Completed research projects
Completed externally funded research project in alphabetical order.
This research project allows children’s visual and verbal expression to contribute to the digitisation of Swedish cultural heritage.
We aim to develop design-driven, certified services in the form of collaboration platforms for complex planning processes. The project is innovativ...
The aim with this project is to create a proposal for a highly relevant design education preparing the students to conduct designerly, collaborativ...
Designerly Designed Design Education (DDDE) – a Scandinavian educational development initiative Three well established Scandinavian design schools...
In the 1970s The Swedish Cooperative Union (KF) launched large, visionary projects, based on KF's ideological legacy. This research project studies...
This is a critical time in design. Concepts and practices of design are changing in response to historical developments in the modes of industrial...
The project takes a closer look at different conceptions of interior’s temporality, duration and instability based on the assumption that the...
The interdisciplinary research field of color and light involves art, design, architecture, information technology, physics, medicine, cognitive...
Practice-based research in the Visual Arts has not been especially engaged in the development of sustainability so far. It has mainly been the...
The research project “ Development of methods for generating ideas in the field of service design practice” developed methods for innovation and...
Microhistories studies the form of the video essay, which can be said to treat its subject matter in a critical and investigative way while at the...
Narrative processes in between – the narrative practices of comics is a research project that takes a look at how different working methods and...
The project focuses on how transnational communities are formed and how “the North” reaches beyond territorial boundaries to include numerous...
How can well-being be supported in environments where end-of-life care takes place? Konstfack contributes design expertise in this project that is...
The project stimulates discussion about the distribution of responsibility in transitions to more sustainable lifestyles.
The research project will develop new energy-efficient lighting solutions for urban environments.
The project is a historical study of typographic design and class struggle in the Swedish printing industry during the period 1897-1930.
On IKEA's aesthetic during the 1980s and 1990s, the export of "Swedish design" and national myths
The project is structured through four subprojects. Each of these is being developed to enact responses that deal with socio-ecological issues at...
Contributor Vinnova Participants Björn Hellström (projektledare) och Bo Westerlund Konstfack, Göran Cars KTH, Pelle Ehn Malmö Högskola, Tyréns AB,...
Acoustic screens, "noise barriers", are not commonly used in urban environments, for aesthetic reasons. This project will develop a new type of low...