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Digital Design and Information Studies
You are here: School of Communication and Culture About the school Departments Digital Design and Information Studies
The Department of Digital Design and Information Studies is one of the strongest academic IT environments in Europe and attracts visiting scholars and PhD students from all over the world. We focus on information technology as a feature of people's everyday lives and futures. As a result, we have a strong connection between theory and practice and play a role in a great number of national and international collaborations.
The department is structured around three research units: Science and Technology Studies, Interactive Design, and Digital Aesthetics and Culture. These are cross-disciplinary fields involving research in organisations, communication, IT, design, society and technology; with research topics covering areas such as health IT, interaction processes, systems development, interface culture, surveillance, IT in urban spaces, and IT and business.
Digital Aesthetics and Culture
Our degree programmes in digital design and information studies are deeply anchored in research in the department, and enthusiastic students have the opportunity of getting involved in research projects and student jobs. Our degree programmes are based at Katrinebjerg and form part of a wider, dynamic IT community with neighbours such as Google and B&O.
You can learn more about the content of our degree programmes in the study guide.
Bachelor's degree programme in digital design
Supplementary subject in digital design
Master's degree programme in digital design
Master's degree programme in digital design, audio-design line
Bachelor's degree programme in information studies
Supplementary subject in information studies – IT and organisations
Master's degree programme in information studies
Master's degree programme in information studies, digital life line
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Kata Börönte
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Jens Christensen
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Kasper Skov Christensen
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Benoît Dalbert
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Peter Dalsgaard
Jens Christian Skou fellow
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Morten Damsgaard-Madsen
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Peter Danholt
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Christian Dindler
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Anne Marie Dinesen
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Eva Eriksson
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Malthe Stavning Erslev
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Jeanette Falk Olesen
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Julie Bladt Goodall
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Kim Halskov
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Katrine Hamborg
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Lone Koefoed Hansen
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Stig Møller Hansen
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Esben Hardenberg
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Adriënne Heijnen
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Mikkel Hjorth
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Katrine Holm Kanstrup
Chief Consultant
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Ole Sejer Iversen
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Lotte Groth Jensen
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Jens Magnus Johansen
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Asnath Paula Kambunga
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Clemens Nylandsted Klokmose
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Peter Lauritsen
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Birgitte Kvist Laursen
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Timo Leimbach
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The Organisation for Students of Digital Design (ODDS)
The Society for Students of Information Studies (SAIS)
UNITY Katrinebjerg
DD LAB
13:00-16:00 | Aarhus University, The Large Auditorium, INCUBA Science Park, Katrinebjerg, Building 5510, Room 103, Aabogade 15, 8200 Aarhus.
PhD Defence Stig Møller Hansen - Master of IT, Interaction Design and Multimedia
public class Graphic_Design implements Code { // Yes, but how? } An investigation towards bespoke Creative Coding programming courses in graphic design education.
2019.05.20 | Afd. for Digital Design og Informationsvidenskab
WRO 2019 Awards
Artist-Researcher Winnie Soon receives WRO 2019 Biennale Award Winnie is now exhibiting two artworks at Four Domes Pavilion in WRO Media Art Biennale, one of the leading forums for new media art in Poland and Central Europe. Her work "Unerasable Images" receives the WRO 2019 Award.
Opening of Center for Computational Thinking & Design
November 2nd at 14.00-16.00 at Aarhus University, Peter Bøgh Andersen Auditoriet, Finlandsgade 21, 8200 Aarhus N
CENSUS welcomes new postdoc Clare Southerton
Clare joins the center to work on the Childhood, Intimacy and Surveillance Practices (CHiP) project.
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The decennial Aarhus conference – August 2015
1975-1985-1995-2005 — the decennial Aarhus conferences have traditionally been instrumental for setting new agendas for critically engaged thinking about information technology. The fifth decennial Aarhus conference, Critical Alternatives, aims to set new agendas for theory and practice in computing for quality of human life.
The conference series is fundamentally interdisciplinary and emphasizes thinking that is firmly anchored in action, intervention, and scholarly critical practice. With the title Critical Computing – between sense and sensibility, the 2005 edition of the conference marked that computing was rapidly seeping into everyday life. In 2015, we see critical alternatives in alignment with utopian principles—that is, the hope that things might not only be different but also radically better. At the same time, radically better alternatives don't emerge out of nowhere: they emerged from contested analyses of the mundane present and demand both commitment and labor to work towards them. Critical alternatives matter and make people reflect.
Read more about the conference
Follow our research in APRJA – "A Peer-Reviewed Journal About"
APRJA is an open-access research journal that addresses the ever-shifting thematic frameworks of digital culture. APRJA stands for "A Peer-Reviewed Journal About" and invites the addition of a research topic to address what is considered to be key aspects of contemporary digital art and culture.
Read the New issue: Datafied Research Volume 4, Issue 1, 2015.
Students designing for the future
At the Department of Digital Design and Information Studies we help our students to meet the business community and find out what it's like to be an entrepreneur.
For instance, once a year our students are challenged to compose a design that solves a social problem. During this process they gain contact with interest groups, have prototypes developed at design companies, and test the resulting products on a test panel. Finally, they present their designs at a trade fair which is evaluated by experts in entrepreneurship.
Read more about the latest trade fair: Design Expo 2015 (in Danish only)
New telemedicine research network
Researchers at the Department of Digital Design and Information Studies work on the interaction between people and IT, which is why they have been included in Aarhus University's new focus area: an interdisciplinary telemedicine research network. The main idea of the network is that it should be open and inclusive to ensure that everyone with an interest in telemedicinal solutions can take part – including not only people at Aarhus University, but also companies and other external stakeholders.
Read more about the research network (in Danish only)
Interactive Terracotta Warrior
The researchers at the Department of Digital Design and Information Studies are often involved in external collaboration. For instance, they added an interactive dimension to Moesgaard Museum's exhibition about the terracotta warriors.
To illustrate the fact that the terracotta warriors of emperor Qin Shi Huangdi's tomb were all painted, CAVI in collaboration with Moesgaard Museum made an interactive part of the temporary exhibition, "The First Emperor – China's Terracotta Army", which ran April 1 - September 30, 2015.
Read more about the exhibition and what the researchers have done.
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