Maja Van Der Velden

• Knapp, P.; Perrin, A. J.; Acheson, C.; Scagliotti, V. & Velden, Maja van der (2026). Climate Activism in Science. I Farley, Martin (Red.), The Sustainability of Science. Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). ISSN 9781837670680. s. 392–432. doi: 10.1039/9781837672202-00393. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This chapter explores the urgent need for deeper, systemic change within science in response to the climate crisis. It begins by exposing the gap between scientific rhetoric and meaningful action, arguing that incremental changes are not enough. Through real-world examples, it reveals how institutions often resist internal calls for transformation, despite their stated values. The chapter critiques overreliance on technological solutions, emphasizing the need to address root causes rather than symptoms. It also calls for anti-colonial approaches to sustainability, urging scientists to reckon with the colonial legacy embedded in research practices and to uplift Indigenous knowledge. Ultimately, the chapter advocates for activism within science, addressing common objections and encouraging scientists to embody the urgency of the crisis through their actions.

• Velden, Maja van der (2025). Digital Degrowth: From Rebound to Regeneration. I Laursen, Linda Nhu & Hansen, Andreas Kornmaaler (Red.), Proceedings of the 6th Product Lifetimes and the Environment Conference (PLATE2025). Aalborg University. ISSN 9788776420604. s. 1092–1099. doi: https:/journals.aau.dk/index.php/plate2025/article/view/10296. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Digitalisation plays a central role in the transition to more sustainable futures. However, it also has negative impacts, such as rebound effects, significantly undermining digitalisation's efficiency gains. Digital degrowth is a relatively new concept in discourses on sustainable digitalisation. Building forth on the concept of degrowth, first proposed in 1972 and gaining strength in the past 20 years, digital degrowth refers to realigning digital technologies to become regenerative; ecological sound and socially just, while simultaneously contributing to resource efficiency in digitalisation efforts. This exploratory paper reflects on digital degrowth and the rebound effects of digitalisation.

• Gasparini, Andrea Alessandro & Velden, Maja Van Der (2025). Minerals as Keepers of Time. I Laursen, Linda Nhu & Hansen, Andreas Kornmaaler (Red.), Proceedings of the 6th Product Lifetimes and the Environment Conference (PLATE2025). Aalborg University. ISSN 9788776420604. s. 914–916. doi: 10.54337/plate2025-10299. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The Product Lifetimes and the Environment (PLATE) conference brings together some of the leading researchers trying to address ways for us to align our consumption more realistically within our planetary means. Within the PLATE community, there is a shared recognition that the current patterns of production and consumption are unsustainable and that extending product lifetimes is a critical, though complex, strategy for reducing environmental impact. However, the mechanisms behind product lifetime extension may also come into question. Therefore, it is crucial to approach the topic of environmental impact caused by product consumption from different angles.

• Mirmotahari, Omid; Gasparini, Andrea Alessandro; Velden, Maja Van Der; Røyne, Anja & Komissarova, Tatsiana (2025). Miljøparadokset i kunstig intelligens: En balansegang mellom teknologisk fremskritt og bærekraft. Nordic Journal of STEM Education. 9(2), s. 250–254. doi: 10.5324/njsteme.v9i2.6403. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  I takt med at kunstig intelligens (KI) og andre avanserte teknologier revolusjonerer vårt samfunn, vokser bekymringen for deres miljøpåvirkning. Dette posisjonsdokumentet undersøker det paradoksale forholdet mellom teknologisk utvikling og miljømessig bærekraft, med særlig fokus på ressursbruk og energiforbruk. Vi drøfter hvordan utviklingen av stadig mer kraftfulle systemer står i konflikt med bærekraftsmål, og utforsker potensielle løsninger for å balansere teknologisk fremskritt med miljøansvar. Særlig vektlegger vi betydningen av å integrere bærekraftsperspektiver og digital kompetanse i STEM-utdanning for å forberede fremtidens forskere, designere, ingeniører og beslutningstakere på tvers av naturvitenskap, teknologi, ingeniørfag og matematikk.

• Krogstie, John; Krogstie, Birgit Rognebakke; Velden, Maja van der; Gasparini, Andrea Alessandro & Chasanidou, Dimitra (2024). Sustainability analysis of AI-based tools in higher education, NordiCHI '24 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2024 Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ISSN 9798400709654. s. 1–3. doi: 10.1145/3677045.3685461. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Velden, Maja Van Der; Maitre-Ekern, Eléonore & Wanja, Deborah Katland (2023). The Role of Independent Repair in a Circular and Regenerative Economy. Circular Economy and Sustainability. ISSN 2730-597X. doi: 10.1007/s43615-023-00304-y. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The focus on the transition to a circular economy has contributed to a growing research interest in repair. This paper investigates the role of independent repair, which consists of individuals, organisations, or businesses engaged in the repair of products without formal authorisation of the brand owners of these products. Repair—and independent repair in particular—is critical in achieving a paradigm shift that is anchored in regenerative sustainability. Especially in the electrical and electronics equipment sector, independent repair is challenged by difficult or expensive access to spare parts and repair information. This paper focuses on the independent electronics repair sector in Oslo. We implemented twenty-five semi-structured interviews with repairers working in commercial independent repair shops, focusing on challenges and opportunities in independent repair. They repaired a wide variety of products: mobile phones, desktop computers, laptops, tablets, cameras, printers, e-mobility batteries, remote-controlled cars, drones, and white goods. The thematic analysis of the interviews revealed three main findings. The independent repair sector employs different business models and strategies to tackle the challenges related to accessing affordable and quality spare parts. Secondly, independent repair fills the gap between expensive authorised repair, mostly covered by warranty or insurance, and discarding a broken product. Thirdly, independent repair has contributed to a circular spare part economy, both locally and on a global level. In the discussion, we address how repair can be understood as a regenerative practice, as well as how policy and regulation of repair, both on an EU and national level, supports or undermines independent repair.

• Velden, Maja van der; Russell, Roseanne & Sjåfjell, Beate Kristine (2023). Interdisciplinarity for Sustainable Business. I Sjåfjell, Beate Kristine; Russell, Roseanne & Velden, Maja van der (Red.), Interdisciplinary Research for Sustainable Business: Perspectives of Women Business Scholars. Springer Nature. ISSN 9783031069239. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In this introductory chapter, we first situate this volume in the larger context of sustainability and the different forms of corporate sustainability. Supported by the literature, we argue that corporate sustainability is often weak sustainability, where sustainability issues are sought integrated into business rather than positioning business within sustainability. Drawing on a research-based understanding of sustainability, we propose the following definition of sustainable business: A business is sustainable when it, in aggregate, contributes to securing the social foundations for humanity, now and for the future, within planetary boundaries. We then focus on the role of interdisciplinarity for sustainable business research. We present the Daughters of Themis Network and its call for papers, which focused on moving beyond the widely accepted acknowledgement of the need for interdisciplinarity and instead to explore how interdisciplinarity can be brought into effect. We briefly present the contributions in this volume, organised in three parts, Reflections, Theory, and Practice. The chapters present the depth and variety of interdisciplinary business research. We conclude with a call for strong interdisciplinarity in sustainable business research to overcome the limitations of our disciplines and to work towards the development of new methodologies and new knowledge to further sustainable business.

• Velden, Maja van der & Sjåfjell, Beate Kristine (2023). ‘Thinking with Care’: Exploring interdisciplinarity in a global research project. I Sjåfjell, Beate Kristine; Russell, Roseanne & Velden, Maja van der (Red.), Interdisciplinary Research for Sustainable Business: Perspectives of Women Business Scholars. Springer Nature. ISSN 9783031069239. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-06924-6_2. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This chapter provides a brief overview of different ways of conceptualising interdisciplinarity but refrains from providing a clear definition. Based on experiences in a large, interdisciplinary research project, the authors rather show how the interdisciplinary of the project changed over time. Drawing on the work of Donna Haraway, Joan Tronto, and Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, interdisciplinarity is explored and conceptualised as a doing of care and an object of care. The authors provide examples of what supported and hampered the doing of such care work. The boundary concept of regulatory ecology advanced both theoretical and methodological development in the project as well as contributed to strengthening relationships and communication within the team. Care work was sometimes hampered by the disciplinary dialects of the participants, which can also result in different interpretations given to metaphors and visualisations. As an object of care, interdisciplinarity requires time for dialogue and critical reflection. The authors show how the disciplinary power of project implementation and deadlines took precedence in the second half of the project, challenging the project’s critical and exploratory edge. Interdisciplinarity needs to be cultivated, to be cared for, which takes time, and which should already be expressed in the project proposal.

• Årsand, Siv; Velden, Maja Van Der & Gasparini, Andrea Alessandro (2023). A Materials Library as a Method to Explore the Conditions for Regenerative Technologies and Systems. RSD5 Symposium Proceedings. ISSN 2371-8404. RSD12, s. 1–15. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Inspired by the regenerative message of Nordmarka’s Future Library, whose books will only be printed once the trees planted for this purpose have reached maturity (100 years), we present the Materials Library for the Digital World. This Library will enable access to the invisible world of materials that become our digital technologies. Each material in the Library will become an entry point on a gigamap (Sevaldson, 2011, 2018) that will visualise the complexity of connections between the different sites of resource extraction, manufacturing, use, and discarding of digital devices. In this paper, we present some background on materials libraries, followed by a short presentation of our design framework and some of the concepts that will inspire the design of the Materials Library. These concepts are entanglement of nature and technology, visualising the invisible, open, nomadic, pluriverse, and slow. We understand our Materials Library as a creative method to provoke (Jones, 2014)—to question the normalcy and business-as-usual of the digital world and as a design method that enables the conditions for regenerative technologies and systems to emerge.

• Wilson, Christopher Ben & Velden, Maja Van Der (2022). Sustainable AI: An integrated model to guide public sector decision-making. Technology in society. ISSN 0160-791X. 68. doi: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2022.101926. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Ethics, explainability, responsibility, and accountability are important concepts for questioning the societal impacts of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI), but are insufficient to guide the public sector in regulating and implementing AI. Recent frameworks for AI governance help to operationalize these by identifying the processes and layers of governance in which they must be considered, but do not provide public sector workers with guidance on how they should be pursued or understood. This analysis explores how the concept of sustainable AI can help to fill this gap. It does so by reviewing how the concept has been used by the research community and aligning research on sustainable development with research on public sector AI. Doing so identifies the utility of boundary conditions that have been asserted for social sustainability according to the Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development, and which are here integrated with prominent concepts from the discourse on AI and society. This results in a conceptual model that integrates five boundary conditions to assist public sector decision-making about how to govern AI: Diversity, Capacity for learning, Capacity for self-organization, Common meaning, and Trust. These are presented together with practical approaches for their presentation, and guiding questions to aid public sector workers in making the decisions that are required by other operational frameworks for ethical AI.

• Velden, Maja van der (2021). ‘I felt a new connection between my fingers and brain’: a thematic analysis of student reflections on the use of pen and paper during lectures. Teaching in Higher Education. ISSN 1356-2517. doi: 10.1080/13562517.2020.1863347. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This paper presents an analysis of a hundred and one handwritten essays by master students in Informatics. The students reflected on their experiences of working with pen and paper for reading and writing as a mandatory assignment for the duration of a five-week intensive course. Taking an inductive approach, reflexive thematic analysis was used to identify patterns of meaning across the full dataset. The essays elicited insightful student reflections on learning, knowing, and being. One overarching theme, New connections, and four sub-theses were identified: Handwriting as note making, Being present for learning, Freedom to think, and Materiality of reading and writing. This study contributes to an improved understanding of the affordances of paper and laptops in the lecture room, based on a student-centred approach, and reflects on how student perspectives can be implemented during lectures.

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• Sjåfjell, Beate Kristine; Russell, Roseanne & Velden, Maja van der (2023). Interdisciplinary Research for Sustainable Business. Springer. ISBN 9783031069246. 252 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This volume brings together contributions from women business scholars from a range of disciplines and countries. The starting point was a collaborative research meeting organised by Daughters of Themis: International Network of Female Business Scholars in June 2017. The volume highlights the difficulties and the possibilities that lie in working together across disciplines with the aim of achieving corporate sustainability. The volume is written from the perspective of women business scholars, thereby offering outside viewpoints in fields that still are very much dominated by men, and fresh insights and innovate ideas. In three main parts, the authors address the need for interdisciplinarity in research to identify ways to ensure the contribution of business to sustainability, showcasing a number of theoretical and applied approaches for researching sustainable business. The volume ‘s introductory chapter situates the volume in discourses of sustainability and corporate sustainability. It presents the Daughters of Themis Network and provides a short description of the successive eleven chapters. In Part I, Reflections, contributors discuss the significance of interdisciplinary research, how to work across disciplines, as well as the challenges of doing so. In Part II, Theory, contributors discuss theoretical and methodological aspects of interdisciplinary research. Part III presents the Practice of interdisciplinary research. In the introductory chapter, the editors reflect on the insights that can be drawn out of the contributions, and discuss the potential for future developments of interdisciplinary research for sustainability, as well as how interdisciplinary research can be communicated. The book is intended for business scholars, and will particularly appeal to those working in law, accountancy and finance, management, and organization studies.

• Sjåfjell, Beate Kristine; Russell, Roseanne & Velden, Maja van der (2023). Interdisciplinary Research for Sustainable Business: Perspectives of Women Business Scholars. Springer Nature. ISBN 9783031069239. 266 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Watzl, Sebastian; Williams, James; Myrstad, Finn; Sjursen, Michelle & Velden, Maja van der (2026). Power and distraction. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Who shapes our attention? How does it affect both personal agency and democracy? Leading scholars and practitioners discuss technology, power, and how we can regain control over our attentional lives.

• Halverson, Sandra Louise; Afdal, Hilde Wågsås; Siddiq, Fazilat & Velden, Maja Van Der (2024). Argumenter mot akademisk boikott — kjente grep med lite hold. Khrono. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Milch, Nora; Olsen, Rasmus Sylvester & Velden, Maja Van Der (2024). Etiske anskaffelsesrutiner er en plikt, UiO må endre praksis. Uniforum. ISSN 1891-5825. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Sætra, Henrik Skaug & Velden, Maja van der (2023). En minister for tekno­logi­op­ti­mister. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Sætra, Henrik Skaug; Borgebund, Harald; Velden, Maja van der; Danaher, John; Coeckelbergh, Mark & Selinger, Evan (2023). En KI-milliard for din tekno-optimisme. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Årsand, Siv; Velden, Maja Van Der & Gasparini, Andrea Alessandro (2023). A Materials Library as a Method to Explore the Conditions for Regenerative Technologies and Systems. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Inspired by the regenerative message of Nordmarka’s Future Library, whose books will only be printed once the trees planted for this purpose have reached maturity (100 years), we present the Materials Library for the Digital World. This Library forms an entry into the invisible world of materials that become our digital technologies. Each material in the Library will become an entry point on a Gigamap (Sevaldson, 2011, 2018) that will visualise the complexity of connections between the different sites of resource extraction, manufacturing, use, and discarding of digital devices. In this paper, we present some background on materials libraries, followed by a short presentation of our design framework and some of the concepts that will inspire the design of the Materials Library. These concepts are entanglement of nature and technology, visualising the invisible, open, nomadic, pluriverse, and slow. We understand our Materials Library as a creative method to provoke (Jones, 2014) – to question the normalcy and business-as-usual of the digital world and as a design method that enables the conditions for regenerative technologies and systems to emerge.

• Velden, Maja van der; Halverson, Sandra Louise; Rommetveit, Kjetil; Skjeggedal, Terje; Myong, Lene & Walton, Stephen John [Vis alle 12 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2023). Derfor trenger vi en akademisk boikott av Israel. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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