Research projects in Design
Current projects
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Intergenerational Participatory Approach Through Childhood and Its Reminiscence
This study investigates how participatory design and play are mobilized to cultivate intergenerational empathy and dialogue, with a particular focus on children’s present and future wellbeing.
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Tiny House 1.0
In the Tiny House 1.0 project, we explore innovative design of small houses (about 30 - 50 sqm) as an attractive, flexible and sustainable form of housing in northern Sweden.
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FOFOS - Graduate School for Renewing the Public Sector
Sweden's public sector is facing major societal challenges such as increasing inequality, climate crisis, weakened democratic participation and a growing need for new ways of organizing welfare. To strengthen the power of change and develop new ways of working, the national graduate school FOFOS - R...
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Build Equal
In the Design Group's part of the Build Equal project - run by Luleå University of Technology together with actors in the construction industry with the support of the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth and the regions of Norr- and Västerbotten 2025-2027 - we focus on how spaces and bui...
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The Green Travel Plan approach – designing for sustainable and behavioral travel habits
The Green Travel Plans approach is a pilot study project funded by Formas' Climate Neutral Cities with a focus on social sustainability 2024-2025 program where Luleå University of Technology together with Östersund Municipality explores how theories and methods of behavioral and service design can c...
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Recycling in public environment
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Close the Loop
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The Power of Recognition
The Power of Recognition is a 3-year artistic research project investigating how graphic culture shapes human perception and decisions. Surveying the boundary between familiarity and novelty, the project asks: what exactly is the power at play when we recognise something?
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Innovation, Gender and Sustainable Development: Follow-up of the conditions for teaching
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Arctic placemaking
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Re:Think Youth Lab - about Luleå 2040 and the green transition
Re:Think Youth Lab is a collaborative project that aims to strengthen the ability of Luleå municipality and other actors to navigate the green transition by engaging young people in speculative design processes.
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HeartSmart: Using design co-creation to develop healthier cities
A deeper understanding on how smart city design can lead to a healthier city, for its inhabitants, business owners, and visitors.
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GENGREEN – Supporting Nordic Female Entrepreneurs in Launching Green Business
GENGREEN is all about closing the Small-Business and Gender Gap through education for green sustainable and competitive growth. Its main objective is to support 50 female entrepreneurs spread across Southern and Central Ostrobothnia, Lapland, Norrbotten, Tromsø, and Finnmark to launch green business...
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Visual Design & Gender – norm-creative visual language
Liv-Jenny Sandberg, doctoral student in design, bases her research on the exploration of the visual language and how it communicates and shapes us in our daily lives. By applying norm-critical methods, design thinking processes and artistic research, she wants to explain, show and offer visual chang...
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Digital tools for gender equality and inclusion
In two studies, digital tools for gender equality and inclusion are studied, focusing on how they are designed, communicated and used in organizations and society. The reports are based on practical examples from Sweden, in the form of digital apps, tests, process support, training, etc.
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Situated synergies for co-design of attractive living environments
Minna Eronen, doctoral student in design, is interested in co-design of living environments. Especially, the dimensions and potential of the shared material and immaterial spaces where the various design professionals and the everyday people, the citizens can meet and create.
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Nordic Innovative Living
Nordic Innovative Living is a research project, during 2022–2024, that aims to create modern, attractive and smart homes that have every imaginable comfort without affecting the environment or the wallet in a negative way.
Completed projects
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Social innovation in the Swedish church
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Research anthology about social innovation
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Innovative inclusion in the non-profit sector
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Model showing the value of social innovations
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Future shaped innovation
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Innovation in civil society
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Gendered social innovation
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Social innovation in the European Social Fund
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Social innovation in Norrbotten
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Social innovation at a technologial university
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SICTA ahead: behavioural design in children's mobility environments
The project SICTA forward: behavioural design in children's mobility environments has aimed to explo...
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Solarscape
Suzanna Törnroth, PhD in Design, explores processes of worlding-with solar energy. Particularly, how...
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People-powered Transformation
People-powered Transformation is one of 23 preparatory projects from 98 applicants within Impact Inn...
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Bringing Actors Together: ICT and Disability
The project is a development of my licentiate thesis ”Bringing Actors Together - ICT, Disability and...
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From macho to modern: Gender equality in forestry workplaces
This project aims to find, test, and develop practical approaches to gender in forestry work organiz...
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Inclusive innovation in intersections
A practical guide for inclusive innovation processes – where intersections between different compete...
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Norm-creative design and social innovation in Experio WorkLab
In a research report, the Experio WorkLab project is discussed in the light of knowledge in norm-cre...
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NoBias - inclusive communication using AI
In the NoBias project, norms and prejudices around communication in technology-related industries an...
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The Raise – women’s initiatives for innovation systems
This project studies endeavours to promote women’s entrepreneurship and women’s organisation of inno...
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Diverse growth in industries
MångVäx is a project for gender equality and diversity in Norrbotten's industrial business life that...
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Inclusive growth in forestry
The project aimed to develop and exchange knowledge and practices for gender equality and diversity ...
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Develoop - gender equal businesses
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Young 2.0
Young 2.0 is a research study on young people's leisure habits and leisure needs with regard to incl...
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Accessibility design for urban development
Research shows that increased knowledge of norm criticism among those who work with urban planning a...
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Situated synergies for co-design of attractive living environments
Minna Eronen, doctoral student in design, is interested in co-design of living environments. Especia...
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Place-innovative tourism destinations
The project aimed to explore and develop place innovation as a theoretical and practical concept to ...
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Place-innovative city centres
The project “Attractive city center through place-innovative synergies” aimed to develop new knowled...
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A place to live – co-created, inclusive and attractive living environments
The project “People-Tools-Process-Place” develops knowledge and tools for accessible and attractive ...
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Attractive living-environments in the north
On behalf of Region Norrbotten, knowledge about attractive living environments in the north has been...
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People-powered Transformation
People-powered Transformation is one of 23 preparatory projects from 98 applicants within Impact Inn...
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Gender in ICT research organisations
The project “A gender perspective on ICT research organizations and processes of change" is studying...
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Gender and equality development in the Faste Laboratory
The project relates to gender and gender equality work in the Faste Laboratory - a VINNOVA Excellenc...
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Personalization of flexible driver information – EFESOS DRIVI
Technological advancements turns our cars more and more similar to our computers or smartphones that...
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Optimal Ergonomics for Cleaning Processes Methods and Cleaning Equipment
Cleaners have many work-related problems and declining occupational health, which leads to occupatio...
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Design expertise in product development – a study of small wood manufacturing companies
The need to increase profit is large in many small wood manufacturing companies throughout Sweden. T...
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The concept factory – visualisation as a method for designing workplaces
The difficulty of communicating and getting messages across is a problem in work environment managem...
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RenResources
Staff shortage is a bottleneck for local slaughterhouses and thus an obstacle for entrepreneurial id...
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Tacit – a research journey into the methods, processes and knowledge of graphic designers
Halldór Halldórsson, doctoral student in design, is producing Sweden's very first dissertation in gr...
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Ice safety in reindeer herding
The risks for Sami reindeer herders who use snow and ice tracks every day are increased by global wa...
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Design as a development force
Design as a development force is a national study on ways of thinking and working for society's tran...
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Attractive living-environments in the north
On behalf of Region Norrbotten, knowledge about attractive living environments in the north has been...
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A place to live – co-created, inclusive and attractive living environments
The project "People-Tools-Process-Place" develops knowledge and tools for accessible and attractive ...
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