Dear all,
Please see the attached invite to the 2026 Nordes summer school.
Out of studios // on to sites:
Temporalities of living (design research) labs in the wild
To be held In Copenhagen, August 18th - 21st
The Nordes summer school in 2026 invites design researchers to embed their work in a specific site and imagine how that site might change their work and the work might change the site’s future. Site matters: Its particulars inform our research interests and aims, and our being there impacts particulars seen and unseen. This includes potential participants invited and not invited to engage, places remade to scaffold encounters, and outcomes framed to scope concerns among other things. In this way, perhaps starting with a site is not about what it might provide for design research, and instead about what doing design research does, regardless of what it intends to do. We expect participants to gain a new perspective on their own research as inflected by the site, as well as a combination of public, expert, and collegial feedback on projects that can help propel the work forward. Together, we hope to build a network of practitioners that can push the boundaries of design research and help to construct the practice in the future.
Deadline for application closes April 20th.
On behalf of co-organizers Thomas Binder, Karey Helms, Tom Jenkins, Tau Lenskjold, Heidi Pitarinen, and Anna-Mamusu Wehlitz
Tom Jenkins, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and co-head of IxD Lab
HCI and Design Section
IT University of Copenhagen
