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Irene Maldini at PLATE

Join us for a thematic session at the PLATE 2025 conference in July

2025 is the last year for the CHANGE project and one of the closing activities is a thematic session at the Product Lifetimes and the Environment (PLATE) conference. The thematic session on “Rebound effects and critical views on product durability”, co-chaired by Irene Maldini, Ingun Klepp, Kirsi Laitala, Eléonore Maitre-Ekern, Harald Wieser welcomes contributions until November 29th, 2024.

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Books

Local, Slow and Sustainable Fashion

Wool as a Fabric for Change

Ingun Grimstad Klepp og Tone Skårdal Tobiasson (eds.), 2022

Inclusive Consumptions

Immigrants’ Access to and Use of Public and Private Goods and Services

Anita Borch , Ivan Harsløf , Ingun Grimstad Klepp & Kirsi Laitala (eds.), 2019

News

Announcing the publication of Decentering Durability: Decarbonizing and Decolonizing Ideas and Practices of Long-Lasting Clothes

Just published in Fashion Theory, an article exploring durability through a decolonial lens. The research it builds on was conducted as part of the LASTING project, led by our very own Kirsi Laitala and funded by the Research…

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