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New PhD student: Christina Jakobsen

Christina Jakobsen is a PhD student at the department of Computer Science, Aarhus University, and is joining DUL for cooperation. With a background in Information Studies and Design and Design processes from Aarhus University, she is returning to familiar ground.
Her PhD project is entitled "User driven innovation as a strategy in building processes". The main case study of the PhD is the building process of MEDIASPACE the future main library at Aarhus harbor, in which DUL is also involved. The aim of the project is to explore the opportunities and challenges of co-designing technology, future practice and a future physical building in the context of a building process.

Tags: new urban areas | people | user-driven innovation

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New PhD student: Erik Sloth

Exploring experience communication in consumer culture

Based at the Centre for Corporate Communication at Aarhus Business School/ Aarhus University, Erik Sloth is a PhD student and researcher with the Digital Urban Living project.
His specific research field is experience communication. With regard to the formulation of the objectives and research questions of this part of the DUL project, he will address the following two questions:

1) What characterizes the hypermodern citizen, and how is it possible to interact with him/her, taking into consideration his/her digital urban living?
2) How is the hyper-modern citizen constituted within digital urban living across civic communication, hyper-local news, digital art, branding, learning, and community building?

Tags: business | experience communication | people

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Geoff Cox as new Postdoc Researcher

Geoff Cox has recently joined the DUL project as a Postdoc Researcher in Digital Aesthetics, on secondment from University of Plymouth (UK) where he is a Reader in Art and Technology and part of KURATOR/Art and Social Technologies Research group. He also contributes to Transart Institute, Berlin/New York (DE/US), and works as Associate Curator of Online Projects, Arnolfini (a contemporary art centre in Bristol, UK).

Tags: digital aesthetics | people

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Planetary Pledge Pyramid - Getting ready for the big show

We are getting ready for the biggest gameshow on earth. On the 18th December 2009 DUL's Interface Aesthetics group in collaboration with The People Speak will host a world-changing game show as part of the Copenhagen Climate Forum called “Who Wants to Be…?”: the show where the audience makes up the questions, the answers, and the rules! Details of how to get there are on the Climate Forum website. Climate Forum website. The mission: to have fun seeing if a group of people people having fun can make better decisions and raise more money than the politicians at Copenhagen!

Pledge your $10 and get access to the big event on Kickstarter.comKickstarter.com:

We have run Talkaokes at Hopenhagen at Rådhuspladsen. It has been a very rich experience with lots of people coming. Images herehere

Tags: aesthetics | digital aesthetics | interface aesthetics

 
Harddisken features DUL

The Danish tech radio show HarddiskenHarddisken features Center for Digital Urban Living this week. Host Anders Høeg Nissen (not the guy shown in the picture on the right, that's Henrik Føhns) went exploring among the DUL research projects, especially those relating to the climate change debate. This was what he could fit into the half hour:

Download the entire program here: Harddisken week 49 [MP3]Harddisken week 49 [MP3] (original air date: December 2, 2009).

 
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