I’ve just returned from teaching a workshop at the NORDES summer school 2010 held at Pukeberg, Nybro, Sweden. I joined Thomas Binder, Karin Blombergsson, Pelle Ehn, Catharina Gabrielsson, Giulio Iacucci, Sara Ilstedt, Anna Rylander and Otto von Busch as a member of the summer school faculty leading a group of 40 Ph.D. students from Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Germany and the U.S. through concepts, methods and innovation associated with the notion of ‘design things’.
The workshop I ran, entitled ‘Design and Controversial Things’, encouraged the participants to explore a form of issue mapping and visualisation related to their research interests. The workshop was part of a series of seminars and workshops through which the participants, organised into groups, were asked to develop proposals and prototypes relating to a matter of concern they had formulated throughout the week.
The summer school was organized by NORDES (the Nordic Design Research Conference) and the Swedish Faculty for Design Research and Research Education.
Below are some photographs taken at the summer school:








How Things Are and How Things Should Be
Photographs of the workshop at the Pukeberg glassworks, Sweden.