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Design as Innovation The design approach and design research are
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Collective Intelligence in the creative processJust like no man is an island no product can
be created be one person. Based on a thorough design research and
a shared knowledge of the current situation, a process that engages
the collective intelligence of the entire developmental team as well
as its closest neighbors is needed to reach the best possible solution. |
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The Social ProductWhen is a product deeply meaningful to its users and buyers? On the internet we currently see a spurring of social product and services that link and connect us in new ways and for new purposes. Or actually the purpose is ancient: As a social beast human beings have always had a desire to both stand out and be part of a social context at the same time. How do we as designers develop product that can fit this desire and how can we develop platforms that enable new social patterns to emerge and possibly novel social actions to impact the world. |
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Reflections / Blog
In this blog I will write about myself, design and that projects and events I participate in.
Meaningful Visions for Life is a design consultancy focusing on developing products, systems, services and processes for clients working in the merge between digital and physical market places.
I am Martin Ludvigsen, a designer, researcher and explorer of social interaction, design of technology, products and their systems. My focus right now is on design consulting and developing this design focus within the perspective of collective intelligence.
I have concluded a PhD-project within the Center for Interactive Spaces, a multi disciplinary research center with among others computer scientist and interaction designers from the Aarhus School of Architecture like myself.
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Next & More - new site
My new site is rolling.
I am committing the ultimate crime in the age of Google. I am changing my URL. All the links will be broken - I will go out of existence, web-vise. But I will be back from the new and better site.
Next & More is my personal platform for research and consulting. Today I am combining these two in an effort to explore design, and in the future I will seek out new clients and collaborators, as well as new research projects.
New site: www.nextandmore.com ;
New RSS feed: feed://http//nextandmore.com/feed/
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Special Feature: Martin Ludvigsen
WHAT!??? radio silence for 8 moths and then three posts in one day??
I have been interviewed for the Inform magazine - the quaterly of Danish Designers. The focus was on Design's potential as a research discipline. Research-through-design is something I have been focused on during most of my research, and in my dissertation I tried to make a broad argument why it makes sense.
The Inform article tries to make a popular recap of this argument. Helle from Danish Designers have done a marvelous job with writing it together.
Possibly I can post a summary here later - maybe on the new site.
I have been interviewed to the yearly report from The Danish Design Research Center as well, but this is stil unpublished, so I will get back to you on that.
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New website???
I am now for the second-to-last time announcing a new website for my self and all the stuff I do. I will launch the new site by the end of this month - so stay tuned. The last announcement will include the new URL as well as my new company name. I have been doing a little undercover consulting, which I will also talk a little more about in the new site....
The new site will contain all the stuff that have been available here on MVL.dk. mvl.dk will stay in function, but mainly as a mail-box for all the good people who have an mvl.dk-mail.
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I QUIT! - and get new job
Hi. I QUIT! This is my last few weeks at 3PART. I have been offered a very interesting job in my old hood.
The Interactive Spaces Research Center needs a new liason to the School of Architecture and assistant manager. Peter Krogh, who has been taking care of this so far has started in a new job of Innovation Manager at the Alexandra Institute. So I am stepping on to take over for Peter at Interactive Spaces.
This is a great job, and I am looking forward to starting in research again.
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Keynote on Design Research
This week I presented the work I have done on design research as the closing keynote at the Art of Research seminar at University of Art and Design Helsinki.
The talk was a summarry of the work I did in my PhD in order to explore and argue for the fact that design research - especially in a research-through-design persective - can be seen as a fully qualified and valid, academic, scientific form of research.
I had great fun actually writing this section last year and exploring all the nerdy philosophy-of-science readings I could find relating to design. Usually other PhD's hate this part of the dissertation, but I found it ot be almost relieving tension, as I found that it was EASY to argue for the fact that design research - and my little research project - was valid science.
I put the presentation on to Slideshare.net - hope it works.
And if you are interested a copy of the dissertation where the actual detailed work is presented, then please send me a line.
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