What a waste – A norm-critical design study on how waste is understood and managed
Fagerholm, Anna Sara LU ; Haller, Henrik ; Warell, Anders LU and Hedvall, Per Olof LU
(2023)
In Resources, Conservation and Recycling Advances
19.
- Abstract
This article seeks to contribute new insights into inclusive recycling environments through universal design. The aim is to develop knowledge on how waste is understood and managed by exploring the practice and design of a recycling environment. Applying a norm-critical view, this is explored in a study with participants from a municipal housing company and waste management company in northern Sweden. Methods used are go-along interviews together with professionals and observations of a recycling environment. The results are discussed as: 1) the “(un)social norm;” where our results show that the waste system is perceived as a social system, contradicting previous approaches where waste systems are treated as technical environments. 2)... (More)
This article seeks to contribute new insights into inclusive recycling environments through universal design. The aim is to develop knowledge on how waste is understood and managed by exploring the practice and design of a recycling environment. Applying a norm-critical view, this is explored in a study with participants from a municipal housing company and waste management company in northern Sweden. Methods used are go-along interviews together with professionals and observations of a recycling environment. The results are discussed as: 1) the “(un)social norm;” where our results show that the waste system is perceived as a social system, contradicting previous approaches where waste systems are treated as technical environments. 2) the “(un)design factor;” where we identify how design in a recycling context that doesn´t emphasise diversity may affect activities of sorting.
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- author
- Fagerholm, Anna Sara
LU
; Haller, Henrik
; Warell, Anders
LU
and Hedvall, Per Olof
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2023-11
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Norm-critical design, Recycling, Universal design, Waste systems
- in
- Resources, Conservation and Recycling Advances
- volume
- 19
- article number
- 200178
- publisher
- Elsevier
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85169432716
- ISSN
- 2667-3789
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.rcradv.2023.200178
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- f038f420-56d8-4cb5-ac39-fb710b0f15cc
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