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THE DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE,

DESIGN AND MEDIA TECHNOL OG Y

The department’s research concentrates on Architecture, SECTIONS & RESEARCH GROUPS
Urban Design, Industrial Design and Media technology To meet this vision the department is organised in four
within areas such as sustainability, robotics, sound and sections Architecture and Urban Design, Industrial Design and
music analysis & processing, light design, game techno- Media Technology, which is situated in Aalborg as well as in
logy, interaction design etc. We conduct our research Copenhagen. The four sections are further split into thirteen
in close collaboration with a wide range of companies, research groups – each consisting of researcher who
universities and local authorities, and our researchers across sectors and fields of studies cover common ground
participate in both national and international projects. in terms of their research. All research group’s affiliate to a
The common focus points of our research are to investi- section but the members do not necessarily come from the
gate the interplay between creativity and technology, and same - the important thing with a membership is the com-
to use this interplay to fulfill our ambition of delivering mon research interest. The sections and research groups
excellent human design centered technology research. are presented in the following diagram.

DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN AND MEDIA TECHNOLOGY

ARCHITECTURE AND INDUSTRIAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA TECHNOLOGY,
URBAN DESIGN DESIGN AALBORG COPENHAGEN

Urban Design Design Driven Innovation Human Machine Interaction Media Cognition &
Transformation & Mobilities Interactive System
Architecture Audio Analysis Multi-Sensory Experience
Tectonics & Sustainability Laboratory Laboratory
Computer Graphic The Service System Design
Group Laboratory
The Lighting Design
Visual Analysis of People
Research Group
Media Innovation & Game
Research
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