Anne-Lene Sand
  • Ågade 10

    6000 Kolding

    Denmark

20102024

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I am an associate professor in pedagogy and design in the Lab for Play and Design at Design School Kolding, where I handle a special subject area on young people and play. I have a Ph.D. in Child and Youth Culture from the Department of Cultural Studies, University of Southern Denmark. Keywords in my research are: anthropology, play, youth research, institutional analyses, pedagogy, participation, communities, self-organization, neo-materialism, phenomenology, urban studies, place, ethnographic method, design ethnography, ethics. I am particularly interested in materials, material-based communities and experiments and improvisation with multimodal materials and practices, Reflexive method use is a major field of interest for me, where methodical work with design processes, senses, materials, places, spaces and people is the subject of analytical attention. At the School of Design, I am the initiator of an effort on ethics and design with a view to reflecting and developing ethics sensorially and situationally. 


I am responsible for a research and development project at Efterskolen Play on the Design and Construction line, where we research how young people play through design education and multimodal experiments. 


In close collaboration with professor Helle Marie Skovbjerg, Jess Uhre Rahbek, Ane Bjerre Odgaard and Jeppe Bundsgaard, I am engaged in a new design research project which is about establishing a playful transition from kindergarten to school. The project is financed by Denmark's Free Research Foundation. During this project we have a close collaboration with professor Lisa Grocott, Shanti Sumartojo and Stacy Holeman Jones, Monash University, Australia.

I am a Danish editor at the Nordic Journal of Youth Research and initiator of the current interview series "Nordic Youth Researchers - a retrospective with today's brushstrokes". I can recommend curious readers to look at the first interview with Professor Kirsten Drotner.


I am a PhD supervisor and thesis supervisor at the School of Design. In addition, I am part of the censor corps for educational anthropology, Aarhus University. I am available as both assistant and main supervisor for PhD students.

I have been a visiting researcher at the Department of Science, Arctic University of Norway (2018, 2019), assistant professor at the Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Southern Denmark (2011-2019), The Swedish School for Sport and Health Science (2015), Roskilde University research program Space, Place, Mobility and Urban Studies (2013) and University of British Columbia, Department for Education (2012).

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  • City
  • Design