Projects per year
Personal profile
Curriculum vitae
Education:
2021-2024 PhD project: ‘Exploring an experimental and material-based colour design process’, Design School Kolding
2019-2020 University Pedagogy, University of Southern Denmark
2017 Certified NCS Colour Adviser, NCS Stockholm
2015-2016 Certified Process Consultant, Go-process and VIA Århus
2009 Project management, IBC Kolding
2002-2003 Design Academy Eindhoven, Man & Well-being, The Netherlands
1999-2004 Design School Kolding, Textile Design
1996-1999 Teacher’s college of Art and Crafts, Art department, Kerteminde
1989-1992 Upper Secondary School, Morsø Gymnasium
Employed at Design School Kolding since 2009
Research areas
Coming from a background in classical design with a passion for form, colour, materials, aesthetics and craftsmanship and with no extended training in academic work, it is a key theme in my research to explore how I can attune a familiar process of designing products and solutions to a process of developing knowledge and in particular how traditional design methods can be adapted to research methods. I apply a constructive design research methodology in the ‘experiential tradition’ which is described as an epistemic practice where knowledge is generated from “experiential insights and objects resulting from design processes” (Gall Krogh & Koskinen 2020 p. 27). The methodology allows the design researcher to deviate from objective scientific measurements and instead apply a first-person perspective and keep an openness in the process in order to capture situated and embodied experiences. This corresponds to the development within artistic research and autoethnography which also acknowledge insights coming from the researcher’s own subjectivity, voice, and experiences.
See a selection of projects on www.gemakker.com
And the ongoing PhD project on: www.kolor.dk
Research area
- Design
- Arts and crafts
- Thinking-through-making
- Materials
- Fashion and textiles
- Process and method
- Aesthetic practice
- Auto-ethnographic methods
- Artistic Research
- Aesthetics and form
- Colour
- Atmosphere
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Exploring an experimental and material-based colour design practice
Høgh-Mikkelsen, M., Brandt, E. & Peder Pedersen, C.
01/01/2021 → 30/09/2025
Project: PhD project
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Archive of Beautiful Colours: or When the Doctrine was Overthrown by Lived Experience and Love
Høgh-Mikkelsen, M., 24 Mar 2023.Publications: Contribution to conference › Paper › Research › peer-review
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Kunstnerisk udviklingsvirksomhed: På Designskolen Kolding, Det Kongelige Akademi og Arkitektskolen Aarhus
Høgh-Mikkelsen, M., Gelting, A. K. G., Jensen, T. B., Peder Pedersen, C., Hansen, F. T., Grønbæk, N., Bertram, P. & Foged Gjelstrup, H., Sept 2023, 52 p.Publications: Book / Anthology / Thesis / Report › Report › Commissioned
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Beauty and the Act of Narrating Material Aesthetics
Høgh-Mikkelsen, M., 2022Publications: Non-textual form › Sound/Visual production (digital) › Research
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Fuck up to a grade A
Høgh-Mikkelsen, M., 2022. 10 p.Publications: Contribution to conference › Paper › Research › peer-review
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Poetic Expressions: Video and Artefact as Phenomenological Reflection in Constructive Design Research
Høgh-Mikkelsen, M., 2022.Publications: Contribution to conference › Paper › Research › peer-review
Activities
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Workshop with Shanti Sumartojo, visiting professor from Monash University, Australia
Shanti Sumartojo (Organizer), Helle Marie Skovbjerg (Organizer), Maria Høgh-Mikkelsen (Participant), Jess Uhre Rahbek (Participant), Lotte Agnes Lausen (Participant), Anne-Lene Sand (Participant) & Jesper Falck Legaard (Participant)
25 Oct 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Joint Viva 23
Connie Svabo (Speaker), Anette Stenslund (Speaker), Claus Peder Pedersen (Participant), Maria Høgh-Mikkelsen (Participant) & Alexandra Harder Lindek (Participant)
6 Oct 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Roskilde University
Maria Høgh-Mikkelsen (Visiting researcher) & Linda Lapina (Visiting researcher)
21 Sept 2023 → 19 Dec 2023Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution
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Skriverliv: Skrivning som kreativ analytisk praksis
Charlotte Wegener (Organizer), Ninna Meier (Organizer), Maria Høgh-Mikkelsen (Participant) & Alexandra Harder Lindek (Participant)
4 Sept 2023 → 6 Sept 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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AutoEtno Group (External organisation)
Linda Lapina (Chair), Maria Høgh-Mikkelsen (Member), Marta Padovan-Özdemir (Member), Katia Dupret (Member) & Jo Krøjer (Member)
Sept 2023 → …Activity: Membership › Membership in research network
Press/Media
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Ved at skifte de hvide vægge og lyse gulve ud med farver kan du opnå mere ro i hjemmet
27/03/2022
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Marimekko satte kvindefællesskaber, bæredygtighed og kunsthåndværk på landkortet
24/11/2021
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media