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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

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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 (MDES)
  • Design and Product development (DPU)

International commitments

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

Social media

  • Twitter accounts @reneewever and @LiUdesign
  • LinkedIn

Publications

2024

Elena Jiménez Romanillos, Wanjun Chu, Renee Wever (2024) Take out (the) packaging: Analysis of a Returnable Packaging Service
Shilpi Reema Rath, Wanjun Chu, Nazli Terzioglu Özkan, Renee Wever (2024) Designing Interventions for Sustainability: A Conceptual Framework for Information Scoping in the Design Research Phase EcoDesign for Sustainable Products, Services and Social Systems I, p. 429-446 (Chapter in book) Continue to DOI
Elena Jiménez Romanillos, Helen Williams, Renee Wever (2024) Unpacking Behaviours: A Literature Study and Research Agenda on Consumer Behaviour in Packaging-Free Systems Packaging technology & science, Vol. 37, p. 821-840 (Article, review/survey) Continue to DOI
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 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2023

Jasper Van Kuijk, Renee Wever (2023) Spinning out of control - reflections on the (non)sense of repurposing as a circular economy loop 5th PLATE conference: Product Lifetimes and the Environment (Conference paper)

News

Caspar Reuterswärd

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.
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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.
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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

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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.
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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.

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