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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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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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Keynote on Design Research

Oct 6th, 2007 and tagged in Research, Art & Design

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.

Dr. Martin

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.