David Hilmer Rex

Researcher and organizer with an interest in Metascience, Decentralized Science, Systems Change and Mission-oriented Innovation.

Currently, my PostDoc, Ecosystem for Imagination, Learning and Mission-oriented Innovation, explores the existing and speculates on the future capacity for systems change and innovation in Denmark. I work across Danish Design Center, Human Centred Science and Digital Technology at The Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University, the System Innovation Initiative and Diakron. Funded by The New Carlsberg Foundation.

Board member at Art Hub Copenhagen.

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Publications

De udfordrer diskussionen om den slagne idékraft: Mangler fokus på initiativretten i dansk forskning with Thomas Trøst Hansen. October 9, 2024. (In Danish).

Metascience: Behov for udvikling af økosystemet for forskning og teknologiudvikling with Peter Bentsen. March 15, 2024. (In Danish).

Mission-Oriented Innovation in Prevention and Population-Based Healthcare. Interview with with Peter Bentsen. April 11, 2024.

What Can the Arts Sector Learn from Structural Diversification of Science and Technology Development? A Conversation with Adam Marblestone with Aslak Aamot Helm. In Between the Material and the Possible. Infrastructural Re-examination and Speculation in Art. Edited by Bassam El Baroni. Sternberg Press. August 23, 2022.

UKK: En udviklingsorienteret kulturpolitik kræver risikovillige fonde. With UKK. May 5, 2022. (In Danish).

Artistic Practice and Systems Change: A Mission-oriented Sector of Art. PhD Dissertation. October 7, 2022.

Systems Effects and Learning Processes. With Aslak Aamot Helm. April 16, 2019.

Hybride Organisationer og Nye Fællesskaber. With Aslak Aamot Helm and Jesper Ole Jensen. 2017. (In Danish).