Month: February 2012

In April this year i was invited to give a TED talk at the closing session of the TEDxSummit in Doha, Qatar about a project from Frugal Digital (a research track we run at CIID on innovation for “base of the pyramid” using simple, improvised low cost technologies . It was one of the highlights of this… Continue reading The TED talk experience

Frugal Digital is a research group at CIID that focuses on researching methods and practices around creating digital solutions in low resource settings like that of developing economies. We work on projects to set the framework, create tools and provide inspiration for frugal innovators around the globe. We have written a manifesto and it begins with… Continue reading Frugal Digital : simple tech for low resource settings

Toyota and CIID’s innovative ‘Window to the World’ interactive vehicle concept won the 2012 Core77 Design Award in the Speculative category. The concept, by engineers and designers from the Kansei* Design Division of Toyota Motor Europe and the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID), aims to re-define relationships between passengers and the world surrounding the vehicle. Using… Continue reading CIID wins Core 77 awards

Recently in a conversation with a senior executive at Dong Energy – Denmark’s largest energy company we touched up a very interesting area for designers and data nerds. We started wondering how data visualisation can actually start impacting energy efficiency. Energy is an invisible resource that is offered as an intangible service. Today data about how the distribution patterns, efficiencies and consumption patterns… Continue reading Visualizing the grid : Data visualization for better energy efficiency