The inevitable posts that can not be categorized.
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
X Media Lab Sweden utforskar gränslandet mellan digital media och vår fysiska värld. I takt med att GPS, GIS, mappning, taggning och augmented reality utvecklas och mognar uppstår nya tjänster, produkter och nytt in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Hur ser framtiden ut för Västra hamnen och hur tar vi oss dit? Vad krävs för att Västra Hamnen ska fortsätta utvecklas i kreativ riktning? Detta är frågor som initiativtagarna till Kreativa Malmö har ställt til [...]
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, [...]
Amanda Wickman, scenograf, har under våren arbetat med att utforma och möblera MEDEAs labb, även kallad MEDEA-studion. Jag får en kort pratstund med henne just när den unika disco-desken rullar in, samtidigt som vi [...]
Vad och vem har bidragit till att vi kan uppleva den kreativa smältdegel som kvarteren runt Malmö högskola, MINC, Media Evolution, SVT och en rad andra kreativa företag idag utgör? Hur ser framtiden ut och hur tar v [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Martin Berg, post-doc på webbyrån Good Old (finansierad av Riksbankens Jubileumsfond), kommer under tre års tid att bedriva sociologisk forskning på de “göranden” människor utför i de sociala medierna. [...]
New media play an increasingly important role in everyday life, both on a local and a global level. The new possibilities for citizens to use the media in more creative ways doubtlessly lead to changes in how people live [...]
Den traditionella film- och TV-branschen står i dagens digitala medielandskap inför många utmaningar. De kulturella praktikerna kring konsumtion och produktion av medieprodukter har förändrats – deltagandet v [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The current “online sensation” (see footnote, below) seems to be Auto-Tune the News, a series of video collages from New York-based Gregory Brothers. The basic idea is to mash up news clips fed through an auto-tuner [...]
I söndags kunde man i Sydsvenska Dagbladet läsa om hur ”Lunds labb utmanas av Malmös gator.” I artikeln kunde man läsa att Malmö högskola också satsar på labb men att de har en helt annan karaktär än kolleg [...]
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 [...]
Kanye West’s intervention at the MTV Video Music Awards last weekend has predictably set off an online avalanche of mashups, parodies and comical asides. (There is a top 10 at Mashable.com if you need a quick brush-up. [...]
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 [...]
Hur ser framtiden ut för medie- och musikbranscherna? Hur ser morgondagens mediesamhälle ut? Dessa inte helt enkla frågor ställdes vid en halvdagskonferens som hölls under Hultsfredsfestivalen. Vi som deltog i konfe [...]
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. [...]
Mashups sometimes work like ketchup bottles: Someone makes a mashup that is unusually good, fun, clever or simply happens to be noticed widely; the theme or the original material strikes a chord with many other mashup ma [...]
