Minor Design Activism: Prompting Change from Within

Tau Ulv Lenskjold holds a PhD in Interaction Design from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Design. His current research follows two avenues: The first investigates how speculative design practices engage with political and societal issues, as well as traces the historical precursors for contemporary speculative design. The second avenue concerns a post-antropocentric re-articulation of design in theory and practice—in particular, with regard to experimental and interventionist design strategies.

Sissel Olander is a postdoc scholar at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design. Her current research focuses on community centers, libraries and cultural houses in the Municipality of Copenhagen, exploring new ways of including local networks and communities in innovation processes through the building of open platforms for participatory innovation in the borderland between public administration and public space. She has a background as a music performer, composer and educator, and she holds a Master of Science from the IT University in Copenhagen. E-mail: sol@kadk.dk.

Joachim Halse is an associate professor at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts - School of Design, where Joachim and colleagues have developed a new master program in codesign, which is based on practical collaboration with external partners across the private and public sectors. Joachim's research has contributed significantly to the emergent field of Design Anthropology.