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Social events and mingling are important when attending a conference, and we took it to the max during Nordic Game in Malmö last week! Thanks to Behold Ventures, Raw Fury, Phokou Digital and more for arranging fun parties and great networking opportunities all around the city!

Thesis presentation (MSc in Design) by Felipe Rocha Melhado ”unspoken echoes: design fictions as provocations of hearing loss stigma”

Felipe talking through his design fiction artifacts

Simultanious to the DPU and MDes thesis presentations, we are hosting several exibitions of other design courses. Here are some results of the ”formgiving and form-seeing” freshmen course.

Thesis presentation by (MSc in Design) by Maria Nanova ”Creating a closing experience for a science center; in the case of a data Visualization Center C”

Another exhibition during the thesis presentation days is on the results of the Wood Realisation elective course.

Masha Ahmadi presenting her thesis on the design of a roommate matching app ”Enhancing shared living experiences through user-centered design” (MSc in Design)

Jasmína Plšková presenting her thesis (MSc in Design): ”Visual appeal and intuitiveness of a touchtable user interface for a 3D urban heat visualisation tool”

The end-of-year design exhibition includes several prototypes and designs from a range of courses.

Thitima (Poupé) Dulyapitak presenting her thesis (MSc in Design): ”designing seasonal expressions for white label food packaging” In collaboration with IKEA

Part of the Studio II course (freshmen MSc in Design) was tied to the theme of Just Transitions. Results are exhibited as part of the end-of-year show in parallel to theses presentations.

Engaging with the thesis materials

Camilla Svensson and Claudia Torelli presenting their thesis project (MSc in Design) with Östergötlands Stadsmission in Norrköping ”visualizating Impact: Visualization workshops for personal data and assessment”

Generative AI is super cool… BUT I’m continually blown away with the work happening in ‘procedural’ 3D modelling. Especially given these plugins are for a free (!) 3D tool like Blender. We needed a fancy Houdini license to do this just a few years ago 🤯

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And here is the paper (with an extra hyphen in the title and all): doi.org/10.21606/drs.2…