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Global environmental change is not just a bio-physical reality. It has affective, relational, and existential dimensions that influence people. Artistic methods can be used in research to communicate about or disseminate global environmental change and explore people’s emotions about and sense-making of global environmental change. While often positioned as a mode of outreach, this presentation re

Debates on human-centric Industry 5.0 often promise safer, more meaningful production line work, but are these promises realised or undermined in everyday work on human-robot production lines? This study explores how work becomes meaningful or meaningless for production line workers. We draw on interviews with production line workers (N = 24), developers (N = 13), and managers (N = 19) at two auto

Following the Fish is an artistic research and pedagogical project developed through workshops and architectural investigations across Barcelona, Lund and Venice between January and July of 2023. Developed within the framework of a Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) and Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL), the project brings together architecture students and teachers from multiple i

This is a construction manual for the latest SolarFood indirect solar dryer at the time of publication. It is intended as a practical guide for carpenters, and assumes a basic level of carpentry experience.A Blender 3D model is also included alongside the manual.Further informationThe standard capacity of the dryer is around 5-10 kg depending on the crop, but can be scaled up or down as needed by

As posited in this themed issue, the notion of platformed communities accounts for a multitude of relations between users, content creators and platforms. This article analyses how synthetic influencers negotiate existing practices of community building in creator cultures. It frontloads how boundaries of communal and commodified online environments are further blurred in platformed cultural produ

Following Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, Ukraine has adopted innovative communication strategies to build and sustain Western support. Among these is the prominent visibility of LGBT+ soldiers in Ukrainian strategic communication, which links military heroism, LGBT+ rights and national survival. This article explores how the digital self-narration of Ukrainian LGBT+ service members and spok

We examine whether preventive health care uptake varies with cultural background related to patience and risk-taking. We combine individual-level survey data on preventive care use from 27 European countries with country-level preference measures from the Global Preferences Survey. To reduce confounding from institutional and economic correlates of culture, we focus on second-generation immigrants

BACKGROUND: Continuity of care is key for high-quality primary care, associated with improved health outcomes, reduced mortality and more efficient use of resources. Achieving relational continuity is challenging in systems with high provider choice and fragmented care-seeking. Sweden exemplifies this tension, combining broad access to primary care and low GP continuity.AIM: To examine how individ

Purpose – Research on management control for innovation has shifted from viewing control as primarily constraining to recognizing that control can also enable innovation. However, common ways of classifying control such as mechanisms, tools or types of use can understate what makes management control in innovation settings distinctive. This paper aims to propose a vocabulary to support richer expl

Firms struggle to translate sustainability ambitions into innovation practices, especially in crisis contexts where leaders must navigate ambiguity, competing demands, and rapid change. This study examines how top managers use sense-related practices to cultivate an adaptive space for sustainability-oriented innovation (SOI) under crisis-induced conditions. Drawing on an in-depth, process-oriented

Civil society organisations play numerous key roles in governing and practically enacting sustainable development. For rural development this importantly includes farmer-based organisations, which among other things can represent and amplify farmers’ voices. In sub-Saharan Africa, small-scale farmers in particular lack organisational vehicles for political influence. This study analyses an attempt

How do grassroots initiatives define success? This study surveys 64Swedish groups affiliated with the Transition Town (TT) movement toexamine how they understand and experience success within thecontext of competing social movement logics. Using a mixedmethodskey-informant design, the study combines thematic analysisof open responses with statistical analysis of group characteristics.Respondents a