Projects

Here you can find all projects. We have ongoing and previous projects, as well as PhD and summer projects.

Ongoing projects

  • Mapping Resistance to the Twin Transition in Norway

    The term Twin Transition refers to the transition to a digital, non-fossil-fuel economy. Technology plays a central role in the transition to this new economy. Wind and solar energy projects are being established all over Norway. Data centre projects are booming to process and store the data needed for the digitalisation of services and industry. Mines are (re-) opened to produce the minerals for the twin transition.

  • Sustainable batteries in Mobility

    EMPOWER (Sustainable Batteries in Mobility - (Em)powering a Net-zero Energy Transition) is an interdisciplinary project with a strong educational component funded by UiO: Energy. The key objective of EMPOWER is to develop an encompassing long-term strategy for sustainable electric vehicle (EV) batteries in Norway.

  • The Materials Library of Stones

    The Materials Library of Stones project is a mobile collection of minerals found in key technologies for the so-called Twin Transition: smartphones, laptops, data centres, sensors, wind turbines, solar panels, and batteries. 

PhD and Post-doc projects

Summer projects

  • Mapping the twin transition

    Summer of 2022: Mapping the twin transition was a small research project implemented during the summer of 2022. Master students designed and developed an interactive online map that visualises existing, planned, and proposed electrification and digitalisation projects in Norway. Mapping these projects will visualise the geographical clustering of projects as well as their environmental impacts in a municipality or region.

  • Repair & Conserve

    Summer of 2021: Repair & Conserve was a small research project implemented during the summer of 2021. Three master students and their three supervisor-collaborators jumped on their bikes and criss-crossed Oslo, looking for small independent electronics repair shops. The ongoing corona situation didn't make things always easy, but the three students were able to implement 27 interviews with different repair shops.

Previous projects

  • Circular Energy

    Circular Energy for a Sustainable Circular Economy is a thematic research group (2021 - 2023) funded by UiO:Energy & Environment. It aims to contribute new knowledge about environmental and legal aspects of sustainable energy solutions in relation to the expanding role of digital products and services in our economy.

  • Conserve & consume

    Our objective was to design sustainable consumption services in ways that fulfil the desires of the great majority of consumers by the help of technology, mobile/handheld devices and social media.

  • Digital manual for Precious Plastic project

    This is the resource site for the Sustainability Lab's Precious Plastic project and local-circularity enhancing collaboration, i.e., our digital manual.

  • Futuring Sustainable Nordic Business Models

    Futuring Sustainable Nordic Business Models, Futuring Nordics for short, is a thematic research group financed by UiO:Norden. The group consists of researchers from the Department of Private Law (IPL) and the Department of Informatics (IFI) at the University of Oslo.

  • Making futures

    This internally funded Ph.D. within the Sustainability and Design group will consider sustainable forms of production of digital products that contribute to the resilience of communities. This is a Research Through Design project that will utilise a Transition Design framework to design and manufacture a limited number of products to act as examples of leveraging more sustainable practices.

  • Precious Plastic

    The Sustainability Lab joined the Precious Plastic Universe (youtube video), the worldwide movement of plastic recyclers, re-shapers, and re-users in 2021. More information about Precious Plastic can be found on their website.

  • Smart

    In SMART we studied what prevents and promotes sustainability, defined as securing the social foundation for humanity everywhere, now and in the future, within planetary boundaries.

  • Sustainable AI

    This is an interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers from three research departments of the University of Oslo and investigates how AI is implemented in the public sector, how this shapes public sector processes and services, and how they are experienced by the general public.