Casper Boks

About

Current (2022)

After having focused on various other topics within Design for Sustainability, and having had a long stint as Head of Department, and thereafter Vice Dean for Research and Innovation, I am currently mostly interested in societal narratives about different aspects of sustainability. It is fascinating to discover how they affect our behaviour and make (or prevent) that we behave sustainably, socially and healthy.

My current projects include:

Design and Shame (a project with PhD student June Kyong Trondsen). This is an explorative project which intends to understand the role of shame, awkwardness, embarrassment and other negative self-conscious emotions in people’s daily lives, and how this understanding can contribute to more environmentally friendly, social and healthy behaviour
Narrating Sustainability (https://narratingsustainability.wordpress.com/). This is a cross-faculty NTNU internally funded project together with colleagues from the Department of Language and Literature and Department of Psychology.
HolE-LIB – Developing a Holistic Ecosystem for Sustainable Repurposing and/or Recycling of Lithium-ion Batteries (LIBs) in Norway and EU. https://www.ntnu.no/sustainability/calls/repurposing-recycling-batteries-by-holelib. This is another cross-faculty NTNU internally funded project, where we focus on consumer and market research to understand customer acceptance of repurposed end-of-life batteries in various household/home/cabin application contexts.
SCORE: Supporting Circular ecOnomy thRough Education. This is an ERAMUS+ project in which we will develop learning materials and platforms to promote circular economy education focusing on the 15-19 age group in order to incite sustainable behaviour changes.

Background and past PhD projects

With a master’s degree in Applied Econometrics from Erasmus University Rotterdam, and a PhD degree in Industrial Design Engineering from Delft University of Technology, I worked as an assistant professor in the Design for Sustainability Program at the Industrial Design Engineering School, TU Delft, the Netherlands, until 2006. In 2004, I was a visiting professor at the International Institute of Industrial Environmental Economics at Lund University, Sweden.

In these years, my research interests included the organisational and managerial aspects of successful implementation of sustainable product innovation in the electronics industry, as well as sustainable product innovation research and education. Before that I belonged to the first wave of ecodesign researchers that focused on end-of-life issues for electronics.

As of January 2007, I am professor in Design for Sustainability at NTNU’s Department of Design. My research interests broadened and more specifically started to include the use phase. The research in my group has since then mostly focused on Design for Sustainable Behaviour and Practices, by trying to understand how designers and firms can be facilitated in exploiting opportunities, both environmental and commercial, that may exist in designing products and contexts that make users use products in a sustainable way (or avoid that they use them in an unsustainable way). My PhD students and I aimed to integrate insights from interaction design, science and technology studies, stakeholder analysis and environmental psychology in developing research protocols to collect empirical information on users' behaviour, attitudes, habits, beliefs, as well situational contexts, and to carry out practical experiments and develop design concepts. Case studies, both descriptive and explorative, have been done with firms including Philips, Jøtul, Electrolux and Glen Dimplex Nordic.

Several PhD students work/have worked on this: Ida Nilstad Pettersen (defended in 2013), Johannes Zachrisson Daae and Kirsi Laitala (both defended in 2014), Marie Hebrok and Sofie Østergaard (both defended in 2019).

However, I did not abandon my original research interests in the managerial aspects of ecodesign implementation. I co-supervised two PhD students in this field (Elli Verhulst and Silje Aschehoug, both defended in 2012). Elli researched how addressing human factors such as resistance and empowerment facilitate or complicate a sustainable design implementation process based on case studies in eight firms. Silje researched the availability, relevance and accessibility of information sources, which are relevant to sustainable design and manufacturing. Her work was based on case studies in the Norwegian automotive and furniture industry.

From 2015 jointly supervised two PhD students together with Dr. Niki Bey (Technical University of Denmark) as part of a cotutelle agreement. Faheem Ali and Raphaëlle Stewart both defended their dissertations in 2019), after successfully researching various themes related to implementation of design for sustainability and sustainable business modelling. As a result, they both received a double degree from NTNU and DTU.

From 2017 I participated in the Horizon2020 EU Marie Curie ITN CIRCUIT, a training network of 15 PhD students across 7 universities in the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, France and the UK, aimed at designing circular economy-based product-service systems. In this project, we were responsible for the end-use perspective, focusing on user understanding and how to use this in CE based PSS development, as well as how to communicate this back to user. Juana Camacho-Otero and Lucy Chamberlin defended their dissertations in 2020 and 2021, respectively.

In April 2017, PhD student Saara-Maria Kauppi started her doctoral research as part of an ERANET-LCA cofunding project, focusing on designing food products based on insects and insect-protein, based on true understanding of user perspectives.

In the past I have also supervised Bijan Aryana (defended in 2013), his research explored design for country-specific customisation of smart phones, in collaboration with LG Electronics.

In my Delft years I have also co-supervised PhD research on topics such as ecodesign management, probing and learning in the fuel cell industry, and sustainable packaging design.

I am also affiliated to NTNU's Industrial Ecology program; In the academic year 2008/2009 I acted as interim director for this multidisciplinary international master, PhD and research program.

From 2013-2017, I was Head of Department for the Department of Design. From 2017-2021, I contribute to the Faculty of Architecture and design as Vice-Dean for Research and Innovation.

Publications

2021

Bakker, Conny; Mugge, Ruth; Boks, Casper; Oguchi, Masahiro. (2021) Understanding and managing product lifetimes in support of a circular economy. Journal of Cleaner Production. volum 279.
Academic article

2020

Camacho-Otero, Juana; Pettersen, Ida Nilstad; Boks, Casper. (2020) Consumer engagement in the circular economy: Exploring clothes swapping in emerging economies from a social practice perspective. Sustainable Development. volum 28 (1).
Academic article
Camacho-Otero, Juana; Tunn, Vivian; Chamberlin, Lucy Clementine Joyce; Boks, Casper. (2020) Consumers in the circular economy. Handbook of the Circular Economy.
Academic chapter/article

2019

Ali, Faheem; Stewart, Raphaëlle; Boks, Casper; Bey, Niki. (2019) Exploring “Company Personas” for Informing Design for Sustainability Implementation in Companies. Sustainability. volum 11 (2).
Academic article
Camacho-Otero, Juana; Boks, Casper; Pettersen, Ida Nilstad. (2019) User acceptance and adoption of circular offerings in the fashion sector: insights from user-generated online reviews. Journal of Cleaner Production. volum 231.
Academic article
Kauppi, Saara-Maria; Pettersen, Ida Nilstad; Boks, Casper. (2019) Consumer acceptance of edible insects and design interventions as adoption strategy. International Journal of Food Design. volum 4 (1).
Academic article

2018

Boks, Casper. (2018) An Introduction to Design for Sustainable Behaviour. Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Design.
Academic chapter/article
Camacho-Otero, Juana; Boks, Casper; Pettersen, Ida Nilstad. (2018) Consumption in the Circular Economy: A Literature Review. Sustainability. volum 10 (8).
Academic article
Chamberlin, Lucy; Boks, Casper. (2018) Marketing Approaches for a Circular Economy: Using Design Frameworks to Interpret Online Communications. Sustainability. volum 10 (6).
Academic article
Daae, Johannes; Boks, Casper. (2018) Tweaking interaction through understanding the user. Design for Behaviour Change: Theories and Practices of Designing for Change.
Academic chapter/article
Daae, Johannes; Chamberlin, Lucy; Boks, Casper. (2018) Dimensions of behaviour change in the context of designing for a circular economy. The Design Journal. volum 21 (4).
Academic article
Stewart, Raphaëlle Marie; Ali, Faheem; Boks, Casper; Bey, Niki. (2018) Architect, Catalyst, Advocate, and Prophet: A Four-Lens View of Companies to Support Ecodesign Integration. Sustainability. volum 10 (10).
Academic article
Valle Kinloch, Cristian Roberto; Boks, Casper; Berker, Thomas. (2018) Occupant engagement in the office environment: role assumptions about the building manager. Facilities. volum 36 (11/12).
Academic article

2017

Boks, Casper; Daae, Johannes. (2017) Design for sustainable use using principles of behaviour change. Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Product Design.
Academic chapter/article
Hebrok, Marie; Boks, Casparus Burghardus. (2017) Household food waste: Drivers and potential intervention points for design – An extensive review. Journal of Cleaner Production. volum 151.
Scientific translation/review

2016

Ali, Faheem; Boks, Casparus Burghardus; Bey, Niki. (2016) Design for Sustainability and Project Management Literature–A Review. Procedia CIRP. volum 48.
Academic article
Boks, Casparus Burghardus; Sigurjónsson, Jóhannes B.; Steinert, Martin; Vis, Anne Carlijn; Wulvik, Andreas. (2016) Proceedings of NordDesign 2016. The Design Society. 2016. ISBN 978-1-904670-80-3.
Scientific anthology
Stewart, Raphaëlle Marie; Bey, Niki; Boks, Casparus Burghardus. (2016) Exploration of the Barriers to Implementing Different Types of Sustainability Approaches. Procedia CIRP. volum 48.
Academic article
Zachrisson, Johannes Ludvig Daae; Goile, Franziska; Seljeskog, Morten; Boks, Casparus Burghardus. (2016) Burning for sustainable behaviour. Journal of Design Research. volum 14 (1).
Academic article

2011

Laitala, Kirsi Maria; Boks, Casper; Klepp, Ingun Grimstad. (2011) Potential for environmental improvements in laundering. International Journal of Consumer Studies. volum 35 (2).
Academic article

2010

Boks, Casper; McMahon, Chris; Ion, William; Parkinson, Brian. (2010) When Design Education and Design Research meet... Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, NTNU 2-3 September 2010. The Design Society. 2010. ISBN 978-1-904670-19-3.
Scientific anthology
Wever, Renee; van Onselen, Lenny; Silvester, Sacha; Boks, Casper. (2010) Influence of Packaging Design on Littering and Waste Behaviour. Packaging technology & science. volum 23 (5).
Academic article

2009

Boks, Casper; McAloone, Tim. (2009) Transitions in Sustainable Product Design Research. International Journal of Product Development. volum 9 (4).
Academic article
Liem, Andre; Boks, Casper; Green, Lance; Keitsch, Martina; Yen, Ching Chiuan. (2009) Editorial. International Journal of Product Development. volum 9 (4).
Editorial

2008

Boks, Casper. (2008) New academic research topics to further ecodesign implementation: an overview. International Journal of Product Development. volum 6 (3/4).
Academic article
Pettersen, Ida Nilstad; Boks, Casper. (2008) The Ethics in Balancing Control and Freedom when Engineering Solutions for Sustainable Behaviour. International Journal of Sustainable Engineering. volum 1 (4).
Academic article
Wever, Renee; van Kuijk, Jasper; Boks, Casper. (2008) User-centred design for sustainable behaviour. International Journal of Sustainable Engineering. volum 1 (1).
Academic article

2007

Boks, Casparus; Stevels, A.. (2007) Essential Perspectives for Design for Environment, Experiences from the Electronics Industry. International Journal of Production Research. volum 45 (18&19).
Academic article
Wever, Renee; Boks, Casparus; Marinelli, Thomas; Stevels, A.. (2007) Increasing the benefits of product-level benchmarking for strategic eco-efficient decision-making. Benchmarking : An International Journal. volum 14 (6).
Academic article

Scientific articles

Bakker, Conny; Mugge, Ruth; Boks, Casper; Oguchi, Masahiro. (2021) Understanding and managing product lifetimes in support of a circular economy. Journal of Cleaner Production. volum 279.
Academic article
Camacho-Otero, Juana; Pettersen, Ida Nilstad; Boks, Casper. (2020) Consumer engagement in the circular economy: Exploring clothes swapping in emerging economies from a social practice perspective. Sustainable Development. volum 28 (1).
Academic article
Ali, Faheem; Stewart, Raphaëlle; Boks, Casper; Bey, Niki. (2019) Exploring “Company Personas” for Informing Design for Sustainability Implementation in Companies. Sustainability. volum 11 (2).
Academic article
Camacho-Otero, Juana; Boks, Casper; Pettersen, Ida Nilstad. (2019) User acceptance and adoption of circular offerings in the fashion sector: insights from user-generated online reviews. Journal of Cleaner Production. volum 231.
Academic article
Kauppi, Saara-Maria; Pettersen, Ida Nilstad; Boks, Casper. (2019) Consumer acceptance of edible insects and design interventions as adoption strategy. International Journal of Food Design. volum 4 (1).
Academic article
Camacho-Otero, Juana; Boks, Casper; Pettersen, Ida Nilstad. (2018) Consumption in the Circular Economy: A Literature Review. Sustainability. volum 10 (8).
Academic article
Chamberlin, Lucy; Boks, Casper. (2018) Marketing Approaches for a Circular Economy: Using Design Frameworks to Interpret Online Communications. Sustainability. volum 10 (6).
Academic article
Daae, Johannes; Chamberlin, Lucy; Boks, Casper. (2018) Dimensions of behaviour change in the context of designing for a circular economy. The Design Journal. volum 21 (4).
Academic article
Stewart, Raphaëlle Marie; Ali, Faheem; Boks, Casper; Bey, Niki. (2018) Architect, Catalyst, Advocate, and Prophet: A Four-Lens View of Companies to Support Ecodesign Integration. Sustainability. volum 10 (10).
Academic article
Valle Kinloch, Cristian Roberto; Boks, Casper; Berker, Thomas. (2018) Occupant engagement in the office environment: role assumptions about the building manager. Facilities. volum 36 (11/12).
Academic article
Ali, Faheem; Boks, Casparus Burghardus; Bey, Niki. (2016) Design for Sustainability and Project Management Literature–A Review. Procedia CIRP. volum 48.
Academic article
Stewart, Raphaëlle Marie; Bey, Niki; Boks, Casparus Burghardus. (2016) Exploration of the Barriers to Implementing Different Types of Sustainability Approaches. Procedia CIRP. volum 48.
Academic article
Zachrisson, Johannes Ludvig Daae; Goile, Franziska; Seljeskog, Morten; Boks, Casparus Burghardus. (2016) Burning for sustainable behaviour. Journal of Design Research. volum 14 (1).
Academic article
Aryana, Bijan; Clemmensen, Torkil; Boks, Casper. (2015) Users’ participation in requirements gathering for smart phones applications in emerging markets. Universal Access in the Information Society. volum 14 (2).
Academic article
Blok, Vincent; Long, Thomas; Gaziulusoy, A. Idil; Ciliz, Nilgun; Lozano, Rodrigo; Huisingh, Donald; Csutora, Maria; Boks, Casper. (2015) From best practices to bridges for a more sustainable future: advances and challenges in the transition to global sustainable production and consumption: Introduction to the ERSCP stream of the Special volume. Journal of Cleaner Production. volum 108 (Part A).
Academic article
Daae, Johannes; Boks, Casparus Burghardus; Goile, Franziska; Seljeskog, Morten. (2015) Firing up sustainable behaviour. Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design. volum 1 (80-01).
Academic article
Laitala, Kirsi Maria; Boks, Casper; Klepp, Ingun Grimstad. (2015) Making Clothing Last: A Design Approach for Reducing the Environmental Impacts. International Journal of Design. volum 9 (2).
Academic article
Zachrisson, Johannes Ludvig Daae; Boks, Casper. (2015) A classification of user research methods for design for sustainable behaviour. Journal of Cleaner Production. volum 106.
Academic article
Zachrisson, Johannes Ludvig Daae; Boks, Casper. (2015) Opportunities and challenges for addressing variations in the use phase with LCA and Design for Sustainable Behaviour. International Journal of Sustainable Engineering. volum 8 (3).
Academic article
Verhulst, Elli; Boks, Casper. (2014) Employee Empowerment for Sustainable Design. Journal of Corporate Citizenship.
Academic article
Kjøllesdal, Anders; Asheim, Jonas; Boks, Casper. (2014) Embracing Social Sustainability in Design Education: A Reflection on a Case Study in Haiti. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research. volum 58 (2).
Academic article
Sorgendal, Ingrid Kvam; Boks, Casper. (2014) Challenging interfaces are more fun! Operant conditioning for the interaction designer. International Journal of Learning Technology. volum 9 (2).
Academic article
Zachrisson, Johannes Ludvig Daae; Boks, Casper. (2014) Dimensions of behaviour change. Journal of Design Research. volum 12 (3).
Academic article
Aschehoug, Silje Helene; Boks, Casper. (2013) Towards a framework for sustainability information in product development. International Journal of Sustainable Engineering. volum 6 (2).
Academic article
Aschehoug, Silje Helene; Boks, Casper; Aasland, Knut Einar. (2013) Building sustainability knowledge for product development and design - Experiences from four manufacturing firms. Progress in Industrial Ecology, An International Journal. volum 8 (1/2).
Academic article
Pettersen, Ida Nilstad; Boks, Casper; Tukker, Arnold. (2013) Framing the role of design in transformation of consumption practices: beyond the designer-product-user triad. International Journal of Technology Management. volum 63 (1/2).
Academic article
Verhulst, Elli; Boks, Casper. (2012) Bringing about Sustainable Change in Product Development: Theory versus Practice. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. volum 384.
Academic article
Verhulst, Elli; Boks, Casper. (2012) The role of human factors in the adoption of sustainable design criteria in business: evidence from Belgian and Dutch case studies. International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development. volum 6 (2).
Academic article
Aryana, Bijan; Boks, Casper. (2012) Country specific customisation of smart phones for emerging markets: insights from case studies in Iran and Turkey. International Journal of Logistics Economics and Globalisation. volum 4 (3).
Academic article
Aryana, Bijan; Boks, Casper. (2012) New Product Development and consumer culture: a review. International Journal of Product Development. volum 16 (1).
Academic article
Aschehoug, Silje Helene; Boks, Casper; Støren, Sigurd. (2012) Environmental information from stakeholders supporting product development. Journal of Cleaner Production. volum 31.
Academic article
Laitala, Kirsi Maria; Boks, Casper. (2012) Sustainable clothing design: use matters. Journal of Design Research. volum 10 (1/2).
Academic article
Laitala, Kirsi Maria; Klepp, Ingun Grimstad; Boks, Casper. (2012) Changing laundry habits in Norway. International Journal of Consumer Studies. volum 36 (2).
Academic article
Volstad, Nina Louise; Boks, Casper. (2012) On the use of Biomimicry as a Useful Tool for the Industrial Designer. Sustainable Development. volum 20 (3).
Academic article
Zachrisson, Johannes Ludvig Daae; Boks, Casper. (2012) Exploring behavioural psychology to support design for sustainable behaviour research. Journal of Design Research. volum 10 (1/2).
Academic article
Laitala, Kirsi Maria; Boks, Casper; Klepp, Ingun Grimstad. (2011) Potential for environmental improvements in laundering. International Journal of Consumer Studies. volum 35 (2).
Academic article
Wever, Renee; van Onselen, Lenny; Silvester, Sacha; Boks, Casper. (2010) Influence of Packaging Design on Littering and Waste Behaviour. Packaging technology & science. volum 23 (5).
Academic article
Boks, Casper; McAloone, Tim. (2009) Transitions in Sustainable Product Design Research. International Journal of Product Development. volum 9 (4).
Academic article
Boks, Casper. (2008) New academic research topics to further ecodesign implementation: an overview. International Journal of Product Development. volum 6 (3/4).
Academic article
Pettersen, Ida Nilstad; Boks, Casper. (2008) The Ethics in Balancing Control and Freedom when Engineering Solutions for Sustainable Behaviour. International Journal of Sustainable Engineering. volum 1 (4).
Academic article
Wever, Renee; van Kuijk, Jasper; Boks, Casper. (2008) User-centred design for sustainable behaviour. International Journal of Sustainable Engineering. volum 1 (1).
Academic article
Boks, Casparus; Stevels, A.. (2007) Essential Perspectives for Design for Environment, Experiences from the Electronics Industry. International Journal of Production Research. volum 45 (18&19).
Academic article
Wever, Renee; Boks, Casparus; Marinelli, Thomas; Stevels, A.. (2007) Increasing the benefits of product-level benchmarking for strategic eco-efficient decision-making. Benchmarking : An International Journal. volum 14 (6).
Academic article

Journal publications

Hebrok, Marie; Boks, Casparus Burghardus. (2017) Household food waste: Drivers and potential intervention points for design – An extensive review. Journal of Cleaner Production. volum 151.
Scientific translation/review
Liem, Andre; Boks, Casper; Green, Lance; Keitsch, Martina; Yen, Ching Chiuan. (2009) Editorial. International Journal of Product Development. volum 9 (4).
Editorial

Books

Boks, Casparus Burghardus; Sigurjónsson, Jóhannes B.; Steinert, Martin; Vis, Anne Carlijn; Wulvik, Andreas. (2016) Proceedings of NordDesign 2016. The Design Society. 2016. ISBN 978-1-904670-80-3.
Scientific anthology
Boks, Casper; McMahon, Chris; Ion, William; Parkinson, Brian. (2010) When Design Education and Design Research meet... Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, NTNU 2-3 September 2010. The Design Society. 2010. ISBN 978-1-904670-19-3.
Scientific anthology

Part of book/report

Camacho-Otero, Juana; Tunn, Vivian; Chamberlin, Lucy Clementine Joyce; Boks, Casper. (2020) Consumers in the circular economy. Handbook of the Circular Economy.
Academic chapter/article
Boks, Casper. (2018) An Introduction to Design for Sustainable Behaviour. Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Design.
Academic chapter/article
Daae, Johannes; Boks, Casper. (2018) Tweaking interaction through understanding the user. Design for Behaviour Change: Theories and Practices of Designing for Change.
Academic chapter/article
Boks, Casper; Daae, Johannes. (2017) Design for sustainable use using principles of behaviour change. Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Product Design.
Academic chapter/article

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