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Department of Management, Society and Communication
- Centre for Sustainability

My international profile combines a background in psychology, interaction and service design, and user-research providing a fertile ground for bridging cultures, technology, and design through various projects. I believe in playful creative approaches, in the power of storytelling and prototyping, developing businesses and tools through blueprints focusing on circular business approaches.
- Service Design
- Urban studies & sustainability
- Play
- Children & Technology
Project manager for the Urban Challenge Programme, May 2018 - May 2019
Latest
Dioba, A., Schmid, A., Struthers, D., Aliahmad, A., Struthers, D., & Fróes, I. (Forthcoming 2025) Human excreta recycling in Sweden: a PESTEL-SWOT framework analysis. Journal of Environmental Management.Ìý
Blasco, M., Fróes, I. & Pontoppidan, C. (Forthcoming, 2025) Learning to account for nature: teaching biodiversity at a business school. In Wall, T.,Ìý Girei, E., Antonacopoulou, E., Blasco, M., Nkomo, S., Ogunyemi, K. (eds) The Elgar Companion to Management Education and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.Ìý
Dioba, A., Giannakopoulou, A., Struthers, D., Stamos, A., Dewitte, S., & Fróes, I. (2024). Identifying Key Barriers to Joining an Energy Community Using AHP. Energy, Article 131478.
Vallim, D., Giannakopoulou, A., Schmid, A., Struthers, D., Altsitsiadis, E., & Fróes, I. (2024). Networks for Integrated Wildfire Management: A Social Network Analysis Approach. Proceedings of the International ISCRAM Conference, 21.
Raquel Cordeiro; Manuela Quaresma; Isabel Fróes / In: SERVDES 2023: Entanglements and Flows: Service Encounters and Meanings . . ed. /Carla Cipolla; Claudia Mont’Alvão; Larissa Farias; Manuela Quaresma . : ServDes 28.11.2023 (Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings, No. 203).
Earlier publications
Froes I, Struthers D, Malacarne C et al. The Beating Heart of Untapped Business Opportunities for Additive Manufacturing . Open Research Europe 2023, 3:143
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Fróes, I., & Bolbroe, C. (2022). Human-centred Research and Open Innovation (OI): How to Implement and Facilitate Crosscutting Collaborations in the Built Environment. In M. S. Mahnke, M. Nielsen, M. L. Petersen, & L. Tjørring (Eds.), Business Meets the Humanities: The Human Perspective in University-industry Collaboration (pp. 97-116). Routledge. Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
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Schiavo, F.T.; Calili, R.F.; de Magalhães, C.F.; Fróes, I.C.G. The Meaning of Electric Cars in the Context of Sustainable Transition in Brazil. Sustainability 2021, 13, 11073.
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Fróes, I. Lasthein, M.K. (2020). Co-creating sustainable urban metabolism towards healthier cities. Urban Transform 2, 5, Springer Nature.
Fróes, I., Tosca, S. (2017) Playful subversions: small children and tablet use. European Journal of communication Studies. London, Sage
Fróes, I., Tosca, S. (2016) Hands between the Worlds. In Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography. Eds. Hjorth, L. Horst, H. Galloway, A. Bell, G. London, Routledge
Fróes, I. (2015) Once Upon a Tablet: A school toy in the making. Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Access to Learning, Health and Well-Being Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 9177, 2015, pp 43-53
Fróes I.C.G. (2013) Dead-Until-Touched: How Digital Icons Can Transform the Way We Interact with Information. In: Stephanidis C., Antona M. (eds) Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Applications and Services for Quality of Life. UAHCI 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8011. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
Project publications
Through the Cities-4-People project, Isabel Froes has been involved in co-writing with 3 other neighbourhood projects the publication, Big Messages - lessons for co-creative mobility initiatives in neighbourhoods, issued in 2021. The publication highlights lessons learned and both challenges and opportunities in co-creating mobility solutions in urban environments. Learn more and read the publication
Also through the Cities-4People project, Isabel Froes has been involved in the publication, CIVITAS Research Projects, Lessons Learned 2016-2020, issued in May 2021. The publication showcases the key lessons learned from six CIVITAS Research and Innovation Action (RIA) projects funded since 2016: Cities-4-People, METAMORPHOSIS, Mobility Urban Values, PROSPERITY, SUITS, and SUMPs-Up. These projects formed two broad clusters – neighbourhood mobility planning projects and projects working on Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs). Learn more and read the publication .
In: Energy, Vol. 299, 15.7.2024
In: Proceedings of the International ISCRAM Conference. ed. /Berthold Penkert; Bernd Hellingrath; Monika Rode; Adam Widera; Michael Middelhoff; Kees Boersma; Matthias Kalthöner. Brussels : ISCRAM Association 2024
Nicosia : ACCELIGENCE Ltd 2024, 163 p. (TREEADS Deliverables, No. D3.3)
: BEcoop Project 2023, 49 p.
In: SERVDES 2023: Entanglements and Flows: Service Encounters and Meanings . . ed. /Carla Cipolla; Claudia Mont’Alvão; Larissa Farias; Manuela Quaresma . : ServDes 28.11.2023 (Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings, No. 203)
In: Open Research Europe, Vol. 3, 2023
: BEcoop Project 2022, 64 p.
In: Business Meets the Humanities: The Human Perspective in University-industry Collaboration. . ed. /Martina Skrubbeltrang Mahnke; Mikka Nielsen; Matilde Lykkebo Petersen; Lise Tjørring. New York : Routledge 2022, p. 97-116 (Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society)
: iProduce 2021, 52 p. (iProduce Project Deliverables, No. D7.1)
: Polis Network 2021, 32 p.
: iProduce 2021, 96 p. (iProduce Project Deliverables, No. D7.2)
In: Advances in Mobility-as-a-Service Systems: Proceedings of 5th Conference on Sustainable Urban Mobility, Virtual CSUM2020, June 17-19, 2020, Greece. . ed. /Eftihia G. Nathanail; Giannis Adamos; Ioannis Karakikes. Cham : Springer 2021, p. 562-572 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Vol. 1160)
: BEcoop Project 2021, 66 p.
In: Sustainability, Vol. 13, No. 19, 10.2021
Freiburg : Civitas 2021, 4 p.
In: Urban Transformations, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2020
: iProduce 2020, 83 p. (iProduce Project Deliverables, No. D2.4)
Frederiksberg : Cities-4-People Consortium 2019, 35 p.
Bingley : Emerald Group Publishing 2019, 133 p.
In: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Sustainable Development and PlanningVol. 217, Southampton : WIT Press 2018, p. 165-173 (WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, Vol. 217)
Frederiksberg : Cities-4-People Consortium 2018, 4 p.
In: European Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2.2018, p. 39–58
København : IT-Universitetet i København 2017, 198 p. (ITU-DS, No. 130)
In: The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography. ed. /Larissa Hjorth; Heather Horst; Anne Galloway; Genevieve Bell. New York : Routledge 2016, p. 263-272
In: Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Access to Learning, Health and Well-Being: 9th International Conference, UAHCI 2015, Held as Part of HCI International 2015, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2-7, 2015, Proceedings, Part III. Vol. 9177, : Springer VS 2.8.2015, p. 43-53 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
In: Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Applications and Services for Quality of LifeVol. 8011, : Springer VS HCI International 2013, 2013, p. 611-619 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 8011)
Abstract from CHI 2013, 2013
In: Selected Papers of Internet Research, Vol. 14, Internet Research 14.0: Resistance and Appropriation, 2013
In: Conversations with visitors: Social Media in Museums. Edinburgh, UK : MuseumsEtc 2012, p. 110-129
In: Museums at Play: Games, Interaction and Learning. . ed. /Katy Beale. Edinburgh : MuseumsEtc 2011, p. 486-499
In: Museums and the Web 2011: Proceedings. ed. /J. Trant; D. Bearman. Toronto : Archives and Museums Informatics 31.3.2011
: Decarbomile 2024, 139 p.
São Paulo : Whow 2020
København tar grep mot sin største klimatrussel - vannet
Permaculture gardeners want to defy business school norm of neat green lawns
Hvordan kan sociale videnskaber bruges til at forstå og udvikle social bæredygtighed i arkitekturen?
Cidades inteligentes para além da tecnologia: Smart Cities vão muito além da robótica, pois o olhar humano é parte essencial de um bom planejamento urbano
Como a pandemia pode redefinir cidades e transformar aspectos da mobilidade urbana
Pandemia cria oportunidade de visualização de variáveis do futuro da mobilidade urbana
- Postdoc position - Albina Dioba
- Closing the gap between fork and farm for circular nutrient flows
- Multicriteria analysis of the technical, environmental and social factors triggering the PIMBY principle for Wind technologies
- Cirkulær beton - Udvikling af teknologi til 100% reel genanvendelse af nedrivningsbeton i ny cement og beton
- Permahaven: Læring om bæredygtighed i fællesskab
- SARU fellowship - Albina Dioba
- Advancing European Industrial Sustainability and Competitiveness through Circular Design Strategies, Digital Product Passports, and Sustainable Product-Service Systems in the Furniture Sector
- Envisioning an integrated quadruple helix and RRI framework for food system transformation and regional innovation ecosystem enhancement
Name of contractual partner |
Duration of activity |
Type of activity |
Novo Nordisk Fonden |
September 2018 |
Blind Review project application |
Circular Transition | 2020 | Service design consultancy |
European Commission | May 2022 | Consultant |
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