Sustainable Design and Transition is internationally recognized for its transdisciplinary approach to studies of design, technology development, consumer and industrial practices, and the governance of sustainable transitions. Grounded in science and technology studies, the research group advances understandings of how complex social-technical systems evolve and generates new insights regarding the processes and practices working towards sustainable development entails.

The research group focuses on several topics within the field of Sustainable Design and Transition:

• Transition studies on how new actor constellations navigate in development processes related to change of distribution networks, climate adaption and urban infrastructure.
• Sustainable product, service and system design.
• Co-design processes and user participation in design and transitional processes related to e.g. welfare technologies.
• Public participation and empowerment: Interventions as research methodology.
• Public participation and staging of innovation and design processes within private and public cooperations.
• Sustainable production, distribution and consumption.
• Green macroeconomics and market foundations e.g. the field of energy systems.
• Innovative remaking of market for renewable energy.