Vanessa has a background in art and technology, academia, and interaction design. She holds a BSc. in Interactive Art and Technology (Canada), a MSc. of Interaction Design (Sweden), and a PhD with the topic: “Designing for Meaningfulness in Future Smart Products” (Denmark). Here are her articles, articles she's participated in, and podcasts and other media to which she's contributed.
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VICE – Broadly: Vanessa vil have dig til at pille din smartphone fra hinanden og tage magten tilbage
Ok Xoomer: EP60 | Vanessa Carpenter | Design Meaningful, Human-centric Technology
ING.dk: Denmark’s Engineering News : Greater Spaces, Women in Technology
(See the Greater Spaces blog in Danish, and in English).
Forum Business Magazine: Teknikfetischisternas antiklimax: ”Nej tack, inte ännu en ’smart’ pryl!”
Tech Truster: 3 Principles for Designing for Meaningfulness: (Danish) (English)
ING.dk: Ung ph.d kæmper for teknologiskift mod “meningsfuldt” design
LAYOUT Magazine: Meeting the Urbanists (Japanese)
DR News (Danish Broadcasting Corporation) – smart jewellery devices: BILLEDER Intelligente smykker til epileptikere samt stressede kvinder and Design Ure & Smykker magazine (pgs 38-41).
TechTruster: 5 questions to ask before you buy a wearable / 5 spørgsmål du skal stille, inden du køber en wearable
Innovatemedtec: Early, Iterative, Functional: How to develop the right medical device to actually help people.
Greater Spaces: Expanding the narrative of who creates technology and what they are doing.
Blinde Vinkler: (Danish) “Femtech bevægelsen rammer overgangsalderen” (The Femtech movement hits Menopause)
TECHTOPIA 171: Create meaningful technology for humans (English from 1:25)
Kortsluttet / DR P1 “Julen er nørdernes fest” (Danish)
Articles published in scientific proceedings:
GeekPhysical Press here.
Vanessa's company, Kintsugi Design, specializes in designing new technologies, strategies, and futures with meaningfulness at the core of their practice. The below examples open on Kintsugi Design's website.
Vanessa speaks at conferences, on podcasts, as part of panel debates, and in digital sessions about Designing for Meaningfulness.