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2009-2011: ongoing reflection and perspectives 
02 June 2011 Change of perspective and cultural exchange Overall the experiences I have had in my time at Kisd have deeply changed my perspectives of design as a...
 
MA THESIS RESEARCH 
Supervisors: Prof. Heidkamp, Prof. Wrede Abstract Online tools for citizen participation are rarely successful in engaging young citizens, specially when these...
design research, participatory culture, citizen engagement 
VISUALIZAR '09: PUBLIC DATA/ DATA IN PUBLIC 
Visualizar '09 was a 2 week collective enterprise where people from different areas gathered to discuss about data culture, public data and to develop prototypes...
data visualization, workshop, conference 
BRAVE NEW DEMOCRACY 
In this one week project with Regula Stämpfli we discussed about politics, democracy, and the role of designer in society. The students reflected upon the meaning...
short term project, political 
POVERTY | tutoring assistance 
KISD Medium Term Project for the development of a virtual exhibition about Poverty, in cooperation with Musée d'Histoire de la Ville de Luxembourg, DASA...
interaction design, data visualization, exhibition 
CASE STUDY: MAPPING 
"Every map is someone’s way of getting you to look at the world his or her way."Lucy Fellowes, Smithsonian curator, quoted in Henrikson 1994* This is study...
visualization, design tools, collaborative 
YOUTH SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR 
KISD Short term project on research and service development to increase youth consumption of sustainable products in supermarkets. REWE and Unilever wanted to...
service design, design research, sustainability 
SCREEN/BREAKS 
The briefing was to think about what does a break from electronic devices mean. The class selected different electronic devices, and each group though about the...
interaction design 
SPREAD THE WORD 
Integration project aimed at finding solutions to spread the word about KISD and faimiliarizing the new KISD students with Cologne design scene. Our task was to...
short term project 
CONFERENCES | WORKSHOPS 
In general, throughout this time at KISD I have had the opportunity to go to conferences, fairs and workshops, which have given me a different perspectives on...
service design, design research, social design 
TEA TIME COLOGNE 
KISD Short term project on discovering what’s the equivalence of the tea time in Cologne, run by guest prof. Tadanori Nagasawa, from Japan. In this project we...
design research, culture, workshop