Name:Aksel Biørn-Hansen

Bio:

Aksel is a designer and researcher, currently doing his PhD in Sustainable Human-Computer Interaction at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and a member of the Sustainable Futures Lab. He has an interdisciplinary background in Interaction Design, Sustainability as well as Environmental Psychology.

In his research, Aksel investigates ways to support climate action from the middle-out using design and participatory methodology. Aksels current research focus on the troubling of environmental data such as CO2 emissions from academic flying through low-tech materialisation and data physicalisation as a means to facilitate reflection, discussion and action towards a low-flying academia.

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Country:Sweden

Affiliation:KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Research interests:Design, low-carbon methods, climate justice, transformations, facilitation, teaching sustainability