In a very short time Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design has succeeded in creating a vibrant and inspiring environment and raised the bar for design education and research in Denmark. Their international faculty, their unique combination of education, research and consulting and the institute’s outreach have made CIID an essential part of the Danish design environment.

One of their really great offerings to the design environment outside the institute is their open lecture programme. Each year CIID invite prominent people from their extensive international network to come to Copenhagen and teach at their courses – and give open lectures while they are here anyway. The list of previous and upcoming speakers is long (you will find my name on it twice…) and they just added the next coming three lectures this spring: Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, Nicholas Wakeham and John Holager. While I only know Mette from the distance through her work at CITA, I have had the pleasure of working with both Nicholas and John previously.

A couple of years ago my company Move worked with Live|Work on a service design project for the pension company PFA. John is working as a senior service designer with Live|Work and during the project we did a joined workshop at their offices in Oslo. On a warm sunny day in June we had a great time discussing and producing experience prototypes for PFA’s clients to test and give feedback on the new service. John is still with Live|Work and on March 17 he will present some of his current thinking on the discipline of service design.

Posted by Jesper Pagh - read his full article here: http://blogs.denmark.dk/