Nordes 2025 was very rewarding. Here's a short post with some of my reflections from this design conference on Design after Growth, Vulnerability as Rebellion, and Generative AI and Design Education. #designresearch #designeducation

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"AI and Semantic Pareidolia: When We See Consciousness Where There Is None". A short article for Harvard Business Review (Eng tr. of orig.) on our dangerous tendency to attribute intelligence and much more to AI, the risk of being manipulated, and what can be done about it.
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Check this new Master Programme in Experience Design, Halmstad University (Sweden)! With @resmini.bsky.social and @dimitrees.bsky.social
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uni.oslomet.no/nordes2025/ Good to see NORDES is back. Let’s see if someone from my workgroup makes it there. Side-note: so much of the current ongoing discussion is about compound crises, which feels both validating, and alarming at the same time.

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This is a must listen.
Props to @fridgren.bsky.social for introducing me to the concept of dark matter by @indyjohar.bsky.social. We must examine what is incentivized in current systems, and how to encourage positive change of unsustainable provisional systems.

Poetry is an awesome technology, allowing us to communicate what can’t be said with words.

Life’s a game. Learn, reflect, reframe by playing.

We were saying?

One of my design students told me they are worried and feel hopeless because of the general climate (tough job market, being replaced by AI, all the other stuff..). It’s hard but important to cultivate optimism when the going gets tough.

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Co-Constructing Agency in Human-AI Interactions | Adjunct Proceedings of the 2024 Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. With Yi Luo, Dimitrios Gkouskos, Andrea Resmini dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Apparently this is a thing now.