The Center for Design Studies

hosted by
The Department of Informatics, Umeå University, Sweden

Who we are

The Center is a group of interested researchers, teachers and practitioners, mostly from Umeå University, Sweden. It is hosted by the Department of Informatics with support from the Institute of Design and the Advanced Design Institute

Contact


Erik Stolterman

e-mail homepage

Address:
Informatics
Umeå University
901 87 Umeå
SWEDEN

Fax: +46 (0)90 7866550

Updated: October 2003


Welcome

To the right you can find a description of the idea of the Center. If you want to know more, please get in touch with us.

NEXT EVENT! is canceled!

Unfortunately, the small series of presentations on design thinking and practice in September 2003 has been canceled. The invited speakers were two internationally known design researchers:

Professor Harold Nelson,
Advanced Design Institute, Seattle, USA

Professor Ken Friedman,
Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design, Department of Knowledge Management, Norwegian School of Management

We hope that we will be able to realize these presentations later on.


The Relation Between Design and Science
in Research and EducationWednesday,

March 19th 2003
13.15-17.00
in MA121, the MIT building

Welcome to an efternoon with presentations and discussions on the relation between design and science in research and education. Anyone interested is welcome.

13.15 Introduction: Design as the first tradition
Erik Stolterman, Professor, Informatics

13.30 Some Obstacles Facing Designers Beginning Research,
Mike Stott, Professor, Institute of Design

13.50 Konst som kunskapsform
Art as a form of knowledge

Per Nilsson, Assistant Professor, Philosophy and Academy of Fine Arts, Umu

14.30 Personal reflections on the dichotomy of natural science and industrial design
Niklas Andersson, Ph.D. student Institute of Design


14.45 Kaffe/Coffee

15.00 Design Oriented Research versus Research Oriented
Design Daniel Fällman, Ph.D. student, Informatics and Institute of Design

15.20 The Forgotten Design Perspective
Jan Bodin, Assistant Professor, Economics and Institute of Design

15.40 Explorative Engineering: Scope & challenges
Mikael Wiberg, Assistant Professor, Informatics

16.00 Design as Problem Solving
Pete Avondoglio, Professor, Institute of Design

16.20-17.00 Discussion and a short presentation of the ideas behind the Umeå Center for Design Studies
Erik Stolterman, Professor, Informatics




 

Purpose of the center

The purpose of the Center for Design Studies is to be a focal place for designers, researchers, practitioners, and students with an interest in design as a common ground connecting many disciplines and professions.

Center Description in pdf

To accomplish this, the center will strive to be a leading forum for advanced studies in design research, design education and design practice

The center will serve as a forum for national design studies and as a node in the international network for design studies.

The center will initiate and support studies within five broad areas:

1. Design research methods and design research practices
2. Design education
3. Design practice
4. Philosophy and theory of design
5. Design policy

LINKS

Advanced Design Insitute

Design Research Society