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- Evans, Susan, et al.
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How can design education support designers in their visionary work towards sustainability?
- 2016
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In: Open Design for E-very-thing.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The objective of this workshop is to create a space for synthesis and to build on the paper sessions on sustainability, with a focus on design education. What roles can designers play in the vision towards sustainability? What is required of design curricula, pedagogies, educators, academic institutions and wider partnerships to support students adopting these new or modi ed roles? The workshop aims to set an agenda for years to come and to create an ongoing ‘think and do-tank’. This interactive and action orientated workshop is led by an interdisciplinary group from the Cumulus network and the Cumulus working group for sustainability, representing European and Asian perspectives, and both theory and practice.This will be a three hour-long workshop with practical outcomes. Max: 30 participants.The workshop is structured in three consecutive sessions.1. The synthesis of insights from paper sessions & shared examples of best practices.2. The new designer roles at the intersection of curriculum, tradition and emerging socio-cultural, economic and ecological systems.3. Designing: prototypes for integrating relevant and applicable sustainability learning into the design curriculum and academic institutions.Outcome:Exhibits: 1. prototypes for sustainability learning in academic institutions and in our wider partnerships; and 2. an agenda proposal for a ‘think and do-tank’ for ongoing Cumulus conferences.
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- Hyltén-Cavallius, Sara, 1964-, et al.
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Design + change, building a new education
- 2014
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Why and how do you start a new contemporary design education? A design department in Sweden describe their process of building a new education for social change. Ups and downs are part of the process leading to several conclusions. The most important one is that if your university's strategy documents talk about social responsibility and internationalization, incorporate this strategy in the new education. Your university management may be rather surprised that you actually do what they pro- pose, but the most important aspect is that you will acquire their support.
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- Hyltén-Cavallius, Sara, 1964-
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'Designers are almost fake'
- 2015
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In: Open Design Forum - co-creating our open societies through design. - : HKDI DESIS Lab for Social Design Research. - 9789881396136 ; , s. 212-215
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)
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- Hyltén-Cavallius, Sara, 1964-
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How do we live our lives? : How do we want to live in our homes? Towards an architecture for sharing.
- 2015
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In: A Vision of Sustainability with focus on Water. ; , s. 1-8
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- How we want to live our lives is not an individual matter; it is a collective matter. Our basic human needs are the same whether we are poor or rich and whatever the colour of our skin. The focus of this paper is how we can meet our human needs more sustainably in the context of domestic life, and how the design of future homes can support more ingenuous and convivial resource usage. Of particular importance is the notion of sharing resources. During a pilot study I used the method of shadowing to explore how individuals of different circumstances in Sweden meet their needs in the domestic setting, as well as their experiences of and thoughts on the sharing of resources. Early findings indicate that sharing needs to be easy, and that sharing with people you know is more comfortable. The research should provide insights for urban planners and architects planning new residential neighbourhoods.
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- Hyltén-Cavallius, Sara, 1964-
(author)
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Shifting Mindset : towards sustainability at Linnaeus University design programmes
- 2013
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In: Projecting design 2012. - : Cumulus association. - 9789568901042 ; , s. 24-29
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The School of Design, part of Linnaeus University in Sweden, has been focusing on new design thinking in our education. In the Sustainability specialization within the Design Programme we have been striving to increase the awareness of sustainability concerns (environmental, social and economic) instead of being traditionally focused on aesthetics. We have developed a programme in line with the increasingly problematic world, where climate change is just one incitement for proposing attitudinal changes. The process of shifting our own and our students’ mindsets has been successful. As soon as the students come to grips with the actual situation they are more than willing to change from the romantic dreams of figuring in glossy magazines to developing new fields for their research. Design education can have an impact on society while working closely and together with society to explore what design can do. We are proud of what we have achieved and are heading for a future where the design discipline takes a leading role in transforming vital parts of our society.In my paper I will present one of the projects where the focus was on collaborating with a municipal housing company and a Swedish migration institution. It will include some of the extraordinary ideas developed by our students. My aim is to exemplify ‘design in action’, which might mean a changing and expanding view of the design of today and tomorrow. Shifting Mindset.
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- Hyltén-Cavallius, Sara, 1964-
(author)
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Staden och kulturen för invånarna
- 2014. - 1
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In: Hofs Lifs. - Växjö : Hofs Lifs. - 9789198173604 ; , s. 100-105
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Book chapter (pop. science, debate, etc.)
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- Lee, Yanki, et al.
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Ageing & ingenuity : what is your design story?
- 2013
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In: Nordes 2013 Online proceedings. - Copenhagen : The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. - 9788778303165 ; , s. 471-472
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This collective design workshop aims to provoke and test new design approaches towards ageing. We are looking for design stories/narratives that show how design thinking and collaborative working can enable the world to respond differently to the challenges of ageing. Can designers change our inherent ageism through the engagement of older people in the design and delivery of services and products with them? Can we change our current strategies towards ageing, turning its potential challenges into opportunities to engage, empower and improve the lives of the elderly? Together, we aim to build a collective design approach with ingenious older people and for our future selves.
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Oikology - Home Ecologics : a book about building and home making for permaculture and for making our home together on Earth
- 2019
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Editorial collection (other academic/artistic)abstract
- How can we, together, make our home on Earth in a time of mass extinction, climate change and social segregation? In this book two interplaying housing crises converge. The first concerns affordable and suitable housing for groups unprioritised by the housing market: older persons, students and migrants. The second concerns our home on Earth: science gives us but a decade to avert catastrophic climate change. This book aims at both reporting on research in the project BOOST metadesign and providing hands-on advice akin to that offered in home economics classes. The book starts performing Oikology – Home ecologics, a field of knowledge and practice in times of complexity, messiness and never finished labour of making homes together within Earth’s limits. The exploration of housing development for older persons, students and migrants in a context of sustainability has been carried out during 2016–19 through processes of co-creation in urban and rural parts of Småland, southern Sweden. Metadesign has opened up for a holistic and systemic take on home making that integrates different dimensions of sustainability and moves from the small and local to the all-encompassing. This book is for people who make homes in their personal or professional lives. It imagines an overarching paradigm of home making which starts from relationships. This is exemplified through speculative scenarios, a set of cruxes to be bounced into the planning process, methods for transdisciplinary co-creation and 29 recipes for home making.
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| 11. |
- Pretty, Annabel, 1965-, et al.
(author)
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Learning by planning; collaboration across the environment
- 2016
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In: Open Design for E-very-thing. ; , s. 1-12
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Learning by Planning; Collaboration across the Environment, is a partnership, and collaboration between two Schools separated by some 17,000 kilometres, the Design School, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden, and the Architecture Department at Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland NZ. Notwithstanding this vast literal spatial distance, the commonalities of design pedagogy are readily apparent within both programmes, even though, one being a core design field, and the other sitting within architecture end of design continuum or spectrum. This paper aims to investigate this mutuality by learning from one another by way of disseminating framework’s, tools, design methodologies, and teaching praxis, and the core pragmatic similarity, that of embedded Sustainable Design. This proposition will parallel the context of each case studies of both courses / programmes chosen, from each Institute, and will conclude with a summary where foreseen outcomes will be addressed; Learning by Planning: Collaboration across the Environment.
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- Sànchez, Macarena
(author)
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De Suecia con mucho mucho amor
- 2014
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In: MásDeco. - : Consorcio Periodístico de Chile S.A.. ; :11/15, s. 8-10
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Journal article (pop. science, debate, etc.)
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- Ståhl, Ola, et al.
(author)
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"Rituals of Care"
- 2016
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In: Open Design for E-very-thing. ; , s. 1-3
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- A fashionable term at the moment used to describe the world that we now inhabit is the geological concept 'the Anthropocene.' Although the validity of the concept within geological discourse remains contested, it seems to have become a common albeit loosely defined term for a geological era following the Holocene defined by the (detrimental) impact of humanity - the Anthropos of the Anthropocene - on the geological strata of the planet.Facing the Anthropocene, what we are called upon to do, is to find other ways of inhabiting our bodies - of being embodied - and other ways of collectively inhabiting the geosphere - of being, in a sense, embedded. This involves aesthetics and ethics; developing sensibilities, forms of attentiveness, and constructing, or designing, universes in which life can be sustained. In this task, the notion and practice of ritual, if retuned to face the Anthropocene, may come to play a most crucial role.If we consider the etymology of the word 'ritual,' from early 14th Century Latin ritus, and detach it from its religious context, what we get is a sense of 'observance' taking the form of 'ceremony' but also the form of 'customs' and 'usages'; to be observant of and attentive to a principle or decree, manifests itself in the ceremonial as well as in the everyday; in the funerals and weddings as well as in the daily custom of brushing of one's teeth, or the usage of utensils for food consumption.As for the origins of the Latin root itself, it has not been established with certainty. There is, however, a compelling argument linking it to a Proto-Indo-European word for 'reasoning' and 'counting;' two words that both involve a process of thought by which we make sense of the world.Arguably, ritual today has little to do with thought and reflection, and more to do with habits and traditions, often problematic ones, and with activities that we do precisely without thinking, such as brushing our teeth. It is as if the link between observance, attention, and reflective thought, on the one hand, and ceremony, custom and usage, on the other, has been severed. We are no longer attentive to the rituals that make up the texture of the universes in and through which we live.Now, our argument is not that we should return to a pastoral or archaic past where this would have been the case but we would like to propose two more speculative questions: First, what if we were to turn our thinking toward the rituals through which we construct a life in order to figure out what it is we are observant of and attentive to in the Anthropocene; what our ceremonies, customs and habitual uses of the things that surround actually mean? Second, what if we were to turn to ritual as a form of practical and speculative thinking in order to figure out how to construct universes for ourselves within the Anthropocene, in which life, in some fashion, can be sustained and enriched?Ritual would then, perhaps, become the site of an emerging ethics (in the Greek sense [ethos], as having to do with 'habitual character' or 'disposition', or better perhaps, 'ways of living') and an emerging aesthetics (again, in the Greek sense [aisthanesthai], as having to do with aesthesis, perception, or the development of sensibilities and forms of attentiveness). Developing sensibilities and practices of attentiveness, and constructing ways of life on the basis of embodied and embedded, attentive experiences; another word for this might be 'care.'Care is an interesting word that is often understood superficially in a sense closely associated with the word 'cure.' We care for the ill in order to restore them to health; we care for the poor by easing their suffering; we care for our children by offering them our protection and unconditional love. The two words 'care' and 'cure', however, have very different etymologies. Whereas the word 'cure' stems from a Latin root, cura, meaning 'healing, paying attention to,' the word 'care' has a Proto-Germanic root in a word that bears connotations such as 'lament,' 'loss,' and 'grief.' Residual use of the word in this sense can be found in phrases such as, 'she doesn't have a care in the world.'Within the context of the Anthropocene, 'care' becomes a very interesting choice of word as the configuration of an ethical, or ethicoaesthetic site for new ways of living is defined by a sense of irrevocable loss. We live through a period of likely extinction that will require us to fundamentally rethink our understanding of what it means to be human beyond the Anthropos. What we stand before, then, is the task of finding out what it may mean to live a certain kind of extinction. This is an ethicoaesthetic task, and it is one premised on a sense of loss. We do have a care (a loss, a grief, a lament) and we do need to start caring for (paying attention to) the geosphere within which we construct our universes and to those with whom we labour in order to do so. This involves practicing 'care' and not least experimenting with the design of rituals of care.
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- Ståhl, Åsa, 1976-, et al.
(author)
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How can we critically & creatively engage with power relations in collaborative design research?
- 2017
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In: Nordes 2017. - : Nordic Design Research. ; , s. 17-17
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This workshop explores power relations in collaborative design research. As co-creation is becoming more established and even something of a holy grail, it is important to revisit and further understandings of, for example, the limits to democracy in collaborative research and conflicting agendas. The workshop draws on ongoing research that explores housing needs and solutions at the intersection of an ageing population, students and migrants, and that engages multiple stakeholder groups in collaborative processes. The proposed workshop will stage an enactment of the research design, from invitation to analysis, with the workshop participants playing the different roles in the process. This will enable us, collaboratively, to critically and creatively engage with some concrete interfaces to power negotiations as well as the meta level of power dynamics in collaborative research. We will enrich our understandings of power relations by engaging with indigenous thinking, expressed as decolonizing methodologies.
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- Tham, Mathilda, 1970-, et al.
(author)
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Care-Oke : A silly-serious design joke
- 2019
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In: Nordes 2019: Who Cares?. - Espoo : Aalto University. ; , s. 44-45
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This workshop offers care-oke, a singing orchestra of care, as a design method and ritual to simultaneously manifest and probe care of self, care of others, care of community, care of matters of care in collaboration. We argue that such silly-serious approaches have an important role to play in injecting vulnerability, social risk-taking, feminist ways of knowing into complex change work addressing complex global challenges. Participants will experience coming together in care-oke, and reflecting on what singing as caring can mean for design cultures and collaborations.
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- Tham, Mathilda, 1970-, et al.
(author)
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Evaluating Impact of Co-creation
- 2018
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In: OpenLivingLab Days (OLLD) 2018.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Transnational Living Lab for Active Ageing is an ambitious research project across Sweden and Japan, with the aim of improving the experience of ageing through social design and innovation. A core challenge is loneliness, which is addressed through interventions in the remit of work/occupation, housing, mobility. The Languaging Loneliness workshop has been developed to fast forward exploration of individual and collective experience of loneliness to inform development of policies, products and services. Tests to date in Sweden and Japan indicate that the workshop itself can reduce experience of loneliness.The overall aim of this research is to explore evaluative frameworks and approaches fitting for the living lab community that genuinely capture innovative and unconventional methods directed at stimulating innovation and improving well being – emotional and physical, as exemplified by the Languaging Loneliness workshop.Expected Outcomes:– A comparison and map of different evaluative frameworks in the specific context of an intervention to reduce experience of loneliness.– Brainstorming of new approaches to evaluation in the specific context of social design and wellbeing/quality of life.– We anticipate that this workshop will take us further in capturing and communicating elusive emotional benefits of living lab approaches.Opportunity to participate in a rich discussion and community around the dilemmas, opportunities, future pathways to evaluation in the living lab context. Participants will get hands-on experience from a workshop that synergises science and art, opportunity to share experiences, engage in critical and creative discussions, and design new pathways for evaluation of co-creation, ready for trial in the home context.
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- Tham, Mathilda, 1970-, et al.
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From dirt-Sweden to kitchen island to luxury hotel
- 2019
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In: Oikology – Home Ecologics. - Växjö : Linnaeus University Press. - 9789188898722 - 9789188898739 ; , s. 61-72
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This chapter discusses a historical context of housing.
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- Tham, Mathilda, 1970-, et al.
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How can we celebrate risk-taking in co-creative and transdisciplinary processes for change?
- 2018
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In: Design Research Society International Conference. - Limerick : Design Research Society.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Design as catalyst for change entails working with uncertainty, venturing into new ways of knowing and complex transdisciplinary collaborations. This can be provocative, messy, awkward - even frightening, since it involves an element of risk-taking. The risks may concern asserting epistemological positions lower down a normative hierarchy, saying no to a conventionally termed strong financial proposition, or exploring a new visual language. Using metadesign frameworks and tools, this workshop starts from concrete examples of risky moments to explore how design situations and cultures can be more allowing and supportive of risk-taking. Specifically, the workshop uses an approach of ‘languaging’, manifested through drawing, writing, film-making and embroidery, to probe and reimagine risk-taking. The workshop draws on insights into risk-taking from the Swedish-Japanese research project Transnational Living Lab for Active Ageing, the development project BOOST - proposals for housing at intersection of migrants, students and ageing population, and Design + Change - the development and implementation of visionary new degree programmes. The facilitators have long experience from setting up safe spaces for risky explorations across sectors, internationally. Workshop participants will leave with a framework and process to explore risk-taking co-creatively, new narratives of risk-taking in change work and a resource of examples of risk-taking.
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- Tham, Mathilda, 1970-, et al.
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Making resilient research dissemination : The case of BOOST metadesign performing housing scenarios
- 2019
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In: Cumulus Conference Proceedings Rovaniemi 2019, Around the Campfire – Resilience and Intelligence. - Rovaniemi : University of Lapland. - 9789523371583 ; , s. 170-181
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper shares the process and insights from designing the dissemination of the development project BOOST metadesign. The three-year long project has developed housing proposals at the intersection of migrants, students and an ageing population, in a context of sustainability. We have been working through iterative processes of co-creation, with members from these three stakeholder groups, as well as representatives from the building sector and governance. The paper relates considerations in dissemination of the project to two principles of resilience: diversity and overlap in governance. It describes how we pursued resilience through a hybrid format of dissemination. The openness of this slideshow-performance-talkshowexhibition- film-book has made it workable across a range of contexts and audiences. It also manifests the challenging of dominant power structures and epistemological hierarchies in design’s meeting with other disciplines which the project has entailed. This has come to also include challenging the modernist legacy in design.
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- Tham, Mathilda, 1970-, et al.
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Recipe for contract for careful sharing
- 2019
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In: Oikology – Home Ecologics. - Växjö : Linnaeus University Press. - 9789188898722 - 9789188898739 ; , s. 89-94
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This is a recipe for how humans and other species can negotiate the sharing in cohabitation. This might be sharing of a home, a neighbourhood, particular spaces, equipment, time, tasks and community.
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- Tham, Mathilda, 1970-, et al.
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Recipe for needs, dreams and housing workshop
- 2019
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In: Oikology – Home Ecologics. - Växjö : Linnaeus University Press. - 9789188898722 - 9789188898739 ; , s. 76-77
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Method for workshop to explore housing needs and dreams with transdisciplinary groups.
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- Tham, Mathilda, 1970-, et al.
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Recipe for plus-community
- 2019
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In: Oikology – Home Ecologics. - Växjö : Linnaeus University Press. - 9789188898722 - 9789188898739 ; , s. 122-122
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Method for exploring how a community can generate social values beyond its needs.
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- Tham, Mathilda, 1970-, et al.
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Recipe for scenario salad
- 2019
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In: Oikology - Home Ecologics. - Växjö : Linnaeus University Press. - 9789188898722 - 9789188898739 ; , s. 59-59
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Recipe for scenario salad - a method for transdisciplinary co-creation.
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- Tham, Mathilda, 1970-, et al.
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Recipe for secret housing
- 2019
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In: Oikology – Home Ecologics. - Växjö : Linnaeus University Press. - 9789188898722 - 9789188898739 ; , s. 118-119
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Method for bringing out the secret, hidden, shameful aspects of co-creation and collaboration and of the topic of work.
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- Tham, Mathilda, 1970-, et al.
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Transdisciplinary and transnational co-creation for health and care in an ageing society
- 2017
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In: OpenLivingLab Days. - : OpenLivingLab Days.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The purpose of this workshop is to share and further understandings of how tools for co-creation can be used to mobilise many ways of knowing and many different knowledge holders in the context of active ageing. Participants will experience the Five Levels of Story-telling tool, to create a shared map of understandings of active ageing, and engage in a fast process of social design and prototyping in this context. Together we will explore how tools for co-creation, developed in different contexts, for example industry and academia, can be synergised to meet the demands of a quadruple helix collaboration, in the context of health, care and ageing. The workshop draws on the project Transnational Living Lab for active ageing, a collaboration between Swedish and Japanese researchers, citizens, municipalities and industry partners. This 27-month long project aims to change the experience of ageing, by targeting issues of loneliness and segregation through social design. It is funded by Vinnova, Sweden and the Japan Science & Technology Agency, Japan.This workshop addresses the theme of healthcare in a wide sense. We define health as the physical and emotional well-being of individuals and communities as well as the interdependent health of other species and the long-term health of resources our societies depend upon. We define care as the respectful and health supportive relations between people, between people and other species, as well as the respect an individual shows herself.The specific focus of the workshop is active ageing and the particular project Transnational Living Lab for Active Ageing.
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