Last tuesday, August 1st, was my first day at my new temporary job as visiting associate research professor at the Center for Designforskning (Center for Design Research), located at the School of Architecture (aka "Karch") at Holmen, right next to the Opera. During my 12-month position there, I will primarily be working on and completing a book about the development of design, aesthetics and interaction on the www from the early 1990's to the present day with my colleague Ida Engholm (with whom I also co-edited the Digitale Verdener anthology). I will also in general help out organising and participating in activities in relation to the Center's research theme on Aesthetics & Interaction.

The first week has been a bit confused for various reasons and holiday among the admin staff, so I still need to get a permanent office space, keys and access card, and wireless internet access that works, but judging from previous experience, a bit of confusion and a lot of running around to talk to various admin people is just part and parcel of the starting-at-a-new-university- institution-experience....At least, at Karch, I haven't had to walk for miles to find an office where I had to sign a document in which I promised that as an employee I would commit no terrorist acts against the Danish state, which is what I had to do to get officially accepted as visiting researcher at Georgia Tech (only that is was of course a promise not to commit terrorist acts against US).

Anyway, the overall intention of the coming year is to do RESEARCH and to do it in peace and quiet. Yeah! Therefore, in the time to come, it has for a while been my intention to have a few "working-at-home" days on a regular basis, and therefore, as a treat, I've now decided to upgrade my home office! Today I bought a small laser printer and a printer server, so I can work in a completely wireless and print efficient environment (read: at the big table in my small living room without any cables!). Once the system is up and running, I will have taken yet another bold step towards total geek-dom...
# posted by Lisbeth at: 15:54