On February 17th Professors Rolf Hughes and Ronald Jones will deliver a seminar titled From the Experience Economy to on Transformative Economy and from Knowledge Production to Wisdom Creation at the MFA Program in Transdisciplinary Studies at Parsons, The New School.

On February 8th Professor Ronald Jones will deliver a lecture titled Experience Design and the Future of Everything Else at the School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic. The lecture is co-sponsored by the Hong Kong Design Center and the School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic.

The EDG group had a small holiday celebration in the teacher’s office. Good company and traditional Swedish food and drinks were the excuses for a pleasant chat between EDG members. The Experience Design Group wishes all its friends and partners an excellent new year full of fantastic experiences!

EDG2 today opened the Authentic Experiences Exhibition.Can you design authenticity? Can you design authentically transforming Experiences? Many visitors participated in the experiences, and the exhibition was considered an important step towards the construction of a methodology for exhibiting experiences.

“An Invitation to Participation in the Discoveries of Alex Lexa”, project from Nandi Nobel and Emma Metcalfe

“The Big Nose Know Knows”, project from Fernanda Torre

“Authentic Dialogues on Education: EDG Case Study”, project from Ece Canli and Mariana Campuzano

“Potluck Lunch/ Knytt Kallas”, project from Emin Durak.

Welcome to the Experience Design Master 2 project exhibition: Authentic Experiences. The opening is on the 8th December 2011, from 4pm to 7pm in Seminariegatan, Konstfack. The exhibition will be open every day from the 8th to the 16th December, from 12 to 4pm. Can you Design Authenticity? Can you Design Authentically Transforming Experiences? Such questions will be addressed in the Authentic Experiences exhibition.

Experience Design student Sara Tunheden won the special prize for best mobile application in this year’s Idea competition organized by among others the Karolinska Institutet Science Park. The competition had about 260 participants.
- The idea behind the service ​​”BVC support” is to strengthen and facilitate communication between the BVC nurse and the parents, says Sara. After delivery, the service can help the BVC nurse keep an extra eye on new mothers and thereby detect early signals from those who may be suffering from postpartum depression.
- When the child grows older the service will change focus and develop into an application where parents can keep track of their child’s development, immunizations and appointments, reports Sara.
Sara has a background as industrial designer and did her bachelor at Umeå School of Design. She has previously worked at the Interactive Institute in creating design solutions to make people aware of their electricity usage. While studying at Konstfack, Sara runs along with a colleague a design studio called Studio Frankness.

Second year students Emma Rose and Fernanda Torre designed the stage for the Good Morning 2011 event. Good Morning is the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship’s annual international event focusing on future trends, entrepreneurship and innovation. Inspired by Steven Johnson’s TED talk ‘where good ideas come from’, this years stage was actually a coffee house. Great baristas, comfy chairs and a cozy environment were the ingredients for a very successful stage!

Second year EDG students Fernanda Torre, Emma Rose Metcalfe and Nandi Nobel, were approached last year after working alongside the Centre for Molecular Medicine in a first year studio to revamp one of Karolinska Insitute’s largest student led conferences: Nov2K. They worked with the organizing committee to find an approach that would create energy and engage attendees throughout the two days. Mixing playfulness with inspiration for interaction, the team brought Experience Design insights to the planning of the event, creating intimacy and the feeling of being part of the action to the event itself.

Join the experiments of EDG1 and step into the world of Experience Design for an evening! On the 3rd of November in Biblioteksgatan in Konstfack, EDG1 will open “The EXPERIENCE DESIGN LAB”. This experimental event is divided in two parts, LAB.01 called “Object Transformation Service” where in order to participate fully you should bring an object with some sentimental value that you no longer need or want, and LAB.02 called Experiments on measuring empathy, in which everyone who has an open mind can participate.

Empathy is a key factor in the foundation of the social community,forming normative relationships with “the other” further negotiated by cultural, moral norms and ethical codes. What are the ethical implications of an emphasis on empathy in a given situation? Why (or when) should we be empathetic? What role could empathy play in terms of the designer’s role, the design process and as an engaging quality in the design proposal itself? Such questions will be addressed in the Experience Design Lab.

EDG2 students had a 3 day workshop with Christer Lundal and Martina
Seitl between the 17th and 20th of October. During these days the acclaimed artists explored together with
the students some ideas used in earlier and forthcoming projects like Symphony of the Missing Rooms and The
Infinite Conversation. The artists also developed and tested together with the students
some ideas inherit in the student’s thesis projects.

On 20th October the Experience Design Group at Konstfack gathered with the artists Christer Lundahl and Martina Seitl and Richard Julin , the curator at Magasin 3 to discuss how to exhibit experience(s). In this seminar EDG and our guests explored why Experience Design seems to be a special case when it comes to “exhibiting”. It was a first step in an ongoing process of defining or (re)thinking how to exhibit experiences and / or present experience design.

The panel discussion on Authenticity, Extreme Experiences and Empathy will take place Friday the 14th of October between 2pm and 4pm in Svarta Havet, Konstfack.

What qualifies as an extreme experience? Torture? Skydiving? Giving birth? Certainly death does. Because these experiences are extreme do they seem more authentic? And do they seem that way because they are more transformative than day-to-day experiences? Torture vs. Doing the Laundry. Are extreme experiences more difficult for the rest of us to empathize with just because they are extreme, because they are risky? Are there interconnected relationships between extreme experiences, empathy and authenticity? Are they interconnected in ways that would mean, for example, to empathize with a person who has had an extreme experience validates it, reaffirming its authenticity? Can someone be empathetic without being authentic? And if so, is that ethical? Are there are certain professions, for example the clergy, astronauts, or ambassadors that are keyed in to extreme experiences more than others?
These are the sorts of questions, interrelationships, causes and effects we wish to explore in the interdisciplinary panel Authenticity, Extreme Experiences and Empathy.
Participants come from an array of disciplines and the set-up will favor rich discussions and participation from the audience.

Professor Ronald Jones will be a featured speaker at the Barcelona Design Week on October 18th where he will speak on Experience Design. More info here.

Today, October 10, 2011 Professor Ronald Jones will give a lecture titled “Experience Design and the Future of Everything Else” at the University of Kentucky College of Design . Michael Speaks, the noted architectural theorist, and Dean of the School of Architecture, who gave a seminar at the Experience Design Group last year on prototyping design research invited Dr. Jones to the College of Design in hopes that this would begin a unique international collaboration. More info here.

Professor Ronald Jones will appear at the Industrial Design Summit 2011 October 6-7, in Montreux, Switzerlandof to discuss the future of education in design. Joining Professor Jones will be Patrick Whitney, Dean of the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology and Ralph Schneider, the Innovation Manager for Bayer MaterialScience who is responsible for their innovation mapping project Vision Works.

Two EDG Alumni, Josefin Vargö and Chittrapar Lerttaweewit are opening to the public their food experience: Måltider Mixology5. This tasting experience will be open from the 11th to the 29th of October at DESIGNGALLERIET in Odengatan 21, Stockholm. Come gather around the long spectrum of tiny foods with a few simple rules to abide by:
COMPOUND OF 3. ONLY ONCE. DO TELL. This is the first time Mixology opens to the public since its appearance at the Icelandic Design Festival and Stockholm Design Week.
For more info on Mixology Dinner

On the 26th and 27th September, EDG students had an introductory workshop to the equipment and materials in the Industrial Design department at Konstfack. As a result, EDG will gain access to the Industrial Design facilities, which will allow them to work on fast prototyping models and final models for their exhibitions. This is the first open collaboration between the two departments in Konstfack and it will promote further relations between Industrial Design and Experience Design.

On September 28th Peter Majanen, Mikolaj Norek, and Professor Ronald Jones will speak to the Stockholm Board of Education about their Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship program, Trend-spotting in India http://www.sses.se/training/workshops/workshop/trendspotting-in-india Now in its fifth year, they will speak about past themes including The Future of Talent and The Future of Death.

The new EDG1 students were yesterday introduced to Konstfack and the Experience Design Course. The day started with the traditional introduction made by Ivar Björkman, Konstfack’s President, followed by a lunch offered by Konstfack. In the afternoon the new EDG Master 1 students were welcomed by the EDG teachers with a talk and a goodie bag. The EDG2 students prepared a surprise for their new colleagues and made a very special magic trail, all the way to the new studio. Good luck to the new students!

Professor Ronald Jones led a Design Thinking Workshop at the d. School at Stanford University on July 6th.  The workshop was co-hosted by the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship (SSES) and the Stanford Design Program for the International Innovation Praktik (IIP) Summer Institute.

The Swedish environmental magazine Effekt, one of the leading magazines in the area within Europe, has published in its latest issue an article on the role of play within environmental research. In this article the author, Hampus Rubaszkin, cites the Experience Design Group in Konstfack as an example of good practice within play research and shows  how this sort of research can be used to fight climate change.

Professor Ronald Jones has been named to the Advisory Board, Center for Change, the d. School, The Stanford Design Program at Stanford University.

On July 4^th at the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship Professor Ronald Jones addressed the Executive Committee of Bouygues Telecom on “Experience Design and the History of Everything Else.”

Professor Ronald Jones participated in the symposium Stiftelsen Kokkonst, a new Swedish platform for innovation through food on June 27^th at The Moderna Museet in Stockholm.

On June 18^th Professor Ronald Jones led a panel discussion on “Painting and Performance” during An Experimental Conference on Art and Science To Challenge the Mid-Summer Sun at The Moderna Museet in Stockholm.

Professor Ronald Jones led a Red Tape Critical Forum titled “Experience Design and the History of Everything Else” at the Royal College of Art on March 23rd.  Alex Coles, David Blamey and Monika Parrinder also appeared engaging Jones in questions around his paper.

Ronald Jones at Red Tape Critical Forum

Mahmoud Keshavarz, second year EDG student, will present one of his recent articles at the 9th International Conference of the European Academy of Design from 4-7 May 2011 in Portugal. His paper entitled “Opening the Space of Experience: On Political Forms of Aesthetics in Design” explores re-framing ’the political’ in contemporary design contexts. The paper  applies Jacques Rancière’s theories to design practices and provides a critique of “Human-Centered Design” by discussing how this approach contributes to the hegemonic system of distributing the sensible in a policing society.

On 9 February 2011, Konstfack and Stockholm Business Region hosted a 6-course dinner featuring a 12-meter long table of food presented in all the colours of the visible spectrum, called ‘Composite Dinner’, for ‘Designboost–Telefonplan’ as a part of Stockholm Design Week.

There are a few simple rules of the night:

- Make a combination of 3 to have in one bite;

- You can never have the same combination twice;

- But do tell other guests about your experience.

‘This dinner presents a stage where individual creativity morphs into collective knowledge creation. Like Konstfack, the dinner assimilates and distributes products of its wondrous assemblage. Konstfack aims to create an innovative interpretation of interdisciplinarity by rendering an artistic approach and design thinking to an ever widening dining discipline’.

Composite Dinner is the third iteration in the Mixology series, in collaboration with Master Chef Fredrik Eriksson of Långbro Värdshus. A work of Prang Lerttaweewit, Josefin Vargö, and Anders Mellbratt of The Experience Design Group, the newest discipline represented in Konstfack’s MFA program.

On February 19 Professor Ronald Jones, and Emma Stenström, Associate Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics and Visiting Professor at Konstfack appeared on a panel titled “A World of Art” at the Stockholm Art Fair.

Dr. Michael Speaks delivered a lecture titled “Prototyping the Future of Design Research” on February 15th to EDG students and other guests.

At the 99th Annual College Art Association Meeting in New York City Professor Ronald Jones delivered a paper during the “Hybrid Discourses” panel.

Professor Ronald Jones gave a lecture on Experience Design to the students and faculty of the MFA in Transdisciplinary Studies program at Parsons The New School in New York City on February 10th.

Tuesday 15th February at 17.30, in S1 Konstfack University College of the Arts, Craft and Design.

Prototyping has enabled a new model of design research in which the focus is not so much on the creation of a final design but rather on the creation of design knowledge itself. With the design of each prototype, for example, new knowledge is created, even in those instances where the solution itself is found to be unsatisfactory. Prototyping produces numerous plausible solutions, and while only one of these many will ultimately prove to be the “right solution”, each prototype – even “failures” – produce valuable knowledge – about structure, material tolerances, etc. – available for future development or repurposing.

Speaks will discuss this new model of design research by first developing an a historical narrative of its emergence and then by offering contemporary examples in architecture and design practice and in design education.

The lecture is arranged by Konstfack in collaboration with the Stockholm School of Entreprenurship (SSES).

Michael Speaks, Ph.D., is Dean of the College of Design and Professor of Architecture at the University of Kentucky. Former Director of the Graduate Program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles, Speaks has also taught in the graphic design department at the Yale School of Art, and in the architecture schools at Harvard University, Columbia University, The University of Michigan, UCLA, Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, and the Berlage Institute and TU Delft, in the Netherlands.

Transdisciplinary Knowledge Production in Architecture and Urbanism is a one day seminar on transdisciplinarity and how to address the ethical and aesthetical dimensions of architecture anew.

This seminar is arranged in relation to the release of the book Transdisciplinary Knowledge Production in Architecture and Urbanism: Towards Hybrid Modes of Inquiry (Springer, 2011) edited by Nel Janssens & Isabelle Doucet, which includes a chapter by Rolf Hughes and Ronald Jones.

3 March 2011, 10.00-17.00, at Chalmers Architecture, Gothenburg

With contributions from:

Albena Yaneva, MARC Manchester

Isabelle Doucet, MARC Manchester

Halina Dunin-Woyseth, AHO/Chalmers/GU

Rolf Hughes, Konstfack Stockholm

Jaan-Henrik Kain, Chalmers

Merrit Polk, GU

Monica Billger, Chalmers

This seminar is organised by arkitekturakademin.se / Swedish Schools of Architecture

Ami Izaki EDG ’10 has been nominated to be included in an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. For more information check here.

On October 28th Dr. Mikael Lindstrom and Dr. Ronald Jones will address the Faculty of the Center for Molecular Medicine at Karolinska Hospital about the potential of scientists and experience designers to devise a common research methodology in order to collaborate on a studio to solve global health problems defined by the Bill and Melisa Gates Foundation.

Dr. Ronald Jones gave a lecture to The Stockholm Chamber of Commerce titled “The Experience Economy and the Future of Everything Else” on October 15th.

Eray Cayli, EDG class of ’10 has been accepted into the PhD program in architecture at Bartlett School of Architecture, University College of London and will begin in January of 2011.

Dr. Ronald Jones will deliver a keynote address to IKEA management on October 12th titled “The Experience Economy and the Future of Everything Else.”

Professor Ronald Jones will deliver a lecture at the Yale School of Art on Experience Design October 6th. Dr . Jones is in New York to plan the “Future of the Experience of Opera” studio with George Steel, the Managing and Artistic Director of The New York City Opera.

In the September 2010 issue of frieze magazine Dr. Ronald Jones participates in a round table discussion around the topic of “Super-hybridity.” EDG and some of its research projects are discussed.

Dr. Ronald Jones will speak to the faculty of the Operahögskolan/University College of Opera in Stockholm on September 1st. Topics include the role of research at EDG, interdisciplinarity and the upcoming collaboration between the New York City Opera, the Operahögskola, and EDG where the future experience of opera will be explored.

To introduce new insights on science and make them more available for the public, a collaboration with The Experience Design Group, was initiated by participants on the Center for Molecular Medicine course 2010. Contacts were made with Professors Ronald Jones and Rolf Hughes and after several brain storming sessions two ideas were born. One was to create a common research course, “Innovative Thinking: Science meets Art”, held at both KI and Konstfack and the other was to make a gallery with artworks from the researchers at CMM.

A group of first year EDG students designed an installation for TILLSAMANS IKEA Exhibition during LOVE 2010 Festival in Stockholm. The installation consists of 1125 fixed cootie catchers and hundreds of unfolded ones. Visitors pick one, fold it and explore areas in Stockholm following its chance logic.

Nina Bacun, Minjeong Cha, Martin Jones, Mahmoud Keshavarz, Chittrapar Lerttaweewit, Anders Mellbratt, Bonnie Swift and Josefin Vargö led by Jenny Althoff, participated in the project. Tillsammans exhibition ran from 6-19 June 2010.

More info

Farvash Razavi and Eray Cayli two newly graduated EDG students, won the two main awards at Konstfack. Farvash Razavi won the award decided by Konstfack professors.

Eray Cayli won the Rektorsstipendiet (Rector’s Scholarship). Eray set up an Institution called ‘Postmodernamuseet’. Check out the trailer of the documentary Eray made for this institution here and more materials on his website.

In addition, Ami Izaki and Willow Tyrer won two other awards from the department. Willow won the ‘Nils Johan Sjöstedts Stiftelse’ for her social behavioural studies in how errors affect the queuing system.

Bret Ascerli, Eray Cayli, Jan Carleklev, Farvash Razavi, Ami Izak, Maria Paz and Willow Tyrer exhibited their work, curated by Liv Stoltz, as part of the Konstfack Spring Exhibition.

The EDG Exhibition was located in front of Konstfack’s library. Check the online catalog here.

Dr. Ronald Jones has been invited to participate in a three-day workshop (May 19-21) hosted by Nobile to envision the future of Stockholm especially in regards to Entrepreneurship, the Arts, Design, Social Entrepreneurship, Sustainability, Luxury, Architecture, Research and Education.

EDG 1 students used their experience design skills to create Mixology, an evening in which participants could create new cuisine experiences by making the culinary arts interdisciplinary. Ever try white caviar and green peppers atop a doughy piece of warm cinnamon bread? Yummy.

On May 20th Konstfack’s annual MFA exhibition opens. This year’s EDG exhibition features Brett Ascarelli, Jan Carleklev, Eray Cayli, Ami Izaki, Maria Paz, Farvash Razavi and Willow Tyrer.  It was curated by Liv Stoltz. Oral thesis defences will be on 25- 26th May in Svarta Havet, Konstfack.

Dr. Ronald Jones and Dr. Rolf Hughes held a research seminar on artistic research at Konstfack with the above title. The seminar has led to a proposal to co-author a paper with colleagues in the field in the UK and Belgium.

Vijai Maia, a first year EDG Master student will travel to Zagreb, Croatia to participate in the artists in-residence program at Autonomous Cultural Centre Medika, home of the Antibiotik program, starting 10th June 2010.

On June 2-5, 2010, two thousand change-makers – entrepreneurs, innovators and leaders – from around the world are coming to The 5th Global YES Summit – Rework the World, in Leksand, Sweden because they don’t just talk a good story, they create them. They are creating new business models, new partnerships and new investment opportunities. Dr. Ronald Jones, Peter Majanen, and Dr. Emma Stenström will represent the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship and the Experience Design Group delivering a seminar on The Future of Talent.

The Queens Museum of Art, New York, will host Nina Bacun, first year Masters student at EDG, as an intern during the summer of 2010. She will contribute to a project entitled Humanfactory a collaboration between the Queens Museum of Art and Mildred´s Lane, Pennsylvania.

Mahmoud Keshavarz, a first year student at EDG, will present a paper in the “Critical Design” section of upcoming Cumulus Conference in Belgium. This year’s theme of Cumulus is “Borderline: Pushing Design over the Limit”. His paper explores this hypothesis: How can experience design make design activism permanent and durable. In his paper he defines various definitions of “Experience Design” by different disciplines and he has tried to use the interdisciplinary nature of experience design as a metaphor to show how much experience design could improve design activism in the new era. Mahmoud will present this paper on 27th of May at the Media & Design Academy, Genk, Belgium.

Four first year EDG students alongside students from other design schools in Sweden participated in a two day IKEA workshop in Älmhult. The theme of the workshop, which was led by “designboost”, was “Tillsammans” which means “Together”. Each school presented its proposal at the end of the workshop and will present their final proposals on 6th of May. All schools will participate with their final design concepts at the Tillsammans Exhibition in June 2010 in Stockholm.

Dr. Ronald Jones and Dr. Rolf Hughes held a workshop on “Design Thinking and Experience Prototyping” at the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship.

On 27th April, Ann Marie Orru, ARB RIBA, will lead Invention Lab.  She is both an architect and a research curator. Ann takes inspiration by bringing together different disciplines and inspiring them to create an ecologically-responsible design through innovative thinking, research, and practice.
In the Invention Lab , Ms. Orru will present various research problems around the topic of biomimicry.
Read about her work here:

www.scene-thinking.com

and here:

www.annamariaorru.com

Rolf Hughes has been elected as one of seven members on the Committee for Artistic Research and Development in Sweden’s National Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). He will serve as a member from 2010-2012. The Committee supports research and initiates strategic questions concerning artistic research and artistic development. Read about their work here.

Eray Cayli, a second year EDG student will present a paper entitled “Ways of Peeing: Traces of Modernity In the Public Lavatory”, on 13-14 May 2010 at the “Deciphering The Object” conference organized by Izmir University of Economics, Faculty of Fine Arts and Design in Turkey.

Willow Tyler, a second year student at EDG has been awarded a 6 month internship at IDEO of Munich. Willow will work as a communication designer there. She also designed this website for Experience Design Group.

“Protest Artifacts: Objects as Design Activism” is a paper by Mahmoud Keshavarz, first year MFA student at EDG which has been accepted for Fiscar2010. Mahmoud will present his paper on 24th May at Aalto University, School of Art and Design Helsinki. By applying Latour’s Actor-Network Theory, he examines how artifacts can assume an activist role in societies.

Jaeuk Jung, a second year EDG year student has been one of seven Konstfack’s representatives in Milan Design week 14–19th April 2010 with his project, Amber Chair. The exhibition was inspired by Claude Lévi-Strauss’ book “The Savage Mind”, and curated by Ikko Yokoyama, head of Konstfack exhibitions. For more information check Konstfack Milan Exhibtion’s website

The Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris will republish Ronald Jones’ essay on Yael Bartana entitled “War and Peace,” (first published in frieze, Issue 114, April http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/war_and_peace ) in a catalog for Bartana’s exhibition at the museum.

“Mobile Fresh Air” is a project by first year Experience Design MFA student Mahmoud Keshavarz created for [Un] Real Estate, a course taught on the Experience Design Group by Ramia Mazé and Martin Avila.
It has been published on Design Philosophy Politics as a side project of “Design Philosophy Papers Journal” with a greater focus on political design by Anne-Marie Willis and Tony Fry. For further details please visit Design Philosophy Politics.

Dr. Ronald Jones, Director of EDG, delivered a paper titled ”Strategies of Social Media” at the symposium Photography Today, Tomorrow, held at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm.

On March 19th and 20th Ronald Jones and Banny Banerjee, Director of Stanford’s d. School, brought together thought leaders from the Design Institute of IIT, Parsons School of Design, California College of the Arts, Design London (RCA and Imperial College), Business Week, and the National Institute of Design in India for the third annual summit devoted to the Future of Design. The institutions represented have formed an international consortium and will continue to meet annually in order to present symposium, papers and workshops. In June of this year they will publish a co-authored white paper titled Design Intelligence. Nick Kaye of SSES, and Peter Majanen, faculty at EDG and SSES also attended.

Dr Rolf Hughes gave the keynote lecture titled “Leopards in the Temple: Circus Arts Research” at a circus arts conference 18-22 March involving renowned international circus performers, physical theatre practitioners and clowns. The event was organized by Andreas Sjönberg.

Rolf Hughes was guest critic for the Architecture and Gender: Performing Writing graduate course led by Professor Katja Grillner and Dr Malin Zimm.

“Reflections on Supervising” a recent article by Dr. Rolf Hughes, Professor at EDG and Director of Research at Konstfack, has been published on “Reflection 13”. “Reflections” is a cycle of publications presenting developments in the fields of design, teaching and research at the Saint-Lucas School of Architecture, Brussels and Ghent, where Dr Hughes is Senior Professor in Research Design. You can access the PDF file of “Reflection 13” and Dr Hughes’s Article here.

Dr. Emma Stenström and Dr. Ronald Jones held a seminar titled Interdisciplnarity in Business and Culture at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago.

Rolf Hughes was one of three guest critics at the Bartlett School of Architecture annual PhD conference and exhibition. His comments on the research projects arising from the design and theory/history-led PhD programmes, led by Professor Jonathan Hill, Professor Jane Rendell, and Dr Barbara Penner, will be published in a forthcoming publication from the Bartlett.

Dr. Rolf Hughes and Dr. Ronald Jones co-authored the chapter “Modern 2.0: Post-criticality and transdisciplinarity” to be published in Transdisciplinary Knowledge Production in Architecture and Urbanism. Towards hybrid modes of inquiry, edited by Nel Janssens and Isabelle Doucet (Springer-Verlag, forthcoming 2010)

Jaeuk Jung, a second year EDG student, has made a strategic collaboration with THONET GmbH in order to realize one of his conceptual experience design projects with the chair No.14, today known as 214, designed by Michael Thonet in the 19th century. The chair will be presented in Salone del Mobile, Milan Design Week 2010.

Inaugurating a new series of graduate seminars at the Sint-Lucas School of Architecture, Brussels and Ghent (where Hughes is Senior Professor in Research Design), Rolf Hughes and Gerard de Zeeuw held joint lectures and led a discussion on the subject of metaphor and research thinking for doctoral candidates on the Sint-Lucas Research by Design programme.

Dr. Ronald Jones led a seminar for students of the Royal College of Art and Imperial College, London on “Experience design and Interdisciplinary.”

Dr. Ronald Jones published a chapter titled ”Fail Again, Fail Better” in the book Learning Mind: Experience into Art, edited by Mary Jane Jacob and Jacqueline Bass for the University of California Press.

Dr. Ronald Jones, Peter Majanen and Dr. Emma Stenström led the third annual Future Forecasting Think Tank at the National Institute of Design, India.  This year’s topic was The Future of Talent.

Stina Wessman, a first year student at EDG, has been awarded a 6 month internship at the global design firm IDEO. She will start her work from first of April 2010.

Eary Cayli, a second year EDG student, will present a paper entitled “Design in Times of Crisis: The ‘Utility Scheme’ Example from 1940s Britain”, as part of the international seminar “War Perspectives: Architecture and Planning in Italy and beyond (1938-1945)” in Milano. The seminar will take place at the Politecnico di Milano on 21th-22nd of January.