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, [...]
[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 [...]
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 [...]
[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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
[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. [...]
[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 [...]
Läs mer om vinnarna här: Ali Baba & Djinn´s Oasis tog hem segern MEDEA och Media Evolution i samarbete med Malmö stad och en rad andra organisationer arrangerar den sista helgen i januari ett 48 h Arabic Game Ja [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Under våren 2011 har ett 40-tal aktörer från privat, offentlig och tredje sektor samlats på MEDEA för att i tre workshopar diskutera och gestalta förutsättningarna för en framtida inkubator för social innovation [...]
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 [...]
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! [...]
Uppdatering: rapporten är klar och kan läsas här. På uppdrag av Malmö stad har Living Lab Kvarteret på MEDEA lett en serie workshops för att undersöka förutsättningarna för etableringen av en inkubator för so [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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! [...]
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 [...]
[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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This week, the French social innovation agency La 27ème Région is on a study trip to the Öresund Region and MEDEA to meet with researchers and innovators in the area. The purpose of this trip is the following: “ [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Living Lab Kvarteret undersöker tillsammans med Herrgårds Kvinnoförening hur arbetslösa kvinnor från flera olika länder (Afghanistan, Irak, Iran, Bosnien etc) skulle kunna bli en starkare resurs för samhället. Kv [...]
Hur kan stadsutveckling och medborgardialog förstärkas med ny teknik och media? Projektet ParaPolis sätter nu upp det första av två experiment. Experimentet går ut på att undersöka hur boende själva kan skissa o [...]
[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 [...]
