Anne-Lene Sand

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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. Since 2022, I have collaborated with Professor Helle Marie Skovbjerg, Shanti Sumartojo, Lisa Grocott and Stacy Holemann Jones, Monash University, where we work with the development of playful method use. This year we have published a joint article in Qualitative Studies about playful academic approaches to writing and the production of knowledge. I am a Danish editor at the Nordic Journal of Youth Research and initiator and responsible editor for the theme issue Ungdomsoprør. 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 accept PhD students. I have been on several long-term fieldwork, i.a. in the Gymnasium (3 months), Recreation and Youth School under the auspices of Århus Municipality (4 months), urban spaces (2.5 years) and elementary school (1.5 years). 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).