Economies: Organizing, Valuating and Working
The relationship between art, design and the wider economy - markets, organisations and labour - is explored in this theme. Classic and new questions about the functions and dysfunctions of the economy are exposed and explored with practitioners in art and design research.
The research also examines the specific characteristics of the economies and organisation of art and design; how value is produced, imagined and represented in these fields, and how organisational change can be created through art and design. As technology is closely linked to economics, markets and organisations - and has a major influence on art and design - the research has a strong emphasis on a critical examination of the impact of technology, including its organisation, materials and algorithms.
Helena Kraff, Research Cluster Leader
Helena Kraff is cluster leader for the research cluster Economies - organisation, valuation and work. Helena's main research focus is participatory design. My research is often action-based, transdisciplinary and in collaboration with researchers and practitioners from other disciplines and fields.
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Erling Björgvinsson
Erling Björgvinsson's research focuses on participatory politics in design and art. In particular, the dynamics of power and change as they are imagined and performed in art and design through historical and material practices that enable, govern and constrain ways of being and imagining.
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Elena Raviola
Elena Raviola's main research interest lies in understanding the role that technology and other material artefacts play in organising and managing professional work, especially in cultural and creative fields. More specifically, she is interested in how professional norms, rules, structures and ideas are created, changed and maintained in practice, and how technology intervenes in these professional practices and changes over time what is considered professional.
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Samantha Hookway
Samantha Hookway's design and artistic work often focuses on collaborative making, working across disciplines in teams from different parts of academia and industry. Her interests lie in working with creativity in contexts that have forgotten that creativity is necessary. She is particularly driven by the power of the in-between, a window that holds the potential for design possibilities - where the window can act as a transition in our experiences or is a literal piece of glass that sits between worlds.
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Helena Hansson
Helena Hansson is a senior lecturer at the Design Unit, HDK-Valand. She has a background as an industrial designer, strategic designer and as a teacher. She has worked in several development projects in Sweden within strategic craft development.
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