Associate Professor, IT University of Copenhagen (Docent, Ph.D.)
Previous surnames Nilsson (–2000) and Messeter (2000–2017)
E-mail: jrme@itu.dk
Profile
I am a design researcher in the fields of Participatory Design and Co-design. My current research focus is on relational design, co-design, infrastructuring and institutioning in the public sector.
Current
I’m currently working on a book project with the working title ‘A Place for Design’. My aim is to adapt place theory to better understand the agentic capacities of design settings for infrastructuring.
Recent projects
During 2024 I was on sabbatical as visiting scholar at School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney.
I recently closed a project with the title CAPE – Civic Agency in Public E-service innovation – which I headed as PI. The project was a Nordic collaboration financed by Nordforsk in the period 2020–2023 with partners in Denmark, Sweden and Finland. In the project we explored new models for organising civic engagement in design of public e-services with public libraries as a platform.