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Design as Innovation

The design approach and design research are key elements of successful innovative processes.
Creatively engaged in creating the future the designer collaborates with users as well as stakeholders in the client organization to deliver the best and most appropriate product, service or system to fulfill the needs and desires of the market.

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Collective Intelligence in the creative process

Just 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.
Collective intelligence is often only engaged in isolated brain storming sessions, but can just as well be utilized through the entire developmental process through personal and organizational practices as well as supporting technologies like web 2.0 platforms.

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The Social Product

When 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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Website seems to be roling

Nov 29th, 2004 and tagged in General

It seems that the website is just rolling its way forward. When ever I get the time I will be updating and uploading content to different sections and creating new sections. I hope my CMS-guru Kaspar will soon create subsections and I even have a pretty good idea as to how it could be done while maintaining the minimalistic style of the site (and the cms-system-layout).
I will try and create a litlle more stylish style sheet in a few days and also I'm scheming a design scheme for how pictures should be standardized in the future. Let's see how it will evolve - hope is green


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Danish Design Award - The Vision Prize

Nov 26th, 2004 and tagged in General

BIG news: we won one of the Danish Design Awards this year with our iFloor, the interactive floor installation we made for the Municipal Library in Aarhus, Denmark.
To me, that is one of the distinctions I would most like to win, and now I have, with all the other guys at the centre of course.
Andreas, Peter, me and Kaspar
And Andreas and I even got to shake hands with the crown prince of Denmark
Hurra! Remember to enjoy the first big prize you win – it probably will not be the same next time.


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Next Prize Won

Nov 26th, 2004 and tagged in Research

HURRAA! - It turned to be a real thrill to win the next prize as well. We won the best paper award on OZCHI04 where we had written about the iFloor. I will put articles into a publications section shortly for everyone to enjoy.
Look mum - my arms are stuck up here


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Hello - first post out there

Nov 26th, 2004 and tagged in General

Here is even a picture of my self - and a little snippet of my love.
Martin
This Blog is run by Kaspars fantastic CMS-system, which I have the honor of testing. Putting an architect in fromt of a CMS-system is what you might call extreme testing - but it\\\'s the way to move ahead


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