Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Center for Design Research, Danmarks Designskole
Phone: (+45) 3527 7642
E-mail: eva.brandt@dkds.dk
Affiliation
Research and Artistic Practice.
Research
Continuously my research has been about understanding design work in practice and to develop valuable ways of working that open the design work and the design process for stakeholders outside the traditional design team. The research include the ability to synthesis various concerns in a design process.
As an example the objective of my Ph.D. dissertation: "Event-Driven Product Development: Collaboration and Learning" was to develop valuable ways to conduct customer or user driven product development. Based on an action research approach I have experimented with various ways of organizing and facilitating projects where people with different competencies, responsibilities and interests could participate actively in product development projects. Focus has been on developing ways of working both internally in the organisation between the product development department, the marketing department and the sales department, and externally with customers and potential users. The dissertation describes a broad theoretical framework with focus on various aspects of product development and experiences from organising and facilitating events focusing on participatory inquiry and collaborative design in three commercial product development projects carried out at Danfoss. It involves exploration of the field of social interaction and process management in the product development process. The dissertation develops four specific issue streams; concurrent engineering, reflective practice in professional design, learning as a shared development process among members of design teams, and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
See list of publications for more information.
Employment record
2005 - Associate Professor, Center for Design Research, Danmarks Designskole
The research is part of Center for Design Research, while the teaching takes place at Danmarks Designskole.
2004 Associate Professor in Interaction Design at Art and Communication,
Malmö University. As part of this position I spent two and a half months teaching Interaction Design to industrial design students at Cape Technikon, South Africa. (www.mah.se/k3)
2003 - 2004: External Associate Professor at Mads Clausen Institute for Product Innovation, University of Southern Denmark. (www.mci.sdu.dk)
2002 - 2003: Consultant, The Danish Society of Engineers, IDA
Developed and taught the course; 'Objective, courage and motivation'. Part of IDAs program for supplementary education for engineers.
1999 - 2004: Senior Research Fellow at the Space and Virtuality Research StudioThe research studio was part of the Interactive Institute which is an independent Swedish research institution based on cross-disciplinary research.
1995 - 1999: Research Fellow in the User Centered Design group at Danfoss A/S
Employed to carry out an industrial Ph.D. project. I took part in three commercial product development projects. The Ph.D. project was carried out in collaboration with The Department of Technology and Social Sciences at the Technical University of Denmark.
Publications
(28) (forth-coming) Designing Exploratory Design Games - can they be the guiding framework for the designer?
Eva Brandt. Full paper. Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 2006, Italy, August 2006.
(26) The Design Lab: Re-thinking what to design and how to design.
Eva Brandt, Jörn Messeter and Martin Johansson. In 'Design Spaces'. Edited by Thomas Binder and Maria Hellström. Edita Publishing Ltd. IT Press. Finland, 2005. pp. 34 - 43.
(25) Wedges of Anxiety.
Maria Hellström and Eva Brandt. Book chapter in 'Design Spaces'. Book chapter in 'Design Spaces'. Edited by Thomas Binder and Maria Hellström. Edita Publishing Ltd. IT Press. Finland, 2005. pp. 26 - 33.
(24) KLIV
Erling Björgvinsson, Per-Anders Hillgren, Eva Brandt, Marcus Emilson and Viktor Bergquist. Project snap-shot in 'Design Spaces'. Edited by Thomas Binder and Maria Hellström. Edita Publishing Ltd. IT Press. Finland, 2005. pp. 48 - 51.
(23) COMIT - Contextualizing Mobile IT
Jörn Messeter, Eva Brandt, Joachim Halse, Martin Johansson. Project snap-shot in 'Design Spaces'. Edited by Thomas Binder and Maria Hellström. Edita Publishing Ltd. IT Press. Finland, 2005. pp. 56 - 59.
(22) The Experimental Office
Eva Brandt, Jörn Messeter, Kristina Nilsson, Martin Johansson, Peter Fröst, Peter Warren, Simon Wext and Thomas Binder. Project snap-shot in 'Design Spaces'. Edited by Thomas Binder and Maria Hellström. Edita Publishing Ltd. IT Press. Finland, 2005. pp. 100 - 101.
(21) Moving Stories
Anne Brag, Eva Brandt, Isa Hardemo, and Maria Hellström. Project snap-shot in 'Design Spaces'. Edited by Thomas Binder and Maria Hellström. Edita Publishing Ltd. IT Press. Finland, 2005. pp. 106 - 109.
(20) Dynabook
Eva Brandt, Edison Gomez, Camilla Grunnet, Håkan Edelholt, Jun Yoneyama, Jette Vestergaard, and Thomas Binder. Project snap-shot in 'Design Spaces'. Edited by Thomas Binder and Maria Hellström. Edita Publishing Ltd. IT Press. Finland, 2005. pp. 160 - 161.
(19) How do Tangible Mock-ups Support Design Collaboration?
Eva Brandt. Full paper. Nordic Design Research Conference, 'In the Making', The Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Copenhagen. May 29.-31. 2005.
(18) Facilitating Collaboration through Design Games.
Eva Brandt and Jörn Messeter. Full paper presented at the Participatory Design Conference 2004, Toronto July 2004. Hent artiklen her [pdf]
(17) Contextualizing mobile IT.
Jörn Messeter, Eva Brandt, Joachim Halse and Martin Johansson. Full paper presented at the DIS04 conference held in Boston, August 2004. [pdf]
(16) Action Research in User-Centered Product Development.
Eva Brandt, Special issue on action research. AI & Society: The Journal of Human-Centred Systems and Machine Intelligence. AI & Soc (2004) 18: 113-133. Springer-Verlag London Limited 2003.
(15) Self-produced video to augment peer-to-peer learning.
Eva Brandt, Per-Anders Hillgren and Erling Bjarki Björgvinsson. Full paper for the MLEARN conference in London, UK. May 2003.
(13) PDA´s, Barcodes and Video-films for Continuous Learning at an Intensive Care Unit.
Eva Brandt, Erling Björgvinsson, Per-Anders Hillgren, Viktor Bergqvist and Marcus Emilson. Demo-paper for the Nordichi,Conference. Århus October 2002, Denmark.
(12) Location in Work Practices: The Social Shaping of a Personal Digital Assistant.
Viktor Bergquist, Marcus Emilson, Philippe Rouchy, Erling Bjarki Björgvinsson, Eva Brandt, Per-Anders Hillgren, Sue Harden. Full paper for the Third Wireless World Conference: The Social Shaping of Mobile Futures. Surrey July 2002.
(11) Partner Engaged Design: New Challenges for Workplace Design,
Martin Johansson, Peter Frost, Eva Brandt, Thomas Binder, Jörn Messeter. Full paper for the Participatory Design Conference (PDC'02), Malmö, June 2002 (p. 162 - 172).
(10) Moving Stories.
Eva Brandt, Maria Hellström, Anna Brag and Isa Hardemo. Paper for the Art/Work Strand at the Participatory Design Conference (PDC'02), Malmö, June 2002 (p. 358 - 361).
(9) Event-Driven Product Development: Collaboration and Learning.
Eva Brandt. Ph.D. Dissertation. Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Management. Technical University of Denmark. March 2001.
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References
Appendix
(8) Moving Stories
Eva Brandt, Isa Hardemo, Anna Brag and Maria Hellström, Demo description for the STIMDI conference, Stockholm, 2001.
(7) Taking Video Beyond 'Hard Data' in User Centered Design.
Jacob Buur, Thomas Binder and Eva Brandt. Full paper presented at the Participatory Design Conference (PDC'00), Nov. 2000, New York (p. 21 - 29). [pdf]
(6) Evoking the Future: Drama and Props in User Centered Design.
Eva Brandt and Camilla Grunnet. Full paper presented at the Participatory Design Conference (PDC'00), Nov. 2000, New York (p. 11 - 20). [pdf]
(5) Design as a Play with Props that Make up for Design Requirements.
Eva Brandt and Camilla Grunnet. Position paper for Workshop on translating children's answers into design requirements: Opportunities and limitations. Presented at the conference I3 Tentative Spring Days, Athens, March 1-3, 2000.
(4) User-Centeredness and Product Development.
Thomas Binder, Eva Brandt and Jacob Buur. Position paper presented at a workshop at the Participatory Design Conference (PDC'98) in Seattle in Nov. 1998.
(3) Staging Events of Collaborative Design and Learning in Product Development.
Thomas Binder, Turid Horgen, Eva Brandt and Gregory Zack. Full paper presented at the Concurrent Engineering Conference in Tokyo, July 1998 (p. 369 - 378).
(1) Customer/User Workshops in Product Development - creating fora for collaboration between different competencies.
Eva Brandt and Thomas Binder. Full paper presented at the International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED97) in Tampere, August 1997 (p. 2/111 - 116).
Publications in danish and swedish
(27) Dørgreb til demente.
Eva Brandt. Artikel i Center for Designforsknings årsrapport 2005. [pdf - 9,4 MB]
(14) Oro i designlabbet. (anxiety in the design lab)
Maria Hellström and Eva Brandt. Chapter in the anthology titled: "Friktion", Raster Forlag, 2003.
(2) Tre uger i ingeniørstudiet (three weeks at the technical university)
Article in Loke no. 4 Nov. 1997. Written together with Thomas Binder and Henrik Buhl.
