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Kirsi Laitala

Kirsi Laitala

About

Kirsi Laitala is a senior researcher at the department for Technology and Sustainability at the Consumption Research Norway (SIFO), where she has been working with textiles and clothing research since 2001. She gained her MSc degree in textile, clothing and fiber engineering from Tampere University of Technology in 2001, and completed a PhD at the Department of Product Design at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 2014. Laitala has researched and published on areas related to clothing quality, maintenance, safety, environmental issues, design, as well as fit and size issues, including reports for industry as well as scientific journal articles. Her current research interest lies within sustainable clothing consumption. She uses interdisciplinary research methods that often combine technical laboratory based tests with consumer studies, as well as qualitative and quantitative methods.

Fields of study

Subject areas

Environment   Clothing   Textile   Consumer behaviour   Sustainable consumption   Clothing consumption   Tekstiler   Textile wash   Laundry

Research projects

Ongoing research projects

Completed research projects

Scientific publications

Vladimirova, Katia; Samie, Yassie; Maldini, Irene; Iran, Samira; Laitala, Kirsi ; Henninger, Claudia; Ibrahim Alosaimi, Sarah; Drennan, Kelly; Lam, Hannah; Texeira, Ana-Luisa; Jestratijevic, Iva; Weber, Sabine (2024). Urban transitions towards sufficiency-oriented circular post-consumer textile economies. Nature Cities.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-024-00140-7

Haugsrud, Ingrid ; Klepp, Ingun Grimstad ; Laitala, Kirsi (2024). Clothing care. Henninger, Claudia; Alevizou, Panayiota; Ryding, Daniella; Goworek, Helen (Ed.). The Palgrave Handbook of Sustainability in Fashion. p. 47-64. Palgrave Macmillan.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-69682-4_4

Laitala, Kirsi ; Klepp, Ingun Grimstad ; Løvbak Berg, Lisbeth (2024). The Impact of Modes of Acquisition on Clothing Lifetimes. Niinimäki, Kirsi (Ed.). Recycling and Lifetime Management in the Textile and Fashion Sector. p. 91-111. CRC Press.
https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003044413-8

Laitala, Kirsi ; Løvbak Berg, Lisbeth ; Strandbakken, Pål (2023). Why won’t you complain? Consumer rights and the unmet product lifespan requirements. Niinimäki, Kirsi; Cura, Kirsti (Ed.). PROCEEDINGS 5th PLATE Conference. p. 563-568. Aalto University.
http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-64-1367-9

Sigaard, Anna Schytte ; Laitala, Kirsi (2023). Natural and Sustainable? Consumers’ Textile Fiber Preferences. 23 p. Fibers. Vol. 11.
https://doi.org/10.3390/fib11020012

Rasch, Tone; Haugsrud, Ingrid ; Laitala, Kirsi (2023). Da klær ble av plast. Nylonstrømpenes vekst og fall. Arr - Idéhistorisk tidsskrift.

Klepp, Ingun Grimstad ; Laitala, Kirsi (2023). Washing Clothes. Pouillard, Véronique; Dube-Senecal, Vincent (Ed.). The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress, 1800 to the Present. p. 491-506. Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429295607-31

Shevchenko, Tetiana; Saidani, Michael; Ranjbari, Meisam; Kronenberg, Jakub; Danko, Yuriy; Laitala, Kirsi (2022). Consumer behavior in the circular economy: Developing a product-centric framework. Journal of Cleaner Production. Vol. 384.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.135568

Klepp, Ingun Grimstad ; Haugrønning, Vilde ; Laitala, Kirsi ; Sigaard, Anna Schytte ; Tobiasson, Tone (2022). A Fashion Future: Fibre Diet. Klepp, Ingun Grimstad; Tobiasson, Tone (Ed.). Local, Slow and Sustainable Fashion. Wool as a Fabric for Change. p. 171-189. Palgrave Macmillan.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-03

Klepp, Ingun Grimstad ; Haugrønning, Vilde ; Laitala, Kirsi ; Sigaard, Anna Schytte ; Tobiasson, Tone (2022). The Fate of Natural Fibres in Environmental Evaluations: A Question of Volume. Klepp, Ingun Grimstad; Tobiasson, Tone (Ed.). Local, Slow and Sustainable Fashion. Wool as a Fabric for Change. p. 35-59. Palgrave Macmillan.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-03





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