I generally work as part of larger projects, and here I give a couple of example of either current or previous projects. I tend to be somewhat eclectic though: as long as there is Participatory Design or design methods, or design tools to be worked on, I am generally game. This can be research into the process itself, so how do we engage and design together with people in a particular context? But it can also be a way to bring out the knowledge of the domain experts that are always there.

Tools and Materials in Participatory Design (2011-Eternity)

One of my longest-standing interests have been in how tools and materials are relevant in participatory design and this has resulted in a series of publications, chief among these my doctoral work from 2016, “Design Materials in Participatory Design Processes” which used John Deweys pragmatist philosophy to look at how various materials, digital and physical, scaffold collaboration in various workshop- and prototyping formats.

DREAMS (2021-2023)

DREAMS stands for “Digitally supported Environmental Assessment for Sustainable Development Goals” and the project is a multi-disciplinary collaboration with various academic, company- and NGO stakeholders. The official onepager for the project describes it like Environmental assessments (EAs) are applied worldwide as an important decision support tool in the development of numerous types of projects and plans. Current practices do, however, have drawbacks as highly manual, timeconsuming and inefficient EA processes. Building on experiences from international frontrunners on digitalization, DREAMS utilize the potentials of digitalization to develop novel tools that as open-access platforms will support societal actors in improving EAs practices and thereby promote a more sustainable development.

My main role concerns prototypes of various tools and interfaces but also studying the particular contexts that environmental assessments, and thus such tools and interfaces, would be used in.

Find more information about DREAMS here on the official website

A few publications have come out so far from my involvement in the project:

Johansen, S. S., Jensen, R. H., Schneiders, E., & Hansen, N. B. (2023). Manifestations of a Sound Wave: Establishing Human-Data Relations from a Data-Centred Perspective. Paper presented at Data as a Material for Design, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

Rikke Hagensby Jensen, Stine S. Johansen, Nicolai Brodersen Hansen, Ashna Mahmood Zada, and Peter Axel Nielsen. 2023. Tensions in Data Journey Activities: Mobilising, Processing, Producing, and Re-purposing Data in Environmental Assessment Practice.

GIRAF (2022-)

I started being part of of this project recently - it concerns the development of a system for autistic folks communicating with others using pictures. I made a blogpost you can peep here

STEC (2017-2020)

I did my postdoc in the Netherlands at Eindhoven University of Technology. There, my role was to use design methods to design together with external research partners in a larger project: Smart Technologies, Empowered Citizens (STEC). Financed by the Dutch Research Foundation, this 2.5 million euros project partnered with companies such as Philips Research and KPN, but also smaller citizen empowerment “playmakers” such as Play The City and TransformCity.

CIBIS (2013-2017)

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Demoscene (1998-Eternity)

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Do you think we have something in common? then we definitely should collaborate on something.