Did you know that building digital product or service prototypes is almost as easy as building with LEGO bricks nowadays? It has never been easier and does not require any technical skills. I've written an article on how to get started, titled "The LEGO Bricks of Digitalization are Waiting for You," which is published in […] Read More…
This week I had the pleasure of stage-hosting the Sprint Digital 2021 conference: It invited anyone interested in how design can become the key tool in successful digital transformation, to hear of the results of the 3-year Sprint Digital project. Being one of the Danish Design Centre's flagship projects, Sprint Digital, a 3-year effort funded […] Read More…
The Distributed Design Market Platform is an EU-funded 3-year project which I've contributed work to during my time in Danish Design Centre. Every year the project partners write and publish a book, and I have had the honor to contribute to more of them (co-editing one of them and writing articles for others - see […] Read More…
Over the course of 6 months in 2020-2021, during my time in Danish Design Centre, I had the pleasure of making a deep plunge into the inner workings of ten corporates to explore with them how innovation works in such large, complex organisations. Concretely, ten innovation leads from large companies such as Ørsted, Konica Minolta, […] Read More…
Over the last few months, I have been privileged to contribute as an advisor to the work by Danish Design Centre and digital consultant Peter Svarre on creating a Digital Ethics Compass, which is a tool suite and learning program to help companies make the right design ethics decisions. Made in collaboration with design studios […] Read More…
As part of my work as Director of Digital & Future Thinking at Danish Design Centre, I have the pleasure of contributing to a highly important effort to try to tackle one of the biggest digital challenges of our time: The global spread of digital technology that in many ways enrich people's lives with more […] Read More…
Over the past year I have been part of a great, small team in the EU H2020-funded Distributed Design Project (initially titled 'Distributed Design Market Platform') to put together a book that outlines the current state of 'distributed design': A new emerging field in which technology, makers and new design practices challenges how things are […] Read More…
By Christian Villum
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Posted in Books, Danish Design Center, Distributed design, Fabcity, Maker culture, Open culture, Open source, Writing
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Also tagged books, Distributed design, Fab City, maker culture
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This past week I was fortunate to get the opportunity to contribute to this year's Techfestival in Copenhagen; a highly emerging international technology gathering of roughly 15,000+ critical thinkers and doers from the technology space and adjacent fields. My contribution was to lead an all-day design-driven session with 80 people to explore public data; and […] Read More…
By Christian Villum
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Posted in Copenhagen, Data, Design, Events, Open data, Talks, Technology
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Also tagged climate change, Copenhagen, data, design-driven, public data, Techfestival
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. This past week I was very excited to visit Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Innovation Lab for the first time, following an invitation from one of my great heroes in the open source-driven innovation space: Eric A. von Hippel. The kind invite followed the work I have had the privilege of doing in Dansk Design Center in […] Read More…
By Christian Villum
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Posted in Danish Design Center, Design, Events, Open source, Presentations, Talks, Technology, Travel
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Also tagged business models, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, open source
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