The REFRAME Research group brings together the following members:
Charlotte Asbjørn Sörensen, Head of Media Unit
School of Arts and Communication (K3), Malmö University
Lecturer in Product Design, Techn.Lic. in Industrial Design.
Sörensen explores designers’ ability to act in uncertain contexts and understand the relationships between products, systems, bio-circular materials, modes of (regenerative) production, users, non-humans and situated ecological processes to enable informed design decisions and how these influence social, environmental, and economic factors. She is currently developing guiding principles for regenerative product design and bio-circular materials.
Contact: charlotte.sorensen@mau.se
Anne-Marie Hansen, Senior lecturer in Interaction design
School of Arts and Communication (K3), Malmö University
Hansen works with regenerative and relational design, striving to create the conditions for nature to thrive again, and for humans to thrive together with nature as a keystone species. Through relational design, she aims to create the conditions for regenerative design by working with the relations between people, and people and nature. As an interaction designer, she focuses on working with creating relations so that we can live in regenerative ways in our relations with web-of-life: the food webs that we are part of, and totally dependent upon. She abandons dualist thinking and separation ideologies that, unfortunately, are still common in the modern Western world.
Contact: anne-marie.hansen@mau.se
Mia Münster, Senior lecturer within the arts
School of Arts and Communication (K3), Malmö University
Master of Design in Design and Architecture, PhD from the Department of Marketing at Copenhagen Business School. Münster has more than 20 years of professional experience in retail and hospitality design, interior design, and product design. As a design practitioner, she has developed interior design concepts for several international brands. She holds a and has teaching and research experience from her years as a Postdoc and a Research Assistant Professor at the School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. As a researcher, she is particularly interested in optimising design processes, understanding consumer perceptions of commercial spaces, and exploring the social and environmental impact of third places.
Contact: mia.munster@mau.se
Elisabet M. Nilsson
School of Arts and Communication (K3), Malmö University
Associate professor in Interaction design, PhD in Educational Sciences. Through participatory action research, Nilsson explores conditions for human and more-than-human inclusion and participation in design, and how such approaches can translate into real-world impact. She is also engaged in educational design research and the development of Open Educational Resources (OER), with a current focus on how more-than-human design and reflective sustainable data practices could be taught and integrated into future design education curricula.
Contact: elisabet.nilsson@mau.se
