Repair Symposium | 18-19 November 2021
Informatics Library | Gaustadalléen 23B, Oslo
The symposium offers free and full digital participation to the public.
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Join us at Fixing for Future – Nordic perspectives on product repair. This first Nordic repair symposium will take place at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, (UiO). Both a symposium and a transformative repair workshop, Fixing for Future explores the complexities surrounding product repair in a Nordic context. The symposium will be opened by Mette Halskov Hansen, UiO’s Vice-Rector for Climate & the Environment and Cross-Disciplinarity. The symposium is hosted by Jukka Mähönen and Beate Sjåfjell from the Dept. of Private Law and Maja van der Velden from the Dept. of Informatics, both UiO. The venue is provided by one of our project partners, the Science Library of the University of Oslo.
This hybrid digital-physical event is part of two interdisciplinary research projects implemented by the Department of Private Law and the Department of Informatics: Futuring Sustainable Nordic Business Models and Circular Energy for a Sustainable Circular Economy.
Thematically, the symposium is structured around four themes representing the four interacting modes regulating sustainable behaviour, together forming the regulatory ecology of repair.
- Social Norms and Practices: perspectives by repair practitioners and consumers
- Laws and Labels: existing and proposed policies and regulation in the Nordics and the EU
- Markets and Business Models: market and business models for repair.
- Design and Materials: design for sustainability and repairability
(presentations marked * are digital)
| Thursday, November 18 |
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| 09:30 - 09:40 | Opening of the symposium with Jukka Mähönen, project leader Futuring Nordics and Maja van der Velden, project leader Circular Energy |
| 09:40 – 09:45 | Welcome from Mette Halskov Hansen Vice-rector for Climate & the Environment and Cross-Disciplinarity of the University of Oslo |
| 09:45 - 10:15 | Keynote: Resilient repairing at the planetary scale* Sarah Cornell (Stockholm Resilience Centre) |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Short break |
| Session 1 | Social Norms and Repair Practices - Session chair: Maja van der Velden |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Experiences from white goods repair by professionals and laypeople Kirsi Laitala and Harald Throne-Holst (Sifo) |
| 10:50 - 11:05 | Consumer perspectives from Finland* Angelina Korsunova-Tsaruk (University of Helsinki) |
| 11:10 - 11:25 | Behavioural Insights into Personal Electronics Repair in Sweden Mariana Davila Lopez (Lund University) |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Community repair in Denmark* Christen Monberg (Repair Café Denmark) |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Break for Lunch |
| Session 2 | Laws and Labels - Session chair: Jukka Mähönen |
| 13:00 - 13:15 | Legal barriers, policy drivers and governance issues for repair Jessika Richter (Lund University) |
| 13:20 - 13:35 | Repair: an extended producer responsibility* Eléonore Maitre-Ekern (University of Oslo) |
| 13:40 - 13:55 | Repair policies: what can be done at the European, national and local levels? Carl Dalhammer (Lund University) |
| Session 3 | Markets and Business Models - Session chair: Jukka Mähönen |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Can designers design sustainable business models? Svein Gunnar Kjøde (University of Oslo) |
| 14:35 - 14:50 | Repair in a Nordic consumer electronics company Camilla Gramstad (Elkjøp) |
| 14:55 - 15:10 | Through handling, repair and refurbishment we do circular economy in practice* Andreas Anderholm Pedersen (GIAB Nordics) |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Bergans: Towards a more circular outdoors Yngvill Ofstad (Bergans) |
| Panel Discussion - Moderator: Svein Kjøde | |
| 15:45 - 16:30 | Repair and the transition to sustainable business models Panelists: Jessika Richter (Lund University), Camilla Gramstad (Elkjøp), Yngvill Ofstad (Bergans), Siv Elin Ånestad (Future in Our Hands), Svein Kjøde (University of Oslo) |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Reception |
| Friday, November 19 | |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Keynote: Repair Across the Multi-level Sustainability Innovation Framework* Ídil Gaziulusoy (Aalto University) |
| 10:00 - 16:00 | Transformative Repair workshop with Jürgen Breiter - Drop-in for some hands-on transformative repair and other repair activities. (3rd-floor Dept. of Informatics - follow the signs) |
| Session 4 | Design and Materials - Session chair: Maja van der Velden |
| 10:15 - 10:35 | Design for Repair / The Collection of Tomorrow Johannes Flem (Bergans) |
| 10:40 - 10:55 | Activating the full potential of the Ecodesign Directive to support repair– the role of market surveillance* Anja Marie Bundgaard (Aalborg University) |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Fixing While Fika: Design-Led Repair Projects from Sweden Nazli Terzioglu-Ozkan (Brunel University London, formerly Linköping University ) |
| 11:20 - 11:35 | Transformative repair Jürgen Breiter |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Closing Words Beate Sjåfjell and Maja van der Velden |