(Re)Searching the Digital Bauhaus

Thomas Binder is a design researcher and educator working with design students and industry to develop novel approaches to collaborative design and participatory methods to the study of the changing everyday of potential users. Jonas Lowgren is an interaction designer with twenty years of experience from academia and industry. His research at Malmo University is focused on cross-media products, interactive visualizations and the design theory of digital materials. Lone Malmborg is currently an Associate Professor of interaction design at IT University of Copenhagen. She is a member of the Innovative Communication Group. She has been developing and heading an education program in interaction design at Malmo University, Arts and Communication, and has been establishing and heading the research group Creative Environment.

Introduction: (Re-)Programming Interaction Design.- From Utopia 1981 to Utopia 2008.- HCI and Design: Uncomfortable Bedfellows?.- Constructing Utopia(s) in Situ: Daring to be Different.- Tradition and Transcendence.- Designing From Somewhere: A Located, Relational and Transformational View of Design.- On Participation and Service Innovation.- The Phenomenological Stance of the Designer.- Designing for Homo Ludens, Still.- Gaming Literacy: Game Design as a Model for Literacy in the 21st Century.- Distruptions.- On a Scale Between Art and Design : On the Aesthetics of Function From the Bauhaus Until Today.- Appropriating Digital Environments - (re-)Constructing the Physical Through the Digital.- Designed Animism.- In Search of a Critical Stance.- A Science of the Possible: A New Practice in the Spirit of Bauhaus.- Work, Design, Computers, Artifacts.- The Everyday Poetics of a Digital Bauhaus.