About
Lisbeth is a Fashion Futurist and designer with years of experience, both as a consultant and a business owner, as well as teaching at Middlesex University, London. She has a master's degree in fashion and sustaianbility from the MA Fashion Futures course at London College of Fashion where she did consumer research and examined the designer’s role in future scenarios based on sustainable clothing consumption. Her research interests are design futuring, sustainability and consumption, and bringing diverse perspectives into the research and conversations around these topics.
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Subject areas
Consumption Clothing Textile Sustainability Design Thinking Sustainable future
Research groups
Research projects
Ongoing research projects
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CHANGE: Environmental systems shift in clothing consumption
In CHANGE, we will investigate what is most essential to reduce the environmental impact of clothing: reduce the amount of clothing that is produced, acquired and disposed of.
Completed research projects
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IMAGINE – Contested Futures of Sustainability
When you think about the future, what do you imagine? Flying cars, tubed food, or high-tech clothing might be among the images that come to mind. IMAGINE sets out to study these images of the future as imaginaries. Imaginaries are the many ways in which we humans think about the future and ways in which they can become possible. Our project looks specifically at how we imagine sustainable futures.
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LASTING: Sustainable prosperity through product durability
How can the lifespans of consumer goods be increased?
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Wasted Textiles
The primary objective of this project is to reduce the use of synthetic textiles and the amount that goes to waste.
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WOOLUME: Polish sheep wool for improved resource utilisation and value creation
The main objective of Woolume is to explore how an under-utilized natural resource – wool from remote mountain regions – can be maximized into materials in local sustainable industry innovation systems that offer high returns on investment and contribute to an optimized, next-generation circular economy.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Laitala, Kirsi
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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. 92-112.
CRC Press.
https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003044413-8
Løvbak Berg, Lisbeth
(2024).
Indigenous approaches to mediation of the climate and nature emergency: a conversation with Vanessa Andreotti.
Skjerven, Astrid; Løvbak Berg, Lisbeth; Nielsen, Liv Merete; Stuedahl, Dagny (Ed.).
Mediating sustainability in the consumer society. p. 209-230.
Routledge.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.432
Løvbak Berg, Lisbeth
;
Hebrok, Marie
(2024).
Holding on or letting go: Conflicting narratives of product longevity.
10 p.
Resources, Conservation and Recycling.
Vol. 210.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107834
Skjerven, Astrid
;
Løvbak Berg, Lisbeth
;
Nielsen, Liv Merete
;
Stuedahl, Dagny
(2024).
Mediating sustainability in the consumer society.
ISBN: 9781003392705.
254 p.
Routledge.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9
Løvbak Berg, Lisbeth
;
Hebrok, Marie
(2023).
Narratives of product longevity: a business vs. consumer perspective.
Niinimäki, Kirsi; Cura, Kirsti (Ed.).
PROCEEDINGS 5th PLATE Conference. p. 578-583.
Aalto University.
http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-64-1367-9
Laitala, Kirsi
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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
Løvbak Berg, Lisbeth
;
Klepp, Ingun Grimstad
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Sigaard, Anna Schytte
; Broda, Jan; Rom, Monika; Kobiela-Mendrek, Katarzyna
(2023).
Reducing Plastic in Consumer Goods: Opportunities for Coarser Wool.
28 p.
Fibers.
Vol. 11.
https://doi.org/10.3390/fib11020015
