CCBB: Lennart Bjorneborn How To Increase Serendipity

Lennart Björneborn works as an Associate Professor at the
Department of Information Studies, University of Copenhagen. He is
especially interested in what design dimensions in physical and
digital spaces may enable and support serendipitous encounters. His
PhD thesis (2004) dealt with “small-world” web structures that
create short link distances between very different topics on the
web, thus facilitating serendipitous encounters when people follow
web links. Later on, he has studied serendipity dimensions in the
design of physical public libraries (2008), as well as
“micro-serendipity” as meaningful coincidences in everyday life
shared on Twitter (2013). Recently, he has published a conceptual
framework on “Three key affordances for serendipity” (2017)
connecting environmental and personal factors in serendipitous
encounters. In a new research project, focus is on researchers and
how their research interests emerge, develop, and change over time,
and how this is affected by serendipitous encounters with people,
objects, information, etc., that are "adjacent possible" in
different physical and digital environments used by the
researchers. An important outcome of the new research project will
be a better understanding of how we can design innovative
information environments so they function as “possibility spaces”
that can support researchers - and hopefully, other people as well
- in experiencing and exploring “the adjacent possible”,
serendipity, and interest development.

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