bio:

Peter Gall Krogh is educated as architect and is Professor in Design at the Aarhus School of Architecture in Denmark. His work is marked by a continuous effort to bridge academic, commercial and social interests in experiments and research; pointing to solutions that enable people to pursue desirable and profitable cultural changes both large and small scale.

He has participated and led a wide range of educational programs and research projects in both academia and industry with the focus of integrating services, IT and physical artifacts and spaces. A pivotal point in this has been the research Centre for Interactive Spaces of which he is the co-manager. The educational programs are carried out both at the Aarhus School of Architecture and at Aarhus University.

His research, embedded with the practices of design and architecture, is based in interaction design for pervasive computing with a particular emphasis on tools and techniques for user involvement and the exploitation of bodily experiences and sensations for interacting with computers. His approach is rooted in a strong interest in spatial qualities and encompassed by the concept of Aesthetic Interaction.

Through the establishment of the Aarhus DESIS lab DOP lab (distributed and Open Production), the design of IT systems has become a means along many others in pursuit of sustainability through social innovation in both research and teaching.

Positions held:

1993 - 1998 Industrial designer at Pelikan Design, Copenhagen and Raunkjær Kjærgaard Aarhus.

1998 – 2000 Research assistant Aarhus School of Architecture

2001 – 2003 Assistant Professor Aarhus School of Architecture

2004 – 2008 Associate Professor Aarhus School of Architecture

2008 – 2009 Head of Innovation Interaction design, Alexandra Institute A/S

2009 – 2010 Associate Professor Aarhus School of Architecture

2010 -            Professor Aarhus School of Architecture

Research interests include:

Design and use of physical artefacts and spaces for interaction with computers in augmented reality settings. Pervasive Computing; Tools and techniques for user involvement (Participatory Design).

I take departure in the exploitation of bodily experiences and sensations for interacting with computers encompassed by the concept of Aesthetic Interaction.

Projects and management:

Educational projects:

• Co-manager together with Professor Uffe Lentz of the educational program: Interactive Spaces, sponsered by the Ministry of Culture in Denmark. (1999- 2000).
• Site-manager of the EU-funded Culture2000 educational program SPARK! (2002 – 2004).

Research projects

• Projectmanager of AAA’s share of the EU-funded WorkSPACE project under 5^th Framework Program. (2001 – 2003). Other participants: Computer Science Aarhus University, Sociology Lancaster University

Centre for Interactive Spaces. Co-manager of Centre for Interactive Spaces (2004 – current), responsible for the AAA activities across the centre.

• Project Manager of “Fremtidens Hybride Bibliotek” (#112) and “Children’s Interactive Library” (#124). Supported by ISIS Katrinebjerg
• Project manager of “[IXP] Interactive Experience Spaces” Supported by the Danish “IT-Korridor”.
• Project participant in: the I-Home project, the I-School project and the Normadic Learning project.

Current projects

• Project participant in the iSport research project supported by ISIS Katrinebjerg (2007 – 2009). Participants: Virklund Sports, Zentropa, MerCon, Active Institute, Computer Science Aarhus University.
• Design research manager of the Mobile Home Centre project (2007 – 2010) sponsored by the Danish Advanced Technology Foundation. Participants: Computer Science Aarhus University, Alexandra Institute, Bang & Olufsen

In the academic career managing and co-managing research grants for more than Dkr. 30 mil with budget totals of more than Dkr. 70 mil. For further information on the research projects please refer to encl. 3 of this application.

AWARDS

• The Danish Design Award 2004: Visionprize for the interactive floor: iFloor
• Best paper Award OzChi 2004 Gitte Lindgaard award for “Help Me Pull That Cursor”, Co authored with Andreas Lykke-Olesen and Martin Ludvigsen.
• RED DOT award 2006. For the ”Knowledge well”.
• The Nordes best-paper and best presentation award 2007.

BOARDS, COMMITTEES AND COMMUNITY SERVICES

• General board of SIGCHI.dk (2001 – 2002)
• Appointed member of the research board at the Aarhus school of Architecture (2001 – 2002)
• Managing board of Master Class for Professional Danish designers (2000 - 2002)
• Member of the organizing committee for the 4th decennial Aarhus Conference: www.aarhus2005.org
• Program co-chair of the 1st Nordic conference on Design Research
• Member of Nordes Board: www.nordes.org
• Conference Program Committee member of: NODEM, Nordes, Tangible and Embodied Interaction
• General Conference co-chair DIS 2010.
• External Examiner of B.Sc. in Digital Media Design at University of Limerick, Ireland.