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Congratulations to Ylva Fernaeus on her installation as Professor of Design at Umeå Institute of Design today. 🎉

Ylva’s research explores how we can design more sustainable technological futures by making visible what does not yet exist. Her work invites us to think critically about the relationship between reality and vision, and the role of design in a world where the boundaries between the real and the imagined are becoming increasingly blurred.

As Ylva puts it:
”Designers must work openly, critically and take responsibility for their decisions, always in relation to challenges in the physical world.”

We are proud to celebrate this important milestone and look forward to Ylva’s continued contributions to design research, education, and the development of more thoughtful and responsible technological futures.

#UmeåInstituteOfDesign #DesignResearch #Professor #UmeåUniversity taken in Umeå Institute of Design by @umeainstituteofdesign

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Applications are now open.

Ready to shape the future through design?

Apply to: 
• BFA Programme in Industrial Design • MFA Advanced Product Design • MFA Interaction Design • MFA Transportation Design

Join an international community of students, teachers and researchers at Umeå Institute of Design.

🔗 Explore our programmes, application requirements and important dates via the link in our bio

#UmeaInstituteOfDesign #UID #StudyDesign #DesignEducation #IndustrialDesign taken in Umeå Institute of Design by @umeainstituteofdesign

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3 days ago

Design by day. Northern lights by night. ✨

Captured by MFA Advanced Product Design student Cheolhun Cheon, this incredible display reminds us that some of Umeå’s most inspiring experiences happen outside the studio.

#UmeåInstituteOfDesign #NorthernLights #Umeå #StudyInSweden #StudentLife taken in Umeå Institute of Design by @umeainstituteofdesign

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5 days ago

From future worlds to future interactions. 🌍✨

Last week, our first-year MFA Interaction Design students prepared for the Futures Bazaar together with students from the Cognitive Interaction Design course, a playful design fiction workshop where imagined futures become tangible experiences.

Working in teams, students explored future scenarios such as Resilient, Green, Wild, Playful and Creative Futures. Using found materials and everyday objects, they built speculative artefacts that might exist in these worlds, then brought them to life through storytelling, debate and exchange at the bazaar.

The workshop marked the beginning of a journey that will lead to the creation of future organisations, brands, products and digital interfaces, challenging students to think critically about how design shapes the worlds we may one day inhabit.

#UmeaInstituteOfDesign #InteractionDesign #DesignFiction #FutureBazaar #SpeculativeDesign taken in Umeå Institute of Design by @umeainstituteofdesign

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13 days ago

What can a vegetable peeler teach us about design?

Quite a lot, it turns out.

During a BFA2 course in ergonomics, students explored how people interact with handheld tools through observation, analysis and user testing.

The project moved between the studio and the field. Students evaluated everyday kitchen tools, interviewed staff from Umeå Municipality’s Streets and Parks department, and studied how professional users work with pruning and maintenance tools in public environments.

Different contexts, different users, same design challenge: understanding the relationship between people and the tools they use.

#UmeaInstituteOfDesign #BFAIndustrialDesign #DesignEducation #Ergonomics #UserResearch taken in Umeå Institute of Design by @umeainstituteofdesign

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14 days ago

Sunday morning surf session at Salusand 🌊

Less than an hour from UID, students spent the morning chasing waves and the afternoon sharing lunch on the beach.

Not your typical design school experience.

#UmeåInstituteOfDesign #StudentLife #StudyInSweden #Surfing #Umeå taken in Salusands Havsbad by @umeainstituteofdesign

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20 days ago

Meet Petra Jääskeläinen, our new postdoctoral researcher at UmArts and UID

Petra recently completed her PhD at KTH, where she explored how we might rethink Creative AI through more-than-human perspectives and environmental posthumanities.

At UmaArts and UID, her research continues through a two-year Kempe-funded postdoctoral project investigating new ways of understanding and designing Creative AI. The project is developed in connection with the upcoming AI art exhibition at Bildmuseet.

By questioning the assumptions that shape today's AI systems, Petra's work opens up new possibilities for how design can contribute to more thoughtful, critical, and sustainable relationships between creativity, technology, and the world around us.

Welcome Petra! 👋

#UmeåInstituteofDesign #UIDResearch #CreativeAI #DesignResearch #PostdoctoralResearch #AI #CriticalDesign #UmArts #Bildmuseet by @umeainstituteofdesign

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21 days ago

🎨 Ansökan är öppen!

Vill du utveckla din kreativitet och bygga en portfolio för vidare studier inom design, formgivning eller arkitektur?
Konstnärlig Grund i Design är ett ettårigt kurspaket på Designhögskolan vid Umeå universitet.

✅ Arbetsprover ute nu 📅 Ansökan öppen 15 sep–15 okt 🔗 Läs mer via länken i bio

#designutbildning #designhögskolan #formgivning #arkitektur #design taken in Umeå Institute of Design by @umeainstituteofdesign

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24 days ago

From UID to shaping the future of sustainable materials.

After graduating from the Bachelor's Programme in Industrial Design, alumna Kim Onchoi has built a practice focused on materials, sustainability and the relationships between people, design and the natural world.

In our latest alumni story, she reflects on curiosity, collaboration and what it means to make materials matter.

#UmeaInstituteOfDesign #UIDAlumni #IndustrialDesign #SustainableDesign #MaterialsDesign by @umeainstituteofdesign

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a month ago

How do you read a city? 👀

Recently, our first-year students in the Bachelor’s Programme in Industrial Design explored Umeå through walking, observing, documenting and discussing. Through a series of exercises, they practised paying attention to the qualities, details and atmospheres that shape our experience of a place.

By slowing down and looking closely, students began building the intuition, curiosity and critical eye that are central to a designer’s practice.

Images: @kareyhelms

#UmeåInstituteofDesign #IndustrialDesign #DesignEducation #Umeå taken in Umeå Institute of Design by @umeainstituteofdesign

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Research starts with questions, conversations, and the things we make.

At the first research seminar of the semester, members of UID's research environment gathered around objects that represent their current work, from prototypes and material samples to books, visualisations and emerging ideas.

Using these artefacts as starting points, the session sparked conversations across disciplines and perspectives, helping shape a shared agenda for the year ahead.

A curious and collaborative start to the semester.

#UmeaInstituteOfDesign #UIDResearch #DesignResearch #ResearchSeminar #ResearchThroughDesign by @umeainstituteofdesign

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a month ago

🎨 Ansökan är öppen!

Vill du utveckla din kreativitet och bygga en portfolio för vidare studier inom design, formgivning eller arkitektur?
Konstnärlig Grund i Design är ett ettårigt kurspaket på Designhögskolan vid Umeå universitet.

✅ Arbetsprover ute nu 📅 Ansökan öppen 15 sep–15 okt 🔗 Läs mer via länken i bio

#designutbildning #designhögskolan #formgivning #arkitektur #design by @umeainstituteofdesign

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