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Charlotte Asbjørn Sörensen is a design researcher focusing on sustainability transitions through material-, practice-, and systems-oriented design. Her work spans industrial design, circular and regenerative design, and collaborative innovation, with an emphasis on how design practices can support resource-efficient, resilient, and context-sensitive systems.

Her earlier research explores material selection and reflective material practices in industrial design. She has developed conceptual frameworks that describe how designers engage with material knowledge, tacit expertise, and experiential learning. Through qualitative case studies and educational research, she has demonstrated how material-driven approaches can support more informed and contextually grounded design decisions.

More recently, her research addresses bio-based, circular, and regenerative design practices, including locally grounded material development and regenerative product design. This work highlights the role of designers as integrators across technical, social, and ecological dimensions, and identifies gaps between system-level sustainability ambitions and everyday design practices.

Her research combines qualitative methods, co-creation, and real-world experimentation. She currently focuses on local and circular food systems, retail environments, and consumer practices, exploring how design can help align production, infrastructure, and consumption. Her work contributes both theoretical frameworks and applied methods for supporting sustainability transitions in complex socio-technical systems.

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Imagining and Co-Creating Futures

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