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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
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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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European Cows Almost Poor
Visiting the FLOW Market at Danish Design Center in Copenhagen yesterday I read the heartbreaking and foundation shocking piece of statistics-spam on one of the counters:
1 billion people live on less than 1 US$ a day. Each cow in the European Union receives a total of 2 US$ a day in subsidies
Make me think:
1) What? Are we insane?
2) Cows are great of course, but do they really need that much subsidizing?
3) Lately I have noticed in newspaper that the standard on poverty has been upgraded living on less than 2US$ a day. That’s not because we are getting richer on the global level but because the dollar is becoming cheaper and cheaper for some reason...
The Flow Market is a deeply provocative installation commenting on the entirety of our current society: how we overwork, get stressed, lose meaning of life, are stuck in uncreative patterns
See the ‘Did you know…’ section for more interesting spamtistics.
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State-of-the-World
Over at the The Well Bruce Sterling has been given his annual state-of-the-world address , which is actually more of a conversation with the members of The Well and people from outside the network.
This post is first going to be about the Well and then about all the very interesting things that Sterling’s address got around to.
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Collective Intelligence Convergence
Last night I participated in a very interesting conference call. Tom Atlee and George Pór (George also hosts this site) along with a small group of conveners have invited a range of practitioners and researchers of the field of Collective Intelligence to get together in a ‘meet and greet’. We presented ourselves and our visions and perspectives on the subject and now we are go start discussions on a closed-to-the-public website on these perspectives, with a focus on where we can collaborate and expand the field and out activities.
The point of the call and website is to bring these people together and by that bring the field of collective intelligence –within academia, organizational practice and social/political change – to form and become an actual filed with collaboration and cross pollination.
Today the field seems to be wide-spread and awakening to an awareness of itself and its many facets. I was fascinated by the number of people that are participating, and each person’s very strong commitment to making a better world.
I hope this evolves fruitfully and with strength, and I hope to be able to write more about this on this blog as well as other places, which I will link to.
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Dissertation handed in
Yes, last month I handed in the final version of my PhD dissertation. As promised I will make it available online when I receive a confirmation from the evaluating committee that it will be accepted for defence. As it looks right now, unless the committee has issues that need to be revised, I am going to defend it in April.
Here is the cover.
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Reconstruction and evolution
A change is taking place, happening these days. Several events converge, coincide and collide to create this change, and without going into to much detail I can tell a little about it here:
First of all the field I am part of is changing and recasting. This is the field of collective intelligence which for now, for me has its proxy in the Moving the Edge hosting team.
Then I am two weeks from handing in my dissertation on ‘Designing Social Space, Co-located Social Computing in Physical Context’. More of this work will become available online to a broader public as soon as it has been preliminary accepted for defence for the PhD degree.
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