has been able to merge his interests to develop a platform for planning live concerts: Emues.com. – The idea of our model is to give more power to the people. It [...]
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 oth [...]
[PUBLICATION] This short paper presents the initial steps in the establishment of Fabriken (the Factory) which is an open maker-space, and lab space for creating and experimenting with technologies. By Elisabet M. Nilsso [...]
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 M [...]
What is a “designerly way of working”? In this keynote from the Interaction 2012 conference in Dublin, interaction design professor Jonas Löwgren talks about his view of what the core elements of design are. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 Interac [...]
[PUBLICATION] In exploring how design could support socially shaped innovation, the paper discusses the experience of designing Fabriken, a socially shaped infrastructure for socially shaped innovation. This article is t [...]
[PROJECT PORTFOLIO] Making Futures is a book that is in the making; a collected edition of stories written by people that for many years have been working with and thinking about innovation, design and democracy. By shar [...]
You might have heard me say that design and academic research overstates the importance of ideas for innovation, that ideas are in fact cheap and easy to produce, and that the real challenges lie in the execution. Perhap [...]
The documentary Design the New Business explores how the design and business fields are starting to influence each other: designers acknowledge the importance of business models, business people acknowledge the importanc [...]
[PUBLICATION] Creative use of networked wireless communications devices contributes to a vibrant strand of media art called locative media. Now it is time for dancers and choreographers to contribute to the critical and [...]
Global innovation marketplace Innocentive has teamed up the the Economist and created a challenge where you should (1) find an open data set from a local government, (2) design a utility that would make the city/town/nei [...]
We’re glad to announce that several contributions from Medea researchers have been accepted to the prestigious CHI conference. These papers will be presented in Austin in May this year. A concept for collaborative [...]
[PUBLICATION] Collaborative media refers to digital media where people outside the traditional media industries participate in production as well as infrastructural design. Article by Löwgren and Reimer to be presented [...]
[PUBLICATION] In this paper we reflect upon design at a conceptual level, discussing how creativity can be coupled with participation and experience and looking for the experiential grounds of our understanding of the ve [...]
[PUBLICATION] The Touchbox is about facilitating intriguing touch interaction between strangers and illustrates a novel approach to embodied interaction design where social norms are transcended. Article by Mads Høbye t [...]
Media Evolution recently released the publication Internet of Things: how media industries can benefit from a network of connected things. Medea’s David Cuartielles and Richard Topgaard contributed. Download the pu [...]
As the School of Arts and Communication was founded with the inauguration of Malmö University in 1998, the key idea was to address the future of computers as media for human communication, by combining interaction desig [...]
[PUBLICATION] In this paper, aspects of interaction design related to the appearance and context of dual-natured design objects are investigated. Questions on how to give up control of your design and at the same time in [...]
DAVID CUARTIELLES is a researcher at Malmö University and one of the founders of the revolutionary open-source microcontroller Arduino. On March 1, David Cuartielles gave a Medea Talk about the history of Arduino, and a [...]
Terms like multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity have recently been at the center of a lively debate among scholars and practitioners investigating the epistemological borders and practices of [...]
The newspaper is a dying breed. In fact, Philip Meyer predicted in his 2004 book that the final copy of the final newspaper will appear on someone’s doorstep one day in 2043. Anna Benckert, interaction design maste [...]
Jonas Stenberg, Axel Jacobson, Ivar boson and two former classmates started the company Ixagon after graduating from the interaction design programme at Malmö University. They now work closely with the university’s re [...]
This weekend (January 27-29) Arabic Game Jam enters Malmö – gathering 50 game developers and people interested in games. By cross-fertilizing Arabic cultures with game development, the aim is to develop games and game [...]
There is a website that pumps poetry at breakneck speed, 24/7. Trivialities, death, grief and love; instant poetry authored by millions of unknowing but ego-centric Twitter users around the world. This was one of the res [...]
[PUBLICATION] This article presents Mediated Body, an exploration into designing for engaging experience in embodied interaction. By Mads Høbye and Jonas Löwgren, published in open-access journal International Journal [...]
How can interactive instruments and environments support active and creative learning experiences? During the fall, MEDEA’s Living Lab the Stage has in collaboration with Rösträtt, The School of Education and Soc [...]
[PROJECT PORTFOLIO] AffeXity is an interdisciplinary, collaborative, social choreography project drawing together dance, geo-spatially tagged visual imagery, and people using mobile-networked devices. Located in Medea’ [...]
[PUBLICATION] Design methods and tools have recently been applied in new fields, one of them being social innovation. This article discuss and suggest some approaches and concepts related to design for social innovation. [...]
Interaction-design.org is a highly successful community dedicated to giving free access to world-class educational materials. The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction is at the core of their activities and the most [...]
[PUBLICATION] This article discusses how design research community takes the challenge of “drawing things together” seriously, and that we in our pragmatic and designerly way try to put science and technology studies [...]
Fredagen den 16 december 15-17.00 bjuder vi in till en After Work i Medeastudion som eftermiddagen till ära pyntats med kulturproduktioner, kulörta lyktor och interaktiva gestaltningar. Stämningen förhöjs extra av [...]
The News Media Concept Lab at Medea has built a simple demonstrator called Lunch? Yes, the question mark is part of the name, and the reason is that it helps you find friends to have lunch with. After leaving your office [...]
[PUBLICATION] This article discusses the nature of enabling platforms and how they could be designed referring to a concrete case: the establishment of the fabrication space Fabriken in Malmö, Sweden. By Anna Seravalli [...]
The Danish Alexandra Institute – a non-profit company that works with application-oriented IT research – has found a great way of presenting academic research to non-experts: the comic book. In the publicatio [...]
This internet connected doorlock started as an idea during the 48h Hackathon event hosted by MEDEA and STPLN in february as an opening party of the prototyping lab Fabriken. The doorlock project have since then lived on [...]
[MEDEA INSIGHT] Interactivity, inclusion and participation are key words that many professionals strive for. But how do you actually create engaging digital interactions, that triggers participants curiosity and motivati [...]
Jeannette Ginslov’s work centers around affect, haptic and digital materiality on several platforms: stage, screens, online and new media applications. Ginslov is currently working with Prof Susan Kozel at MEDEA [...]
Asta Wellejus, Martin Ericsson and Matt Costello were but three of the thought-leaders invited to present their take on what the cross-/transmedia landscape looks like today, and where it’s heading. These are the v [...]
[PROJECT PORTFOLIO] This pilot project explores new interactive instruments and environments and pedagogical models for singing and creating music in pre-schools. [...]
[MEDEA INSIGHT] Welcome to join the Open Culture Seminar where we address the possibilities and challenges of open culture production. This is for you who are interested to learn about open licenses and open content for [...]
Providing open data is of interest for both its societal and its commercial value, but also for transparency and because more people can do fun things with the data. But how do you provide access to data so it can be mos [...]
[PUBLICATIONS] This book offers an innovative view of design thinking and design practice, envisioning ways to combine creative design with a participatory approach encompassing aesthetic and democratic practices and val [...]
Lucy Suchman is a Professor of Anthropology and Co-Director of Lancaster’s Centre for Science Studies. Her research has involved ethnographic studies of everyday practices of technology design and use. Lucy Suchman’s [...]
Last week the annual PICNIC Festival took place in Amsterdam. During three days, people from a wide range of backgrounds came together to talk about urban future scenarios, and discuss how our cities can adopt to the cha [...]
The blog Curating Media & Design is an academic news service where we share links to relevant books, articles and CFP within academic subjects related to media and design. You can subscribe to this news service by e [...]
Alone or not: perception, body and social media is a networked choreographic space for creating and exchanging bodily experiences. Participants send short SMS messages or tweets about their movement, actions and percepti [...]
A series of open lectures on the theme “design?!” will be offered this autumn to new and old members of the. Fabriken community at STPLN. Watch the lecture on From Form to Transformation here! [...]
As a member of illutron, Mads Høbye – MEDEA PhD student in interaction design – was asked by SonyEricsson to challenge the more conventional usage of mobile technology, by exploring alternative usage scenari [...]
Baltic Movement Conference is a meeting of dance practitioners, theoreticians, managers of culture and people experienced in promoting and supporting dance. MEDEA professor Susan Kozel was one of the keynote speakers at [...]
We were glad to learn that one of the concepts developed in the Living Lab the Stage has been picked up by tech entrepreneurs in Sweden. Meet Larger Than Live! One of the projects within Living Lab the Stage is called Cr [...]
The closing keynote speaker of The Conference was Riyaad Minty who leads the Al Jazeera Network’s social media initiatives and oversees Al Jazeera’s conversations across Facebook, Twitter and other social media p [...]
On The Conference, under the heading Creation, three creators discussed how to create with fans and how to build on other people’s work. See this presentation by Kirby Ferguson, Hanna Sköld and Unni Drougge and le [...]
One of the main themes of The Conference was “Man & Machine” dealing with, for instance, the notion of Internet of Things. This is a field we at MEDEA will start digging much deeper into over the coming [...]
The Conference is a – you guessed it – conference where people from the media industries meet to discuss the future. This year’s conference deals with three main themes: future audiences, future technol [...]
Google Scholar is one of the easiest tools to use for you who are interested in keeping up with the latest research in any given subject field. Google Scholar is, for sure, not all-encompassing and not all articles are a [...]
[PUBLICATION] This paper is located at the juncture of philosophical and artistic research, offering the second in a series of phenomenologically informed methods relevant to the design and creative use of mobile digital [...]
The biannual NordMedia conference took place on August 11-13 in Iceland at the University of Akureyri (Háskólinn á Akureyri). The conference theme was “Do the Right Thing” and MEDEA and Malmö University’s S [...]
Periphèria is an EU funded innovation project where researchers and citizens from five European “smart” cities work together to promote sustainable lifestyles. By using Internet platforms and services, such as senso [...]
X is a designer/researcher. His work focuses on how to help social movements to develop practices for spreading news and information in ways that do not rely on the Internet as main platform of communication, but rather [...]
A very simple deployment of the Internet of Things has been developed by researchers from several universities in the UK. Their project is called Tales of Things and Electronic Memory which is about linking everyday obje [...]
[STUDENT WORKS] Silvia Venditti just graduated from the Interaction Design Masters Programme at K3, Malmö University. Her thesis “Shared Resources, Calm Applicances: Sustainable Interaction and Care in Housing Con [...]
Anders Emilson is a PhD student in interaction design with a focus on design for social innovation. Last week, MEDEA hosted a seminar where Emilson led a discussion on the topic “Designing With the Bees and the Tre [...]
[PUBLICATION] In recent years, design for social innovation has emerged as a new research field. Design has been acknowledged by public agencies and NGOs as one of the tools to tackle the complexity of social issues. How [...]
More than half the population on Earth now lives in cities. This poses a great threat to communal resources like water and waste management, but also gives opportunities: people living more densely means that there are e [...]
Arduino is an acclaimed open-source microcontroller that was recently mentioned at the Google I/O conference where they announced that the Android development team has created a toolkit that allows developers and designe [...]
Within academia, peer-reviewing is the backbone of quality assurance and a practice where people in your academic field evaluate what you have achieved and make suggestions for improvement. Peer-reviewing takes place at [...]
In the end of May Living Lab Fabriken at STPLN organised a workshop weekend focusing on the themes Re-use, Re-Pair, and Re-claim. Two days full of experimental open workshops, and activities were offered to the particip [...]
[READINGS] The Internet of Things and Material Media are of great concern to us at MEDEA. This article gives you suggestions for readings in the field, such as a conference on how to use existing and emerging technologie [...]
Now I’m finally in place as the new director of Medea and the start has been intense, vibrant and energetic. Medea is a moving and inspiring environment and in its organizational design it is in itself a manifestat [...]
The Internet of Things is a way of describing an envisioned future where not only computers and mobile phones are connected to the Internet, but also everyday objects through the use of sensors. Any object could be equip [...]
It has been a while since Alice E. Marwick’s dissertation “Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity, and Self-Branding in Web 2.0″ circulated on the social web but, as you all know, academic dissertations ar [...]
One of the most prestigious academic journals in the field of design history, theory, and criticism is Design Issues, published by MIT Press since 1984. It is a toll-access journal, meaning that you have to pay to access [...]
TALAN MEMMOTT is an acknowledged writer and critic of electronic literature, who has taught at Blekinge Tekniska Högskola for several years. He is also working on a PhD in interaction design at Malmö University, which [...]
The practice of web publishing (in the forms of blogs, microblogs etc) is characterized by a “publish, then filter” model, meaning that whoever can publish whatever without asking a publisher for permission o [...]
[VIDEO LECTURE] Takeshi Sunaga is professor of Information Design at the Tama University of the Arts in Tokyo. While in Malmö, he dropped by MEDEA and gave a lecture about his work on a new approach in design education. [...]
I was contacted by a journalist regarding the latest Google I/O keynote that happened yesterday. For those of you not familiar with that yearly event, it is when Google announces its latest projects, presents gadgets,int [...]
YVONNE SPIELMANN is Chair of New Media at The University of the West of Scotland. Her lecture/seminar Video Aesthetics: from Technology to Medium held at MEDEA on May 4 is based on the book Video: The Reflexive Medium, p [...]
Here are three articles that caught my attention last week: first, a piece on how you evaluate the reliability a Wikipedia entry, then a reflection on what defines citizen journalism in the light of “the man who tw [...]
JUSSI PARIKKA is the director of the Cultures of the Digital Economy (CoDE) institute. His lecture Practicing Media Archaeology: Creative Methodologies for Remediation and Creation focuses on some ideas and examples from [...]
[VIDEO LECTURE] In the seminar held on April 27, Marttila aimed to shed light to some of the current understandings of the emerging field of Media Design and, furthermore, the seminar participants tried to map the charac [...]
Tantverket is a meeting place for all of you with an interest in needlework, and handicraft culture, hosted by Fabriken at STPLN. Every Thursday night 7 pm – 10 pm people gather to create things together, learn fro [...]
Before the Easter holidays, Oksana Mont posted an introductory text on why Sweden might be fertile ground for what is called “collaborative consumption” (read her article here). The article generated quite so [...]
Hooray, we finally implemented a decent comment system to our blog at medea.mah.se! For over a year we have been content with using the standard WordPress comment functionality. Now, after some peer-pressure (from e.g. A [...]
Arduino for hipsters is a workshop for beginners of the Arduino development platform. The idea is to work with people that aren’t really attracted to electronics as a subject but that have an interest in getting to [...]
David Cuartielles is at the HCI conference in Bangalore, India, and discovers copies of copies of Arduino boards: “If being copied is a sign of being into making something right, what does it mean that someone copi [...]
[VIDEO] Special FX icon Douglas Trumbull shares his experiences in visual effects, especially in the science-fiction genre. Using slides and video, he illustrated his most dramatic innovations of the past- and then turn [...]
Oksana Mont claims that Sweden is fertile ground for collaborative networks and ways of living and consuming, as there is a tradition of modesty, illustrated by the concept of “Lagom”. Read her article here! [...]
This post presents the sections/headlines that will be covered in the preliminary study. Please comment or sign up here to get involved! Initially, the Online Guide to Open Access Journals Publishing will serve as a star [...]
Update: scholareads.com is up-and-running! The Twitter hashtag #longreads is a tag people use to share “the best long-form stories on the web” (click here for an example). The idea is that people share the st [...]
Six thoughts on how you might get the most out of SmartShare in your organization, based on experience from a number of other cases of deploying new media to support collaboration. And, of course, based on the design int [...]
One of the projects running as part of MEDEA’s Living Lab the Stage is the transmedia enterprise Granny’s Dancing on the Table. This project won the prestigious ARTE Pixel Pitch Awards in London 2010. Every y [...]
This is a listicle* on games in learning. You might enjoy it if you’re looking for a point of entry to game studies in general and educational games in particular. Many thanks to Elisabet Nilsson for sharing these [...]
On May 21-22 Living Lab Fabriken organises a “Vårstädning” (spring-cleaning) with a special focus on Re-use, Re-Pair, Re-claim. Participants are welcome to fix their clothes, gadgets, bikes, or whatever they would [...]
RE-DESIGNING SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION AND ACADEMIC PUBLISHING The objective of this project is to investigate how the processes and practices of scholarly communication and academic publishing can be re-designed to be mor [...]
We have a blog where we share sketches and project ideas in new media and interaction design. The latest contribution is Face Twitch, a reaction-time game built during a tech workshop on rapid prototyping techniques comb [...]
I posted an article on the Arduino blog about my presence today at HCI India 2011 where I gave a keynote on the topic of prototyping, creating platforms, and supporting the community to support you as creator. It was an [...]
This weekend the idea competition Vision – Prototyp – Pitch was organised to celebrate the grand opening of STPLN, including MEDEA’s third Living Lab Fabriken. Talented innovators were invited to pitch their ideas [...]
There’s a meme saying that “on Facebook you tell lies to your friends, on Twitter you tell the truth to strangers”. However one-dimensional and untrue this might be, Twitter has become a powerful social [...]
Social curation of web content is a practice you engage in every day, sometimes even without being aware of it. Posting a link to your Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr (or Digg, Diigo or Delicious) is in essence you curating [...]
It’s time for a few stories that caught my attention last week: a critique on the logics of gamification, a highly successful student driven news site and an integration project using digital media to spark social [...]
Tumblr.com is a light-weight blogging tool, perfect for posting texts that are too long to tweet but too short to write a “real” blog post on by using Wordpress. This is a post on why and how you should use T [...]
Emergent by Design is a great blog that explores what is happening at the intersection of technology, communication, and culture. It’s run by Venessa Miemis who is currently pursuing a Masters in Media Studies at t [...]
Digital media conference SXSW Interactive brings together developers, thought-leaders and early adopters from all over the world. This is the industry conference where micro-blogging site Twitter reached its tipping-poin [...]
On March 25, musician, composer and performance artist Erik Bünger gave a lecture/performance at MEDEA as part of the K3 courses “Music in the Digital Media Landscape” and “Illustrating with Music̶ [...]
“Vision – Prototyp – Pitch” is an idea contest organised to celebrate the opening of the new STPLN, and MEDEA’s third Living Lab Fabriken. Sign up before March 30. [...]
Malmö University runs the one-year masters programme Communication for Development. Below is an excerpt of an article written by ComDev’ers Ylva Ekström, Hugo Boothby and Anders Høg Hansen where they try to und [...]
On April 2, Fabriken at STPLN in Västra Hamnen opens its doors to the public. To celebrate this grand day STPLN invites you to a day full of activities and happenings. Come and play in the workshop, try out machines and [...]
One of the emerging trends in our society where “social innovation” quickly has become a buzz-word is the notion of Collaborative Consumption, a concept that could be illustrated by the quote “why would [...]
Report part 5 of 5. South by Southwest (SXSW) is a set of film, interactive and music festivals and conferences that take place every spring (usually in March) in Austin, Texas, United States. It is a conference that att [...]
Did you miss world famous photographer Mary Ellen Mark’s lecture? You find it embedded below or on bambuser.com/channel/k3showroom. MARY ELLEN MARK is one of the most famous photographers in the world. She has ach [...]
Report part 4 of 5. South by Southwest (SXSW) is a set of film, interactive and music festivals and conferences that take place every spring (usually in March) in Austin, Texas, United States. It is a conference that att [...]
Report part 3 of 5. South by Southwest (SXSW) is a set of film, interactive and music festivals and conferences that take place every spring (usually in March) in Austin, Texas, United States. It is a conference that att [...]
DESIGNING SOCIAL AND PLAYFUL EMBODIED INTERACTION Mediated Body is a physical suit that facilitates social play between a performer and a participant. When they touch each other’s bare skin, they both hear a complex so [...]
Report part 2 of 5. South by Southwest (SXSW) is a set of film, interactive and music festivals and conferences that take place every spring (usually in March) in Austin, Texas, United States. It is a conference that att [...]
Report part 1 of 5. South by Southwest (SXSW) is a set of film, interactive and music festivals and conferences that take place every spring (usually in March) in Austin, Texas, United States. It is a conference that att [...]
KINAESTHETIC SOCIAL NETWORKING – TWEETING THE BODY Kinaesthetic Tweeting puts the body into social networking, making it an improvisational forum. Alone or Not is the next phase of the IntuiTweet project. It create [...]
The following is an interview with Jonas Löwgren from the February 2011 issue of SK Outlook, the internal company newsletter at Sigma Kudos. It has been edited slightly for external publication. – Hi Jonas, tell u [...]
This is the third post in a series I call A Quick Guide to Collaborative Media Tools (first post here, second post here). The purpose is to give a quick introduction to tools that are helpful when doing collaborative wor [...]
Do you ever dream of being able to write without being disturbed by incoming e-mails and facebook notifications? OmmWriter gives you a clutter-free word-processing interface with no menus, no spell check and no notificat [...]
In the end of January, Living Lab the Stage hosted a lecture with Dr. Maria Engberg, Blekinge Institute of Technology. She has done extensive research on digital literature and her PhD thesis is on digital poetry. The pu [...]
I’ve found a bunch of good reads this week and I’d love to share them with my colleagues. Topics range from journals practicing “cascading peer review”, how to hitch a ride with your mobile and en [...]
Jonas Löwgren gave a short presentation at the event “En Akademisk Kvart” about how the society is currently engaged in a collective experiment concerning how we should use the collaborative media. See the v [...]
Transmedia project Granny’s Dancing on the Table, in where MEDEA is a co-production partner, is this week working in public at the City Library in Malmö. The Granny’s team will involve the library’s vi [...]
Minecraft is a hugely successful independent game where you construct your own 8-bit-style gaming environment. The game first started out as a hobby project by Markus “Notch” Persson and is currently in alpha [...]
[PUBLICATION] Jonas Löwgren writes about how design-oriented researchers are starting to use richer media to disseminate their results and how effective that form of communication may be. [...]
This weekend (February 18-20) the 48 h D.I.Y event Hackathon took place in an industrial building, next to what is to become Fabriken at STPLN in Västra Hamnen. Some forty-fifty people contributed to the success of the [...]
Paul Kelly, Bob Stanley and Martin Theander discusses the film What Have You Done Today, Mervyn Day? A poetic documentary of the Lower Lea Valley, a part of London where the 20th century was born. [...]
On Saturday (Feb 19) between 12 am – 5 pm Otto von Busch will be attending Hackathon at Fabriken, and invites you to participate in an OpenSloyd workshop [...]
Malmö University is hiring a doctoral student in Media and communication studies within the research area New Media, Public Spheres and Forms of Expression. Apply by March 21st. [...]
Malmö University is hiring a doctoral student in Interaction design within the research area New Media, Public Spheres and Forms of Expression. Apply by March 21st. [...]
Sanna Marttila from the Media Lab of the Aalto University is a visiting researcher at MEDEA for the spring term 2011. Here’s an introduction to her work and interests. Read it! [...]
[PUBLICATION] The phenomenon and structures of collaborative crossmedia creation are arguably growing in importance, both as meaningful social practices engaging millions of people and as topics that deserve analytical t [...]
[PUBLICATION] As interaction design becomes increasingly culturally and socially complex, we will need both the “expert readings” of erudite critics and everyday design “crits” from practitioners to provide the k [...]
[PUBLICATION] Participatory design has become increasingly engaged in public spheres and everyday life and is no longer solely concerned with the workplace. This is not only a shift from work oriented productive activiti [...]
Välkommen till 48 h Hackathon på Fabriken den 18-20 februari! I samarbete med STPLN bjuder MEDEA in till Hackathon (hacker marathon) och inviger med det vårt tredje living lab: Fabriken. Hackathon på Fabriken är ett [...]
Last week a delegation of representatives from City of Malmö, Perfect Place, Media Evolution, and MEDEA went to Bilbao to visit DenokInn to learn more about how they work with social innovation and social entrepreneursh [...]
[PROJECT PORTFOLIO] Social Choreographies is a research initiative but is also a way of looking at the urban world: seeing how we already ‘dance’ with our technologies and how, if we feel like it, can enhance the emb [...]
[PUBLICATION] People depend on news to make sense of happenings in the world, but current digital news products do not live up to their potential in this regard. Interactivity in relation to news is often seen as a way t [...]
This is the first post in the series A Quick Guide to Collaborative Media Tools. The purpose is to give an introduction to tools that are helpful when doing collaborative work. The first post is about social bookmarking. [...]
For the past few months, I’ve spent a few hours every week on Twitter looking for scholars, PhDs, post-grad students etc within the field of new media (broadly speaking). The reason for this is the idea of social c [...]
A couple of months ago, I wrote a post on open-access academic journals, highlighting academic journals and articles that are freely available on the web. In this follow-up post I will give you a more comprehensive list [...]
Social Capital Markets (SOCAP) Europe had an open seminar on how to build a platform for funding of social entrepreneurship and social innovation in Europe at MEDEA. You can view all presentations here! [...]
[PROJECT PORTFOLIO] The aim of this project is to explore how book publishers can publish and market literature in the new media landscape. [...]
[PROJECT PORTFOLIO] Project that explores new forms of media production, services, and products in relation to live events. [...]
[PUBLICATION] In this book, a group of authors ranging from the founders of the field of interaction design to currently influential shapers of education and research provide their interpretation of experiences and chall [...]
Just before Christmas, professor John Downing gave a lecture at MEDEA where he explored the relation between media, communication and social change. This is your chance to see and listen to the lecture in it’s enti [...]
As artist-in-residence at MEDEA for the past 2 1/2 months, I’ve been honored to get-to-know Malmö, MEDEA and the innovation in sustainability at work within the region. I’ve enjoyed developing the following [...]
On February 18-20 Fabriken at STPLN organises “A 48 h Opening Hack Party” on the theme “Local Mobility”. Check out the STPLN web site for more information. [...]
On the relations between design research and commercial innovation, and specifically on how co-production plays a role in re-considering those relations. [...]
Designers Jörgen Abrahamsson and Johan Wastring met up with Jonas Löwgren at the Medea studio on December 14, 2010, to continue our little ongoing chat on ideas and possibilities in information visualization and intera [...]
Artistic research is an important and controversial topic in academic and professional artistic communities. But what is artistic research? What does it mean for an artist to get a PhD? This post by Susan Kozel tries to [...]
You’re invited to experience a behind-the-scenes view of some of the energy and environment-saving systems at work within the Västra Hamnen area – as viewed through a parascope. MEDEA Collaborative Media Ini [...]
Last week Anders Emilson and me, Anna Seravalli, participated at ServDes, the nordic conference on service design and service innovation in Linköping. The audience was composed by an interesting mix of practitioners, re [...]
In the beginning of next year, Living Lab Fabriken opens up its doors at Stapelbäddsparken in Västra hamnen, Malmö. During the autum three workshops have been carried out aiming at developing the framework of the lab [...]
[PROJECT PORTFOLIO] Living Lab Fabriken is an open lab space located at STPLN in Västra Hamnen, Malmö. Users (citizens, researchers, companies, public institutions, NGO’s etc.) that enter the lab get access to tools, [...]
[PUBLICATION] Even if we have seen an increasing interest in development of location-based services, traditionally research within mobile ICT has been dominated by a focus on global nets of information and media channels [...]
What do academics at MEDEA read? This is the starting point for the development of a library with books relevant to interaction designers, media and communication scholars, social innovators and service designers. And of [...]
A couple of days ago MEDEA said farewell to HER, and sent the piece off to the next stop on the tour organised by Riksutställningar. HER is a seven-channel video installation created by Candice Breitz, and screened in a [...]
[PROJECT PORTFOLIO] Media Places is a research project at MEDEA that is about going beyond the anywhere-anytime ideal of mobile and digital media, this in order to produce new knowledge on practices of mediated communica [...]
MEDEA Talks # 15 presents artist-in-residence Arlene Birt who speaks on the theme “Visualizing Sustainability” and how to communicate consumers’ roles in social and ecological sustainability. She also p [...]
[PROJECT PORTFOLIO] The objective of Periphèria is to deploy convergent Future Internet (FI) platforms and services for the promotion of sustainable lifestyles in and across emergent networks of “smart” peripheral c [...]
Photo applications such as Hipstamatic and Instagram have been much hyped this year. The reason, probably, is that random or selective manipulation of photos add life to the rather dull aesthetic qualities of pics snappe [...]
[PUBLICATION] Design för social innovation är ett nytt designforskningsområde som håller på att växa fram internationellt. Läs Anders Emilsons kartläggning om hur social innovation kan lösa många av samtidens k [...]
[PROJECT PORTFOLIO] The work has started in the News Media Concept Lab, where Medea and the leading regional newspaper Sydsvenskan together explore what the collaborative media and their use practices mean for establishe [...]
You are invited to participate in a small performance – or social choreography – as part of the opening of the HER exhibition on 17 November @ 17:00 (or you are invited to pass this message on to someone who might be [...]
I went to burning man in 2010 with the Mediated Body suit project and as an assistant to Interpretive Arsons interactive installation SyzyGryd. The art festival Burning Man started as an annual bonfire ritual on the beac [...]
The MEDEA project Granny’s Dancing on the Table won the prestigious ARTE Pixel Pitch Prize of 2010, in competition with 100 projects from 23 countries. Granny’s is a transmedia production where a feature film [...]
SUSAN KOZEL combines dance and philosophy in the context of new media. She works with bodies, ideas and technologies. She has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Essex, UK, and a long history of various movement t [...]
As a new professor here at MEDEA, the obvious question is what to post first ? So many directions could be pursued. I’ve decided to be project specific to begin with and use this site as a sort of Back Script for t [...]
It’s my first few days as artist-in-residence at MEDEA. I’m thrilled to be here, and will spend the first couple weeks collecting research and trying to get a better understanding of what kind of how I can sc [...]
[PROJECT PORTFOLIO] A platform to mediate collaboration between fans, venues and artists. The key idea is for fans to express interest in certain concerts based on artist and venue availability, to pledge intention to pa [...]
[PROJECT PORTFOLIO] Granny’s Dancing on the Table is a transmedia production that includes an on- and offline storyworld with strong gaming elements. Participants will contribute to the production of the movie, both cr [...]
Designers Jörgen Abrahamsson of Malmö City and Johan Nystrand of Google met up with Jonas Löwgren on Sept 28 to talk about information visualization. Much of the discussion centered on Manuel Lima’s Information [...]
NOTE: Nasty Old People will be broadcast on September 2nd at 22.45 on SVT2. Ever since the invent of the internet and the world wide web, copyright issues have been hotly debated. The discussions have often been extremel [...]
The media landscape of today is in many ways different than yesterday’s. We used to have only broadcast media, now we have collaborative media and social media. We used to have one-to-many-communication, now we hav [...]
During the Arduino Uno meetup at ITP, NYU, I had the chance to be introduced to Paola’s and Cecilia’s ideas on the use of paper and electronics in the creation of new interfaces. That time they made a worksho [...]
Robots are becoming a common educational resource. Together with other applied science fields like wearable computing, or music instrument design, robotics provides an alternative door into traditional fields like math a [...]
Before the Summer, we posted a little trivia quiz on the theme of classic quotes by artificial intelligences and other conversational pieces of software. Here are the answers. A. I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I [...]
[PROJECT PORTFOLIO] General purpose of this EU-project is to understand local media actors participatory innovation practices. Of specific importance is: What kind of interests in and motives for co-production activities [...]
MEDEA has spawned its first start-up! A group of interaction designers is starting the company PILO that will focus on developing smarter location based services. Update: the name of the company is now Ixagon, not PILO. [...]
Do you have a pathological desire to “check in” to the restaurants, pubs or public buildings you visit? Don’t you ever ask yourself WHY you do this? Some people say it’s territorial pissing, other [...]
Do you ever ask yourself where the ingredients of that chocolate bar have been produced? Do you have any idea of what the ecological footprint of the beer you’re drinking is? Interaction design students Joacim Löw [...]
Quick Pitch: DoDream is a platform where ideas meet supporting structures such as economic resources and development skills. The user is given the opportunity to describe and visualize her needs, dreams or ideas in order [...]
Quick Pitch: ParaPolis – Prototyping the City. Parapolis explores tools for urban planning by developing new forms of representations and processes for dialogue. By making scenarios of the future visible and tangib [...]
Quick Pitch: Urblove is a service that in an innovative way combines urban exploring and games, with user-created content. It is both a service for location based mobile games mainly in urban areas, as well as an online [...]
Quick Pitch: Liverse! is a platform for mobile communication in the context of live music performances. The aim is to enhance the live experience by facilitating communication with the audience before, during and after a [...]
Quick Pitch: The Magpie Nest is a collaborative Facebook application for up to eight participants that supports the team in reflecting and analysing corporate stories and dilemmas. With the Magpie Nest, transferring of k [...]
Quick Pitch: Din natur? (Your Nature?) is an interactive exhibition that opens in 2011 at Malmö Muséer. The exhibition partners have developed a tool for dialogue called Natursynsprofilen (literally “view of natu [...]
Quick Pitch: It’s My Experience is a web based editor where users can create location based games and experiences for mobile platforms. The editor is a tool for creating informal and contextualized learning and is easy [...]
The theme of the 2010 summer quiz is classic quotes by artificial intelligences and other conversational pieces of software. Here are seven quotes (A-G), most of them quite old. Try to identify who (1-6) said what. (Yes, [...]
Visualization designers Jörgen Abrahamsson and Johan Wastring met up with Jonas Löwgren of Medea to toss around ideas and constructive criticism on ongoing work. The general theme for the clinic was emergent glanceabil [...]
Stéphane Vincent is the executive director and founder of the French innovation lab La 27e Région. In this interview Vincent talks about the way La 27e Région works (friendly hacking) and how their work is received by [...]
This is a draught for a paper to the conference Journalism’s Next Top Model: Meeting the Cost of Journalism Tomorrow 8th and 9th June, 2010. Time ran out because of sick leave (knee surgery) for Pernilla and extrem [...]
The third day of (Re)designing the Regions was co-organized by the 27e Region and DESIS Europe Project (Design for Innovation and Sustainability). DESIS is a network of schools of design and other schools, institutions, [...]
2010 D. Cuartielles, Magic Piano at FARO's Clubhouse During the last two days I have been conducting a workshop for kids on the topic of electronics. The idea of this workshop is to warm up for a course to come later [...]
Bill Buxton is one of the founding fathers of HCI and interaction design. Few people have meant more than Bill when it comes to standing up for design-oriented values and practices in the engineering cultures of ICT and [...]
Well yeah, open source hardware talk at UAM Iztapalapa, a university close to FARO de Oriente next Monday. As usual I will be representing K3, Medea, my research interest, Arduino, and the Spanish Culture Center in Mexic [...]
The second day of (Re)designing the Regions started in Copenhagen with a trip to the innovation laboratory MindLab (Day 1 is covered here). Anne-Mette Scheibel gave a presentation of a few social innovation projects cond [...]
This is a paper for the Working Group for Media Production Research of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, 2010 Please, comments, views, other – thank’s! Title: Media practices [...]
As mentioned in a blog post yesterday, the French social innovation agency La 27e Région is on a study trip to the Öresund Region and MEDEA is taking on the role as co-hosts to the event. This is a recap of (a selectio [...]
I mean that it is possible to draw together knowledge of media production both from and to education and research, and that this shows a common movement of media production researchers moving into a more action oriented [...]
This week, I am doing some serious community volunteering in the production of the Arduino Reference in Spanish. In the early days of the Arduino project, back in 2006 and thanks to the work of mostly 3 people, we transl [...]
Two weeks out of every two months during the whole 2010 I work at FARO de Oriente, a culture center in Mexico DF. The project I develop here between 2009 and 2010 tries to bring open source tools in FARO’s everyday [...]
Our fourth Synthesize session focused on the nature and role of design synthesis as a method of generating knowledge and leveraging the nuances of both a unique design problem and a unique designer. We began by discussi [...]
Our third Synthesize session today focused on the nature of criticism, judgment, and point of view – and the nature of cultural performance in determining good from bad. We started by framing the role of judges, [...]
On Friday 14/5 the girl skater group Tösabidarna invited players to play games, previously created by themselves in workshops in co-operation with the Urblove project. The game was part of their annual Spring jam, and s [...]
The small space was crowded with people as 1scale1 conducted the first Factory workshop at Stapelbäddsparken Saturday the 8th of May. The air was thick with concentration as everybody draw different shapes and construct [...]
Our second Synthesize session led to a great discussion about the topic, “What is the role of prototyping in the context of a large-scale social problem?” After describing the various forms of prototyping av [...]
We had a successful first Synthesize discussion, in which we asked and attempted to answer: Are Wicked Problems Solvable? The conversation identified that there are a number of ways of addressing Wicked Problems, and bec [...]
JON KOLKO is an Associate Creative Director at Frog Design and he is MEDEA’s entrepreneur-in-residence in May. Kolko is also the Director of Austin Center for Design, a new educational institution in Austin, Texas. [...]
About a week ago, Tangram Film and Living Lab The Stage embarked on a new journey. Granny’s Dancing on the Table is a new movie from the creators of Nasty Old People, but this time the users will have a much greate [...]
I’ll be joining you at MEDEA in less than a month, and I want to invite you to a new discussion series that I’ll be hosting. Titled Synthesize, participants in the series will explore the role of design synth [...]
Granny’s Dancing on the Table, that’s the name of the new feature film directed and produced by the team behind the indie-distribution success Nasty Old People (read more about Nasty on Boing-Boing, on Torre [...]
MEDEA has launched an Entrepreneur in Residence Program. The idea is to bring exciting skills to the environment for a short period. The program seeks entrepreneurs highly skilled in working with new media and new innova [...]
One of the topics I work with as part of my research, is the creation of prototyping tools for education and how they help the creation of new businesses around them. I find very important the use of open source tools as [...]
General purpose of this EU-project is to understand local media actors participatory innovation practices. Of specific importance is: What kind of interests in and motives for co-production activities exist and why and h [...]
For two months, pro-am film makers from all over Malmö took part in the collecting of documentary video footage. Footage was uploaded by the participants to the City Symphony Portal and was disseminated for remixing by [...]
Kameraövervakning iscensätter det offentliga rummet (roughly translated CCTV Staging the Public Sphere) explored what production design for cross-media can look like. This was done by designing and carrying out a serie [...]
Jalla upp på scen (JUPS) is an annual talent show, hosted by the grassroots organization RGRA. The main objective of JUPS is to facilitate meetings between young people (aged 13-20) from every part of Malmö. The notion [...]
[PUBLICATION] This paper discusses the design of things. This is done in an attempt to conceptually explore some of the political and practical challenges to participatory design today. Which things, and which participan [...]
[PUBLICATION] Aesthetics in interaction design are too often equated with static appearance, i.e., how the screens and devices look. This article is an attempt to develop concepts more appropriate for talking about how t [...]
From the Urblove project: The first Urblove – Creating routes workshop was held at Lilla Växthuset in Hermodsdal on the first day of winter vacation week. On site, there were six participants from RGRA, and eight work [...]
By Jonas Löwgren It has been exactly twelve years since we started bringing media studies and interaction design together at Malmö University. Try to remember what the media were like back then. Be honest. If you are l [...]
This is a collection of new media work performed by Malmö University researchers and designers during 1998-2008, forming part of the basis for developing Medea. The projects featured in the showreel (each introduced in [...]
Researchers and designers from Malmö University, Interactive Institute and Animationens Hus (Eksjö) worked with Swedish Television (national public-service broadcaster) around the topic of young teenagers who want to c [...]
Malmöfestivalen is a one-week street festival held every year in mid-August in Malmö. In 2008, Inkonst worked with researchers and designers at Malmö University and with TAT to create a multi-perspective view of the f [...]
Musikhjälpen is a public service format originating in the Netherlands and aiming at raising funds for refugees shortly before Christmas by offering the audience the opportunity to pay for a song request. The first Musi [...]
Sharing and developing practical knowing is a challenge in any organization, and intensive care units in hospitals are no exceptions in this regard. Malmö University researchers initiated and facilitated a participatory [...]
Why do people engage in social activities around games? Can gamers and gaming communities be seen as resources in game design and innovation? What would such design processes be like, and how could we create platforms fo [...]
A pervasive learning game for junior high school students, based on the Environmental Detective game from the MIT Teacher Education program. Key learning ideas are to integrate the game storyline in the physical world a [...]
In collaboration with a range of media producers and researchers, Malmö University researchers set out to explore what the interactive media would mean to the media industry and its audiences. The project found, among o [...]
Based on the experience from Future News Media and other projects, Malmö University researchers joined an international consortium of fifteen high-ranking academic and industrial partners to look closer into future dire [...]
Media remix and creative appropriation are key elements in the interactive media, and Barcode Beats illustrates those principles perfectly. The key idea is to connect beats, loops and other musical elements to barcodes s [...]
Good World produced a series called Papas Kappsäck for Swedish Television, where artist and producer Papa Dee traveled the world in search for contemporary indigenous music culture. The series was nominated for the nati [...]
As an experiment in local empowerment, tactical media and place-specific computing, the Malmö New Media Living Lab and Do-Fi designed BT Buss, a simple device to ride on board city busses and push music to passengers th [...]
Google Wave has been hyped, debated and backlashed for a good three months, and it may be time for a little stock-taking. From my experience and what I read, it seems designed for work-related collaboration and it claims [...]
[PROJECT PORTFOLIO] This lab focuses on new ways to produce, promote, distribute and finance cultural productions as well as on ways to engage audiences in participating in professional creative processes. A particular e [...]
[PROJECT PORTFOLIO] The Neighbourhood aims at creating a co-production and innovation environment for collaborative services and social innovation anchored in a geographic environment in Malmö that, today, hardly is ass [...]
CAROL ARCHER is an Assistant Professor in the Visual Studies Department at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. She has had several exhibitions in Macau, Australia and Hong Kong. Archer also writes about art in Macao, Hong Kon [...]
Within the funding programme for ICT use, the national funding agency Vinnova is supporting demonstrator-oriented projects where companies work with academia and “problem owners” to create new concepts and stimulate [...]
In early 2008, Jonas Löwgren of Medea worked with IKEA IT to design the Pinpoint visualization. Briefly, it was intended to help knowledge workers in large organizations find answers to specific questions and to grow th [...]
Moving on from the three main design concepts, we started developing user-interface screens in early November. The work focused on the second concept (“Flickr”) since it is the one that requires the most spec [...]
[PROJECT PORTFOLIO] The technical information industry is more or less trapped in a traditional media structure, with technical writers and information architects producing static material that users are expected to cons [...]
The story has been all over the media: Rupert Murdoch, founder and CEO of the international publisher News Corp, criticized Google for stealing traffic from News Corp newspapers (since people use Google to find the mater [...]
ROBERT JACOBSON is the first entrepreneur-in-residence at MEDEA. He’s the Principal of Bluefire Consulting in Tucson, Arizona, and a Senior Innovation Management Consultant and Futurist with Gemba A/S, Vedbæk, Denmark [...]
It has been clear for quite some time that social mechanisms need to be leveraged to help people find relevant and useful online information. The sheer volume of available information, the inadequacy of creation-time met [...]
GK VAN PATTER is a well-known commentator on design and “design thinking.” His NextD series of monologues and interviews set the standard for discourse on design. Humantific, a firm he co-founded and directs, was fea [...]
MEDEA presents: Five Talks by World-Class Authorities on Innovation, Media, and Transformation from November 3 through November 17. Three talks have passed, but the two final ones are still to come. GK VanPatter speaks a [...]
ADAM GREENFIELD lives in a city, and thinks you probably do, too. Over the past several years, he says, we’ve watched as a very wide variety of objects and surfaces familiar from everyday life have been reimagined as n [...]
The second “24 hour business camp” event was concluded last week and the results have been moderately publicized. More specifically, the tangible results consist of some 60 business ideas, presented in one-minute pit [...]
MARC CANTER is CEO of Broadband Mechanics, which produces People Aggregator, a social networking tool. He’s a trained opera singer, father of five, change agent, and a 25+ year software veteran. At one point he was [...]
MARK ANDERSON is the CEO of the Strategic News Service newsletter read by Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Mark Hurd, and industry leaders and investors in computing and communications worldwide; and founding chair of the annua [...]
Here is a clip from a note that arrived in the ACM email newsletter Technews the other week: A researcher who studied the voting patterns on Amazon.com, the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), and the book review site BookCr [...]
Here are the answers to the New Media Summer Quiz 2009. What is Facebook? 1. A “community.” X. A “social medium.” 2. A “platform.” 2. Facebook is a platform on which millions of communities live. (Is it a soc [...]
MEDEA Collaborative Media Initiative is a center for new media research and development at Malmö University, Sweden. Medea is built around co-production with actors outside academia – companies, organizations, artists [...]
Test your new-media trivia skills! Compete with friends and colleagues! The answers will be posted here after the summer holidays. 1. What is Facebook? 1. A “community.” X. A “social medium.” 2. A “platform. [...]
JAY DAVID BOLTER is professor at the School of Literature, Communication and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology. Performance and media studies have long discussed whether television has changed the cultural categor [...]
ERIC KLOPFER, Director of Teacher Education Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [...]
[PUBLICATION] This Co-Design article by Erling Björgvinsson argues in favour of seeing co-design as an open-ended exploration where prototypical practices are explored that engender favourable conditions for ongoing neg [...]
DICK HEBDIGE, Director of Arts and Interdisciplinary Programs at the University of California Riverside’s Palm Desert Graduate Center. In the 30 years since Richard Hell et al at CBGB’s in New York and John Lydon [...]
