Design for sustainability - Department of design
Strategic area: Design for sustainability
The strategic area Design for Sustainability addresses relations between people, nature, technologies, and material environments, and changes in these relations. The research activity contributes to main streams of research that include:
- Design and changes in behaviours and practices
- Socio-cultural sustainability and social design and innovation
- Design for sustainability transitions
About the strategic area Design for Sustainability
The strategic area Design for Sustainability generates knowledge by drawing on theories and methods from design and other fields, including co-creative, practice-based, and experimental approaches.
It does that for topics and application areas such as energy and materials, food and food waste, circular economy, design for sustainability implementation, emotions, narratives, ethical issues, citizen engagement, futures, and (urban) nature.
The area consists of researchers with backgrounds ranging from design to the humanities and social sciences. It engages in inter- and transdisciplinary research, and collaborates actively with other NTNU faculties, national and international research institutions, as well as with industry, the public sector, NGOs, and civil society, in Norway and abroad.
Its track record includes NFR- and EU-funded projects, as well as projects funded by Diku and Norad. The group is responsible for dedicated design for sustainability courses at the bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD level, and supervises a range of specialization and master’s projects connected to ongoing research.
Current projects
ClimaGen
Climate-resilient reGeneration and renaturing for, by and with vulnerable neighbourhoods, striving towards net-zero
NOTRAP
VISTA Center for Norwegian Transformative Energy Policy Development
HolE-LIB
Developing a Holistic Ecosystem for Sustainable Repurposing and/or Recycling of Lithium-ion Batteries (LIBs) in Norway and EU.
Narrating Sustainability
How sustainability is narrated, contested, understood, and reimagined in literary studies, environmental psychology research, and design.
Rewilding campus - Det grønne Gløs
Connecting people to nature in an urban environment.
SAMAJ
Transdisciplinary Education for a Sustainable Society.
Completed projects
The Medical Home | MINDER | MSESSD | 3C // Co-constructing city futures | CapSEM | Circ€uit | Hug the Streets | ENTOWASTE | TRANS-URBAN-EU-CHINA | SCORE
Members
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Casper Boks Professor
+47-73590102 casper.boks@ntnu.no Department of Design -
Saara-Maria Kauppi PhD student
+4793049548 saara.m.kauppi@ntnu.no -
Martina Maria Keitsch Professor
+47-73590119 martina.keitsch@ntnu.no Department of Design -
Leander Spyridon Pantelatos PhD Candidate
leander.s.pantelatos@ntnu.no Department of Design -
Berilsu Tarcan PhD student
berilsu.tarcan@ntnu.no -
June Kyong Trondsen PhD Candidate
+4746299587 june.k.trondsen@ntnu.no Department of Design -
Maria Andrea Valladares Noguera PhD Candidate
andrea.valladares@ntnu.no Department of Design
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PhD projects
- Saara-Maria Kauppi: Edible insects as novel food.
- Manisha Rayaprolu: Participatory design processes and renewable energy practices.
- Berilsu Tarcan: Exploring the Transformation of Making practices in Culture: Felting as a More-than-Human Design Activity.
- June Kyong Trondsen: Awkwardness, Embarrassment, Guilt & Shame: Exploring narratives about A/E/G/S and their role in design interventions.
- Leander Spyridon Pantelatos: Design for Sustainability - user acceptance of repurposed LIBs.
- Andrea Valladares: Exploring the role of visualization and conversational objects in participatory design for sustainability transitions.
Read more about current and completed PhD projects
Master's degree projects
2024
- Rebecca Jahns: En tjenestedesigntilnærming for å engasjere unge i håndverk og husflid for bærekraftig forbruk
- Tuva Kongshavn: Design for byduer med fokus på tilrettelegging og sameksistens
2023
- Erle Drejer og Nora Kastellet: Designing for Sustainable Rural Tourism in Lower Mustang, Nepal
- Selma Øfsthus Gravir: En utforskning av hvordan designintervensjoner kan bedre pårørenderollen ved spiseforstyrrelser.
- Jenny Marie Jacobsen: Reuse of textile waste | Kathmandu Valley
- Andres Felipe Jaime Jaimes: A speculative perspective in the future of second-life electric vehicle batteries alternatives
- Magnus Mo: Utilizing digital storytelling to promote sustainable tourism in Lower Mustang
- Vilde Egeberg Moger: Designing for urban coexistence: How increased biodiversity in parks can engage humans
- Katja Seifert: Solid Waste Management in rural areas in Nepal
- Rikke Skindlo: Designutdanning og normativ kompetanse
2022
- Ella Swan: Futures beyond economic growth. Supporting speculation, imagination and transition through design.
- Jacob Bierman Jørgensen: "Jeg vet ikke om jeg vil ha barn". Design for barnfrihet; et sensitivt tema.
- Kristin Håberg and Mari Solem Talmoen: Økonomisk skam og design.
- Lili Lin Nguyen and Markus Leander Vågran: Skam og menns helse fra et designperspektiv.
- Miriam Hjertholm: Alternativ bruk av underutnyttede steder til bruk for sosiale og bærekraftige mataktiviteter.
- Muthita Torteeka: Integrating waste reduction features into the online food delivery service interfaces: A case study of Thailand.
Courses that we teach
TPD4210 Sustainability Transitions
TPD4505 Design Teory, specialization course
TPD4852 Experts in teamwork - Urban natures of the future
PD8300 - Topics in design research
PD8301 Design for Sustainability - Individual PhD course
Courses where we supervise
TPD4500 Design 9, specialization project