Håkan Edeholt holds since 2008 a tenure position as a Professor (PhD) in design at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design in Norway. Håkan’s professional experience includes industrial design consultancy at commercial research labs. Most notable are Ericson’s User Application Lab, Sweden and Fuji Xerox Palo Alto Lab, Silicon Valley, USA. He has six years of overseas professional experience (Germany, Kenya, South Africa and the USA), with app. four of these years on the African continent. Before the current position, he held an associate professorship at Malmö University in Sweden, where he, among other things, established a new kind of design education built on the idea of bridging the physical and virtual divide manifested by industrial- and interaction design. His PhD – “Design, Innovation and other Paradoxes” – was completed 2004.
Since 2013, the work has primarily focussed on a new area within design based on a combination of Design, Development, Radical Change and Futures, which mainly targets 'glocal' measures to address urgent issues concerning global long-term sustainability and climate change. The work is expressed through the research group "ReFuturing Studio" at the Institute of Design and through a lean global network coined designBRICS+, where especially contacts in fast-growing 'developing countries' (or 'majority world countries') like e.g. China, South Africa, India and Brazil are prioritized.
However, anyone with further ideas and contacts are more than welcome to communicate them to hakan.edeholt@aho.no.
Units/fields
- Industrial Design