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Anneli Selvefors

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+46 73 356 09 84

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anneli.selvefors@ri.se

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Göteborg

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0000-0002-8794-6573

Anneli Selvefors is a senior researcher at RISE, specialising in exploring transdisciplinary approaches to design for sustainability. With a background in design research, she is particularly interested in design-based ways of exploring opportunities for a circular and sustainable future. She investigates how to design products, services and systems that enable people to meet their needs within the limits of the planet. Key research themes include designing for a sustainable everyday life, designing for circular consumption and production processes, and designing for circular business models.

As part of her work, she also explores how theory can be put into practice by looking at how businesses can be supported to adopt innovative ways of working. For example, Anneli has been involved in the development of several design methods and tools based on research findings, such as the Use2Use Design Toolkit and the Future Adaptive Design Toolkit.

Anneli has a MSc in Industrial Design Engineering and a PhD in Human-Technology-Design completed 2017 at the division Design & Human Factors at Chalmers University of Technology.

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Circular business development in practice

How to coach companies on circular design and business development? In this project, RISE coaches innovation coaches in Region Västra Götaland and contributes with coaching strategies and tools to strengthen the innovation power o…

Circular Co-Creation Games

Can games be used to co-create new circular business model ideas with customers? And for circular companies to find each other and start collaborating? That is what we are exploring in the project “Game-Based Approaches to Create …

Product-Services for Promoting Resource Efficiency and Sustainability

PROSPERITY generates knowledge on the interaction between business models patterns and user practices, and sustainability impacts. The project aims to benefit manufacturers from industries in the consumer sectors with high environ…

Future Adaptable Design Electrical Vehicle by Circular Business models, FAD-EV

The project aims to develop prototypes for profitable circular business models with associated design specifications for future-adapted heavy electric vehicles and electric cars for more electric vehicle miles.

Designing circular products and services customers want

Consumers have a key role to play in a circular economy. They can contribute to circular flows in a variety of ways, but it is important that the circular alternatives are easier to apply and more attractive than the linear. Compa…

Design methodolody for sustainability in everyday life

How can design create conditions for people to act sustainably in their daily lives and at work? Using design methodology inspired by psychology and sociology, we explore people's behaviours, everyday activities and social practic…

Design for circular use

A circular transition requires changes in user behaviours. But acting in a circular way is challenging; it can be more cumbersome, more time-consuming, and sometimes more expensive compared to the linear alternatives. We can help …

Design for sustainable living

Products, services, systems, and built environments can with a user-centered design approach be developed with the intention to support sustainable everyday behaviours, activities, and choices.

User-centred circular design

With user-centred circular design, products and services can be adapted so that users more easily can circulate resources in a circular economy.

Eco design

The environmental impact of a product is largely dependent on the early stages of product development, where design is decisive. Therefore, the use of eco design is of importance.

Circular Business Models

By basing business models and value propositions on a circular logic, companies can reduce their environmental impact while strengthening their business. Instead of producing material products with primary resources and offering t…

Future adaptive design for a circular ec

Future adaptive design can reduce business risks in circular business models through a product design for extended product life, through robustness, flexibility, and upgradeability

Behaviour and behaviour change

Why do we humans behave the way we do? How do we understand, are impacted by, and use technology, products and services? How can technology be a support to changing a behaviour? Parallel to developing new (technical) solutions, it…

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