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The Institute is an arena for people, companies, governments and universities to Co-Design Innovations.

Many perspectives and stakeholders can, will and should be brought in the process of innovation and design. The ability to do so we call Co-Design and is the heart and soul of Calistoga Springs Research Institute. Over the years we have developed an approach to do this, called Ideal Oriented Co-Design. It is a framework for innovation, design, and change.'

City Move Interdesign

Lars Albinsson, together with 40 people from 18 nations, participated in the 2009 City Mover Interdesign in Gellivare. The focus of the Interdesign was to explore design thinking in response to the challengens that face cities that needs to move. In northern Sweden, Gellivare and Kiruna needs to move because of the expansion of mines. In other parts of the world cities need to move for instance because of rising sea levels. More on the Interdesign can be found at SVID. The ideas and outcome of the group Lars was a member of can be found here, as a pdf of large panels. The exhibition with all the groups' ideas will travel across the world during 2009.

Best Paper Award
We are proud to announce that three members of the institute recieved the "Best Paper Award" in the eChallenges 2007 conference in The Hague, The Netherlands. Co-Design: An approach to border crossing, Network Innovation was chosen to be the best among some 300 presentations from 41 countries.

Some publications (all in PDF format. Some are not downloadable for copyright reasons)

Title	Purpose	Author
Stakeholders and IS innovation	This paper is submitted for the examination of the literature study course with the same name, supervisor Prof. Göran Goldkuhl. It is provided at the request of fellow researchers.	Lars Albinsson
Framtidens städer formas med hjälp av berättelser	Presentation on the co-design process for relocating Malmberget and developing Gällivare. Especially how large amounts of citizens and other stakeholders are contributing using narratives. 2010.	Lars Albinsson
Det som inte går att ta på	Introduction to Magazine on urban development. Focuses on the emergence of design of intangible artifacts and how intangible qualities are becomming more important and valuable. 2010.	Lars Albinsson
Citizens´ Services - Nordic and Baltic Research Needs	Report from Nordic Council research project in the Nordic and Baltic countries. 2009.	Lars Albinsson
Co-Design: An approach to border crossing, Network Innovation	Published in proceedings of eChallenges 2007, The Hague, The Netherlands	Lars Albinsson Mikael Lind Olov Forsgren
Experiences from setting up an Internet Shopping Collaboratory	Published in proceedings of eChallenges 2007, The Hague, The Netherlands	Olov Forsgren Anders Hultén Mikael Lind Nicklas Salomonson Malin Sundström
Integrated Development, Use and Learning in a Co-design Setting: Experiences from the Incremental Deployment of e-Me	Published in proceedings of eChallenges 2007, The Hague, The Netherlands	Mikael Lind Lars Albinsson Olov Forsgren Jonas Hedman
The e-Co Model - Citizens´ Driving E-service Quality	Paper presented 2007 at The 51st Annual Conference of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS), Tokyo, Japan	Mikael Lind Olov Forsgren Nicklas Salomonson Lars Albinsson
Service Quality in Business Processes: Let the customer´s voice be heard	Paper presented 2007 at 19th Nordic Academy of Management Conference, Bergen, Norway	Mikael Lind Nicklas Salomonson
Turning the internet around - e-Me: The Students ideal e-Service	Published in proceedings of eChallenges 2006, Barcelona, Spain	Lars Albinsson Mikael Lind Olov Forsgren Håkan Ozan
e-Me Stories & Scenarios - The Ideal Electronic Galaxy of the Student	Cartoons covering different use situation of e-Me, published 2006 at School of Business and Informatics, University College of Borås, Sweden	Lars Albinsson Olov Forsgren Mikael Lind
The Role of Virtual Servants in e-Interaction	Published 2006 in proceedings for the First International Pragmatic Web Conference (PragWeb06), Stuttgart, Germany	Mikael Lind Nicklas Salomonson
Students as e-Citizens - Deriving Future Needs of e-Services for Students	Published 2006 in proceedings for the International Workshop on E-Services in Public Administration (WESPA2006), Borås, Sweden	Staffan Lindell Mikael Lind Olov Forsgren
IT in Service Encounters - Studying Conversations to Determine IT-enabled Actions	Published 2006 in proceedings for the Intl Conf on Action in Language, Organisations and Information Systems (ALOIS), University College of Borås	Nicklas Salomonson Mikael Lind
Creating and Sustaining Successful Knowledge Management in Purposeful Communities - Summary of key experiences from pioneers	Research report on success factors for communities. The results of an international study using workshops and interviews. A Collaboration between University College of Borås, University of Southern California and Calistoga Springs RI. Funded by Microsoft.	Lars Albinsson Gregory Curtin (USC) Olov Forsgren Maria Wall (HB)
Using Cartoons to Engage Stakeholders in Innovation and Design of IT Artefacts	Presented at Wonderground 2006, The Design Research Society Conference, Lisbon.	Lars Albinsson
PUBLIC E-SERVICES - A Value Model & Trends Based on a Survey	VINNOVA Research Report (2006)	Lars Albinsson Olov Forsgren Mikael Lind Nicklas Salomonsson
The Electronic Asistant e-Me - An Important Element in a Design Language for Co-Design.	Published in the proccedings for Egov 2005, Denmark	Lars Albinsson Olov Forsgren
Co-Design Metaphors and Scenarios - Two Elements in a Design Language for Co-Design.	Published in the proceesings of LAP 2005, Sweden	Lars Albinsson Olov Forsgren
Using Dramatised Scenarios to Co-Design eGovernment Services.	Published in the proceedings of eChallenges 2005 in Ljublana, Slovenia	Lars Albinsson
Philosophy of Design or Design of Philosophy	Paper presented at the Center for European Philosophy of Art and Design, CEPHAD 2004 in Bornholm, Denmark	Lars Albinsson
Collaboration Networks in Governments	Paper presented at WORKSHOP ON PUBLIC SECTOR IN COMMON EUROPE - TRENDS AND FASHIONS, Lofoten, Norway, June 6-9, 2004.	Svein Arne Östevik Lars Albinsson
Who's at the wheel of user driven projects, when the user can't drive?	Presented at the Third International Conference on Systems Thinking in Management, University of Pennsylvania, may 2004	Lars Albinsson Olov Forsgren