Renee Wever

Professor

Design researcher with a passion for packaging and sustainability. I lead the research area in Design, which has two topics: 'User-centred design for sustainability and circularity', and 'practices of design'.

Professor of Industrial Design with specialisation in engineering design

Academic degrees

2015 Professor of Industrial Design Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden
2009 PhD ’Thinking-about-the-Box; A Holistic Approach to Sustainable Design Engineering of Packaging for Durable Consumer Goods’, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
2003 MSc Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Teaching

PhD program in design
International master in design
Design and Product development (DPU)

International commitments

Editor Journal of Design Research (www.inderscience.com/jdr).
Editorial board member Sustainability (MDPI)
Editorial board member Packaging Technology and Science (Wiley).
Several scientific committees for international conferences

Social media

Twitter accounts @reneewever and @LiUdesign
LinkedIn

Publications

2024

Juan Ruiz Muñoz, Renee Wever (2024) Design team formation using self-assessment and observer-assessment techniques: mapping practices in a global network of universities Design Science, Vol. 10, Article e7

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2023

Renee Wever (2023) Opening-up the power of innovation: or: what we can learn from Pippi, Willy Wonka & Tintin

Moa Berglund, Sofia Bystedt, David Eklöf, Martijn van Den Bosch, Renee Wever (2023) Chair a Story - What Repurpose-Driven Design can contribute to upcycling more dining room chairs PLATE - Product Lifetimes and the Environment, p. 109-115

Juan Felipe Ruiz Muñoz, Renee Wever (2023) What is your (freaking) Problem? Prototypes for problem exploration on early stages of design From Abstractness to Concreteness – experiential knowledge and the role of prototypes in design research: International Conference 2023 of the Design Research Society Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Proceedings, p. 702-715

2021

Nazli Terzioglu, Renee Wever (2021) Integrating Repair into Product Design Education: Insights on Repair, Design and Sustainability Sustainability, Vol. 13, Article 10067

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News

First master’s graduates in design

The first year-group from the international master’s programme in design has graduated.“It suited me perfectly that the programme was new and a bit disorganised. I’ve benefited from everything in the master’s programme” Caspar Reuterswärd assures us.

Reducing food waste should be fun

In the exhibition Designing out food waste, students from the LiU international master’s programme in design presented fifteen ideas that can reduce food waste. They exhibited their work at “Elsas hus” in Linköping.

Design a new strong profile

Three new professors of design and a newly developed international master’s programme will further reinforce LiU’s position within Swedish design.

Organisation

Product Realisation (PROD)

The Division of Product Realisation belongs to the Department of Economic and Industrial Development (IEI). The department conducts education at the basic and advanced level, research and postgraduate education.

Department of Management and Engineering (IEI)

The Department of Management and Engineering (IEI) strengthens and develops tomorrow’s industry, business world and society by ground-breaking research, education and innovation.

Studenthuset on Campus Valla in Linköping

About LiU

Linköping University, LiU, offers innovative education and boundary-crossing research. The students are among the most desirable in the labour market and international rankings consistently place LiU as a leading global university.