PhD student
E-mail: soren.rosenbak@umu.se
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Background
I hold an MA & BA in design from The Royal Danish Academy of
Fine Arts, School of Design (DK) with a year of his MA spent abroad
at Media Lab in Aalto University - School of Arts, Design &
Architecture (FI). Further, I am a graduate of The European Film
College (DK). I have done design work for a diverse range of
clients including Audi, Vattenfall, Roskilde Festival, Design
Museum Helsinki, The Danish Ministry of Climate, Energy and
Building and is the proud recipient of the Memefest/Queensland
College of Art - Griffith University Award for Imaginative Critical
Intervention (2012).
What I do at UID
I contribute to the teaching in the different educations at UID,
parallell to carrying out my PhD studies.
Research
Pataphysics, formulated by the French symbolist poet Alfred
Jarry in Paris, 1893, clashes with the design discipline in a
number of ways. As an inherently useless concept, pataphysics
challenges 'usefulness' as a historical design imperative, with
further questions arising around how we attribute value to design
artefacts and how we consider 'knowledge' in the process of
designing. However, at the same breath, design and pataphysics can
be characterised through surprising degrees of affinity. In the
same manner as pataphysics favours the particular over the general
to a point where every instance is understood as an (equivalent)
exception, a design solution can be read as an "ultimate
particular" (Nelson & Stolterman, 2012). The excitement over
this complicated relationship, enjoying a simultaneous state of
attraction and repulsion, lies at the heart of my PhD project,
where I'm working with the prototyping of a pata-design practice
through a series of design experiments. This journey has so far
taken me through areas such as impossible printing,
metadatamorphosis and urban walking.
My advisors are Johan Redström (Umeå Institute of Design, Umeå
University) and Carl DiSalvo (Georgia Institute of Technology).
Areas of interest
Critical design practices incl. speculative and critical design,
design fictions, pataphysics, the relationship between design &
science, data privacy, urban walking, design failures, design
anthropology.
Talk to me about:
Critical design practices incl. speculative and critical design,
design fictions, pataphysics, the relationship between design &
science, data privacy, urban walking, design failures, design
anthropology.
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