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Newsletter 2022/01

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The first six months of the project have passed and we are well underway. The workshop in April with our partners in business and other organizations yielded a lot of interesting discussions and gave our researchers much to work with in preparing for and conducting the research activities that are going on this year. Thanks to the inclusion of the experimental method “A day with plastics” in our workshop, our researchers working on WP2 Plastic Practices, got a lot of valuable feedback and insights.

People

Atle Wehn Hegnes joins REDUCE

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We are happy to welcome our new colleague at SIFO, Atle Wehn Hegnes, to the REDUCE research team. Atle will be filling in for Nina as WP2 leader while she is on parental leave from August 2022. He is a sociologist leaving his position as researcher at NIBIO to return to his previous place of work at SIFO.

Events

REDUCE at EU Design Days

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REDUCE was presented to an international audience at the EU Design Days in Brussels June 10th by head of studies Julia Jacoby. The event is an initiative of the ERRIN Design & Creativity Working Group, which aims at promoting design and creativity as tools for innovation. Project leader Marie Hebrok was there as part of a group from the Department of Product Design and the Section for Research and Development at OsloMet.

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We welcome PhD Research Fellow Ayse Kaplan

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We are happy to welcome Ayse Kaplan to our team as a PhD Research Fellow. Ayse is arriving from Ankara in August, and will work on WP3 – taking a systemic design approach to the reduction of plastics consumption. She will be employed at the Department for Product Design at OsloMet, but also spend some time at Consumption Research Norway.

Events, Workshop

We need to talk about plastics

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At Kulturhuset in Oslo on April 21st , we met to talk about plastics. What do we surround ourselves with every day, which is not packaging, but still made of plastic? What role do these products play in our lives? What is visible and invisible plastic? Where does plastic make sense and where is it superfluous? What political processes and ways of talking about plastic affect consumption? And how would we do without plastic? These questions are at the heart of our research project REDUCE.

Events

REDUCE kick-off meeting

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The REDUCE consortium gathered for the first time on Zoom on the 11th of February 2022. We had an inspiring day of listening to and discussing each others perspectives and experiences, and are looking forward to embarking on the numerous tasks of REDUCE.

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