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Season 7—Spring 2026  ·  12 episodes  ·  Through-line: the human architecture of institutional change
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Mads Soegaard

Interaction Design Foundation
Mads Soegaard

I'm currently editor at Interaction-Design.org. Until recently, I've worked at The Danish National Technological Institute working with research in industry. Until March 2000 I was one of three partners in Csite.com, a web development company of about 11 people. It went out of business in 2009. I've worked in the eBusiness Think Tank of Daimler in the corporate headquarters in Berlin (DaimlerChrysler Financial Services). I've worked as a lecturer at the Department of Information and Media Studies at the University of Aarhus. I've been a PHD student at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Aarhus and spent a semester in Paul Dourish's research group at University of California at Irvine. I've spent six months at University of Tasmania's School of Psychology. I lived six months in Paris while working at La Maison du Danemark. I spent one back-breaking year in the Danish infantry back in '95. I lived one year in Gladstone, Manitoba, Canada, back in '92-'93.

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Book Excerpt  ·  Crisis Engineering

The Crisis Worth Using

The five indicators of a genuinely useful crisis—and the difference between the kind that opens a window for transformational change and the kind that merely accelerates collapse. Excerpted from Crisis Engineering.

7 min read April 2025 ◆ The Useful Crisis
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Guest Article

When the Window Opens: A Field Guide to Crisis Seizing

Written for UXM as a companion to the episode. Not theory—what Marina actually does when she walks into a failing system with a 90-day mandate and no authority to hire. Practical, specific, and unsettling in the best way.

11 min read April 2025 ◆ The Useful Crisis

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The Useful Crisis
S7 Ep. 4  ·  7 pieces  ·  April 2025