Update from the Copyright Frontier
Update from the Copyright Frontier September 9, 2024 This year’s Formland fair brought quite a surprise for Mille Maracent. For many years, she has run a small design shop called Alterlyset, where she has sold handmade candles with a unique design to top interior stores in Northern Europe—including in Denmark, Illums Bolighus and the Louisiana […]
AI – is it the future of design?
With Artificial Intelligence (AI), technological development has taken a quantum leap. Where does that leave design as a profession, and where does the individual designer fit into this technological evolution?
Designing for the New World
If design is part of the problem, how can design be part of the answer? In her new book Design for the New World. From Human Design to Planet Design, professor Ida Engholm explores the inherent values in our design methodologies and ideas for reclaiming design as a force for good – not only for humanity but the entire planet. Design denmark sat down with her to discuss the future of design.
What might it mean for us to move past human-centered design?
Design has thrived as a human-centered practice, but how can we move beyond the privileging of humans to explore design as a practice of cohabitation and mutualism?
Fostering Sustainable Innovation
Innovation is not a department; it’s a culture. In this article Michael McKay delves into the complexities of fostering innovation within large organizations, drawing from theoretical frameworks and real-world experiences to offer a multifaceted approach to sustainable innovation.
The Regenerative Workplace
Through the start-up Re-LAB, Sarah Lund Morrison and Louise Møller Nielsen are on a mission to create systemic changes in the workplace. They do this by utilizing a fusion of design and regenerative principles called Life Rising Design. Design denmark met up with them to hear more about their approach and why they aim to create a workplace revolution.
Demolition of Preconceived Ideas
The design and implementation of what we term as ‘demolition activities’ or ‘removing the blinders’ in innovation parlance, is arguably one of the most anxiety-inducing tasks we undertake as innovation leaders
Nanna Ditzel’s Guide to Creativity
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of “The Grand Dame of Danish Design,” Nanna Ditzel
PAK vs KAP
A New Approach to Organizational Transformation
Designing for Interdependence
How can we design for mutually beneficial relations with other species in
the places where we live?