About
Marie Hebrok has worked with topics related to sustainable consumption at SIFO since 2011. She is a trained product designer, and has work experience in retail design. She also has a master's degree in technology and science studies from the Center for Technology, Innovation and Culture (TIK) at the University of Oslo, and a doctorate in industrial design from the Department of Design at NTNU. The dissertation "Food Waste: A practice-oriented design for sustainability approach" studies how design can contribute to influencing food practices and reducing food waste. Marie is particularly interested in how the design field can contribute to making consumer practices more sustainable. Thematic areas she works with in ongoing projects are product lifespans, plastics, speculative design, systemic design, and imaginaries of sustainable futures. Other areas of interest and experience include green marketing, aesthetics, waste and digital services.
Field of study
Consumption Sustainable consumption Sustainable design Plastic packaging waste Matsvinn Design research Interdisciplinary research Product longevity Design Fiction Practice oriented design
Research groups
Research projects
Ongoing research projects
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DISCo: Digital infrastructures for sustainable consumption: Redirecting, reorganizing, reducing and reimaging consumption
DISCo aims to produce knowledge on how consumption can move in a more sustainable direction by applying digital technologies.
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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Plateforms: Enabling sustainable food practices through socio-technical innovation
The Research Project PLATEFORMS aims to produce in-depth knowledge on how food practices in the home are affected by innovations in food provisioning platforms.
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REDUCE – Rethinking Everyday Plastics
The project will look at plastic in a systems perspective and investigate how the consumption of plastic products in everyday life can be reduced.
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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.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Heidenstrøm, Nina
;
Hebrok, Marie
(2026).
A taste of tomorrow. How food informs imaginaries of the future.
Amilien, Virginie; Saïdi, Monia; Labarre, Matthieu Duboys de (Ed.).
Sustainable Consumption and Everyday Food Practices in Europe.
Routledge.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5368946
Sarısaltık, Ayşe Kaplan;
Hebrok, Marie
;
Gulden, Tore
(2025).
A Systemic Design Approach to Sustainable Menstruation Practices.
Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design.
Vol. RSD13.
https://doi.org/https://rsdsymposium.org/sustainab
Berg, Lisbeth Løvbak
;
Hebrok, Marie
(2024).
Holding on or letting go: Conflicting narratives of product longevity.
Resources, Conservation and Recycling.
Vol. 210.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107834
Hebrok, Marie
;
Heidenstrøm, Nina
(2024).
Contested imaginaries of Preferable Food Futures: A Comparative Analysis of the Digital Food Provisioning Platforms ODA and REKO-ringen.
Jacobsen, Eivind; Strandbakken, Pål; Dulsrud, Arne; Skuland, Silje Elisabeth (Ed.).
Consumers and Consumption in Comparison (Volume 37). p. 215-229.
Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
https://doi.org/10.1108/S0195-631020240000037010
Berg, Lisbeth Løvbak
;
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.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4461757
Hebrok, Marie
;
Mainsah, Henry
(2022).
Skinny as a Bird: Design fiction as a vehicle for reflecting on food futures.
Futures: The journal of policy, planning and futures studies.
Vol. 141.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2022.102983
Heidenstrøm, Nina
;
Hebrok, Marie
(2021).
Towards realizing the sustainability potential within digital food provisioning platforms: The case of meal box schemes and online grocery shopping in Norway.
Sustainable Production and Consumption.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2021.06.030
Heidenstrøm, Nina
;
Hebrok, Marie
(2021).
Fridge studies – Rummage through the fridge to understand food waste.
Appetite.
Vol. 165.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2021.105321
Hebrok, Marie
;
Heidenstrøm, Nina
(2019).
Contextualising food waste prevention - Decisive moments within everyday practices.
Journal of Cleaner Production.
Vol. 2010.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.11.141
Hebrok, Marie Cathrine
(2018).
Food waste in the shadow of ideals - a case for practice-oriented design.
Journal of Design Research.
Vol. 16.
https://doi.org/10.1504/JDR.2018.099535
