design theory

Ramia Mazé, Judith Gregory (IIT Institute of Design) and Johan Redström are co-authors of a paper on 'Social Sustainability' to be presented at the 4th World Conference on Design Research (IASDR), which will be held at the Delft University of Technology between 31 October - 04 November. ...

Slow Technology is a series of experiments done at the PLAY studio at the Interactive Institute 1999-2002

...to design for reflection

...slow technology can be technology where...

The paper DIFFICULT FORMS: CRITICAL PRACTICES OF DESIGN AND RESEARCH written by Ramia Mazé and Johan Redström has been accepted to the conference 'Emerging Trends in Design Research' that will be held November 12-15 in Hong Kong and organized by the International Association of Societies of Design Research 2007....

Johan Redström, Design Director, medverkar med kapitlet 'En experimenterande designforskning' och Bo Dahlbom, Scientific Director, med kapitlet 'Från formgivning till samhällsbyggnad' i den nya antologin 'Under ytan: en antologi om designforskning'....

Congratulations, Johan! The announcement was made by the Design Research Society and the journal publishers, Elsevier Science:

Design Studies Award...

I am Design Director and Senior Researcher at the Interactive Institute in Sweden, and before that the Research Director of the Design Göteborg (RE:FORM) studio....

Pushing the frontiers of design research, we work with artistic and traditional research perspectives and practices to identify and explore new research areas....

Interaction design work today is overly focussed on putting technology everywhere, ubiquitously, in our lives and spaces....

This studio is no longer active. Please visit Design Research Unit for current information.

Technology as Design Material...

'IT+Textiles' was a three-year design research program (2002-2005) led by Interactive Institute and Newmad Technologies in Sweden, where traditional textile design meets and, at least to some extent, falls in love with computational technology....