Senior Lecturer, Interaction Design. PhD in Education Sciences.
Elisabet Nilsson, Ph.D. Educational Sciences, holds a position as Senior Lecturer in Interaction Design at the School of Arts and Communication(K3), Malmö University. Her overall research interest concerns the relationships between social change and technological development, and how the introduction of new technologies and mediating tools evoke new patterns of behaviour and thinking. Since 2010 she has been working in the field of interaction design running research projects conducted in real-world settings, applying participatory design, and living lab methodologies. In one way or another, all her projects circulate around matters of sustainability with a focus on tools and methods for prototyping alternative futures and promoting dialogue, collaboration and knowledge transfer. Besides research activities, she also teaches at the Interaction Design Master’s and Bachelor’s Programmes at K3. In Living Archives, she has been part of developing the research themes Co-archivingand Urban Archiving.