SPIRE reseracher on local news

Yesterday the local TV Syd sent this reportage about Trine, one of the researchers of SPIRE, who is pendling from Ærø to Als. The clip is in Danish, but here it is anyway:

TV Syd clip about Trine

Cleaning up

Today I have been cleaning up in the 1st year studio together with Shiran and Mark. We found a lot of stuff (crap) for example a cd with some old pictures on:


I am not sure which project they are from, but they look interesting...

But anyway the 1st year studio is now more or less ready for the new batch, that we are looking forward to welcome in the end of August.

Nice and useful video

This video seems to have some good points in relation to Design Reseach and ethnographic methods:



Getting People to Talk: An Ethnography & Interviewing Primer from Gabe & Kristy on Vimeo.

I found it on this blog

Reorganising the workspace

During the summer we are starting reorganising our work space around here. Since we are empoying new people for SPIRE we are not able to be in the same office space anymore, so we are organizing in four groups according to the core research areas and create dynamic work groups with different themes. The idea is to let our 2nd year students sit and work with our researchers in order to create a close relation between students and researchers, teaching and research. I think it will be really good for both students and researchers to get closer to eachother in the future.

Summer + graduation

So now I am back from my holiday and ready for the quiet summer here at the office. I will be working on arranging the introduction days for the new students and prepare materials for next semester.

Last Friday we had this year's graduation ceremony in the concert hall here at Alsion. It was so festive with all the happy graduates, the university choir and a great buffet.


Karsten, Max, Vigdis, Saravanan and Anda are waiting for their diplomas


Max, Vigdis and Saravanan



Mads from the university choir is hitting the high c


The band