Meet the Conference Organizers

The Research Network for Design Anthropology is established in collaboration between the CoDesign Research Center (CODE) at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design, the Contemporary Ethnography program at the Department of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, and SDU Design at the University of Southern Denmark.

All of these institutions have a strong track record of cultivating and furthering the field of design anthropology, both in terms of academic courses, PhD student supervision, conferences and publications. The strong ties and collaboration between the three institutions have created the platform for the development of the international Network for Design Anthropology and a planned book publication. The network is funded by the Danish Research Council (grant number 13923).

Organizing committee

Rachel Charlotte Smith
Assistant Professor of design anthropology at the Research Center for Participatory Information Technology (PIT), Aarhus University. Her research lies at the intersections of anthropology, participatory design and interactive technology. http://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/rachel-charlotte-smith.html

Kasper Tang Vangkilde
Assistant Professor of business, organization and design Anthropology at the Department of Culture and Society, Aarhus University. His research field lies within the borders of business anthropology, creativity and design.http://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/kasper-tang-vangkilde.html

Ton Otto
Professor of anthropology at Aarhus University and James Cook University, and head of Ethnographic Collections at Moesgaard Museum. He has published widely on anthropological theory and ethnography and worked with various visual media.http://pure.au.dk/portal/en/ton.otto@cas.au.dk

Joachim Halse
Associate Professor of design anthropology at the CoDesign Research Center (CODE) at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design. He has extensive experience within participatory design, codesign and design anthropology.https://kadk.dk/en/employee/joachim-halse

Thomas Binder
Professor in codesign and part of the CoDesign Research Center (CODE) at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design. He has published widely on participatory design and open-ended exploratory design processes.https://kadk.dk/en/employee/thomas-binder

Mette Gislev Kjærsgaard
Associate Professor of design anthropology at SDU Design, University of Southern Denmark where she works in the field of participatory innovation and makes extensive use of anthropological competencies in design and development processes. http://findresearcher.sdu.dk:8080/portal/en/person/mgk

Curator
The exhibition space and workshops are curated by Brendon Clark, Senior Researcher, Interactive Institute Stockholm.