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- Lövdahl, Josefin, et al.
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IMPLICATIONS OF EU INSTRUMENTS ON COMPANY CAPABILITIES TO DESIGN MORE SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS-PRODUCT ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT AND DIGITAL PRODUCT PASSPORT
- 2023
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the Design Society. - : Cambridges Institutes Press. ; 3, s. 2245-2254
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the EU, initiatives with concrete instruments for measuring and storing sustainability-related product data are now introduced in legislation. Based on literature review and semi-structured interviews, this study investigates two EU instruments, the Product Environmental Footprint method and Digital Product Passports, and their potential implications for company capabilities to design and select more sustainable solutions in a strategic way. The results show that these instruments can lead to increased transparency and traceability in the design and comparison of solutions, allowing for more effective collaboration across the value chain. By applying a strategic sustainability perspective, it was found that these EU instruments have major limitations as they lack a systems perspective, do not include a full socio-ecological sustainability perspective, and do not support strategic decision-making. This results in risks for suboptimization and the design of solutions that turn out to be costly dead-ends on the way towards a sustainable society. Research is therefore recommended to investigate how these instruments can facilitate a strategic development of sustainable solutions. © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press.
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- Corsini, Lucia, et al.
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Design with and by Marginalized People in Humanitarian Makerspaces
- 2022
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Ingår i: International Journal of Design. - : NATL TAIWAN UNIV SCI & TECHNOL. - 1991-3761 .- 1994-036X. ; 16:2, s. 91-105
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There is a growing demand for humanitarian aid around the world as the number of displaced people has reached an unprecedented level. At the same time, the number of community-based design and fabrication makerspaces has been growing exponentially. Recently the humanitarian sector has become interested in how these spaces can help marginalized populations, including migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. However, there have been few efforts to document what types of design projects marginalized populations develop in these spaces. More broadly, knowledge on design with and by marginalized people remains underdeveloped. This study responds to this gap in knowledge, by analyzing cases from three makerspaces that support migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in Greece. Ethnographic studies are conducted of twenty-three design projects emerging from these spaces. These projects are analyzed using the framework of Max-Neef’s fundamental needs to show how they simultaneously address functional and non-functional needs. For researchers, this study contributes to knowledge on design with and by marginalized people. For practitioners, this study helps to document the impact of humanitarian makerspaces by showing how design projects emerging from these spaces can address the needs of marginalized people. © 2022 Corsini, Jagtap, & Moultrie.
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- Petersen, Kai, et al.
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#Covid-19 : An exploratory investigation of hashtag usage on Twitter
- 2021
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Ingår i: Health Policy. - : Elsevier Ireland Ltd. - 0168-8510 .- 1872-6054. ; 125:4, s. 541-547
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: The literature highlights Twitter as a vital instrument tool for health policy-makers for health communication and promotion. Furthermore, Twitter is a tool allowing us to understand the focus of people regarding a topic of interest. Objective: To provide health policy-makers with insights concerning key topics of interest in the Twitter community regarding Covid-19, and to support information search and health communication. Method: A total of 28.5M tweets have been retrieved, of which 6.9M tweets included hashtags. The data was analyzed using data science and natural language processing libraries. Qualitative analysis was performed using thematic analysis. Results: 907k different hashtags were used. Of these, only 1192 hashtags were used more than 1000 times. The qualitative analysis resulted in 13 themes. The top three themes regarding the number of hashtags used were related to Covid-19, identifying information, interventions, and geographical tagging. We explored the relationship between themes and showed how health practitioners can understand the communication in relation to specific topics expressed as hashtags (e.g., #stayhome). Conclusions: The results provide first insights for policy-makers and health practitioners to identify relevant tweets and to choose appropriate hashtags for health communication. The results also show that only with a limited number of Tweets (10 per day) health organizations could have been among the top users. © 2021 Elsevier B.V.
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