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Astrid Skjerven

Astrid Skjerven

Job title
  • Professor
Visiting address
  • Pilestredet 52, 0167 Oslo
Phone
  • Mobile: +47 995 07 023
  • Office: +47 672 36 206
E-mail
  • astrid.skjerven@oslomet.no
Affiliation

About

Professor Emerita. Special interest fields: Culture and sustainability. Everyday aesthetics. Nordic design in a global perspective. Design theory

Field of study

Aesthetics   Culture understanding   Designhistory   Design theory

Administrative field of work

EU   Research training   Research quality   Research collaboration   Research strategy   Innovation   Commercialisation   Reporting

Research groups

Publications and research

Scientific publications

Skjerven, Astrid (2024). Norway in the United Nations Security Council: How a discarded tapestry and a pair of pink socks became the nucleus of a promotion campaign. Skjerven, Astrid; Gotlieb, Rachel (Ed.). Transnational Discourses i Nordic Design. p. 181-195. Bloomsbury Academic.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4710230

Skjerven, Astrid ; Berg, Lisbeth Løvbak ; Nielsen, Liv Merete ; Stuedahl, Dagny (2024). Mediating sustainability in the consumer society. ISBN: 9781003392705. 254 p. Routledge.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3364334

Skjerven, Astrid (2024). Creating sustainability by mythmaking: IKEA's advertising campaigns "The Trash Collection" and "The Life Collection". Skjerven, Astrid; Berg, Lisbeth Løvbak; Nielsen, Liv Merete; Stuedahl, Dagny (Ed.). Mediating sustainability in the consumer society. p. 129-141. Routledge.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5162478

Skjerven, Astrid ; Fordham, Maureen (2022). Gender and the Sustainable Development Goals: Infrastructure, Empowerment and Education. ISBN: 9781032004525. 208 p. Routledge.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4738894

Skjerven, Astrid ; Fordham, Maureen (2022). Gender and the Sustainable Development Goals. ISBN: 9781032004525. 208 p. Routledge.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3514981

Skjerven, Astrid (2019). Bauhaus-innflytelse på undervisningen ved SHKS. Kunst og Kultur.
https://doi.org/10.18261/issn.1504-3029-2019-04-03

Skjerven, Astrid (2019). Envisioning versus realizing products for use in poor communities: The case of Victor Papanek and Nordic designers. Sustainable Development.
https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.1878

Skjerven, Astrid ; Martins, Nuno (2019). Architecture, design and planning towards sustainable development: Regional approaches. Sustainable Development. Vol. 27.
https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.1877

Skjerven, Astrid ; Arnold, Marlen Gabriele; Schneider, Katja (2018). Introduction to the special issue on "The role of SDGs for progressing sustainability". Business Strategy and Development. Vol. 1.
https://doi.org/10.1002/bsd2.32

Skjerven, Astrid (2017). Design without borders: Ideologies, realities, and results. Design Issues. Vol. 33.
https://doi.org/10.1162/DESI_a_00423



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Textbooks

Skjerven, Astrid ; Gotlieb, Rachel (2024). Transnational Discourses i Nordic Design. ISBN: 9781350249202. 265 p. Bloomsbury Academic.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3423569

Skjerven, Astrid (2020). Sustainable cities and communities. ISBN: 9783319957180. 1000 p. Springer.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4420881

Skjerven, Astrid (2019). Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Sustainable Cities and Communities. ISBN: 9783319710617. 400 p. Springer.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3854983

Andersen, Kyrre ; Skjerven, Astrid (2015). Lux - Lighting projects by 2nd year bachelor students at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences. 43 p. HiOA.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4863126

Mæhlum, Johan; Skjerven, Astrid ; Haugen, Sigrid ; Seiersten, Nils ; Gundersen, Gunnar H (2014). Light: Exhibition at DogA - Norwegian Centre for Design and Architecture may 27th - June 1st 2014. Product models by 2nd years bachelor students at the Department of Product design, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences. 43 p. Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4274905

Gundersen, Gunnar H ; Skjerven, Astrid (2011). Switch - katalog belysningsobjekter 2BA produktdesign HiAk: Utstilling DogA 13 mai - 22. mai 2011. 27 p. Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3976915



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Dissemination

Lutnæs, Eva ; Berg, Arild Skarsfjord ; Nielsen, Liv Merete ; Ringvold, Tore Andre ; Maus, Ingvill Gjerdrum ; Skjerven, Astrid ; Strand, Ingri ; Stubbrud-Allum, Christina; Støa, Ida; Brodshaug, Irene (2026). En pioner i fagfeltet. FORM. Vol. 60.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5518042

Skjerven, Astrid (2025). Shakerstil: Fra religiøs sekt til ikonisk design.
https://doi.org/https://eur02.safelinks.protection

Skjerven, Astrid (2025). Norge må hente akademikere fra USA.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3798201

Skjerven, Astrid (2025). PS Magasin : A post scriptum of the era of independent fashion journals?. International Library of Fashion Research Guest Salon. International Library of Fashion Research.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3383696

Skjerven, Astrid (2025). The challenges of interdisciplinary research. SDG Conference 2025. University of Bergen.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3667434

Skjerven, Astrid (2025). Tverrfaglig og transfaglig forskning om bærekraft: Fra ord til handling. Forskningspolitikk.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5086725

Skjerven, Astrid (2025). The challenges of establishing an interdisciplinary PhD programme: Experiences from the PhD programme Innovation for Sustainability (PINS). National network for sustainability in higher education. Norwegian University of Life Sciences.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3867145

Skjerven, Astrid (2024). Rølp og futurisme. Klassekampen.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3540602

Skjerven, Astrid (2024). Kjønnede konvensjoner.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3711970

Skjerven, Astrid ; Berg, Lisbeth Løvbak ; Nielsen, Liv Merete ; Stuedahl, Dagny (2024). Introduction. Skjerven, Astrid; Berg, Lisbeth Løvbak; Nielsen, Liv Merete; Stuedahl, Dagny (Ed.). Mediating sustainability in the consumer society. p. 1-9. Routledge.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4821885



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