Elina Eriksson
Biographic Data
| ID | 288491 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elina Eriksson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elina |
| FAMILY NAME | Eriksson |
| SIGNATURE | ERIKSSON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6261-4487 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Dread, hope and the politics of emotion in engineering education
A socio-ecological polycrisis threatens life on Earth. Learning about the current state of the world can invoke dread, understood as fear of severe futures, and hope that such futures can be avoided. This study asks how dread and hope manifest in sustainability education in engineering, and how educators and students navigate these emotions. Drawing on a theoretical framework that conceptualises emotions as socio-political, we examine educators’ …
Pastcasting
Pandemics and the built environment
Surveys of urban history from ancient times to the present reveal a continuum of collective responses to pandemics ranging from quarantine facilities and monitoring the spread of disease to building new wastewater networks. The contemporary COVID-19 pandemic includes new digital tools and techniques that supplement (and sometimes replace) the existing analogue responses, while raising new ethical issues with respect to privacy. A typology of pand…
Looking backward to the future
While the past is present in all futuring activities it tends to remain implicit and has not received adequate attention by futures scholars and practitioners. In response, this conceptual paper offers a novel framework with which the past can be brought into futures studies in a structured and comprehensive way. We begin by providing a brief account of how the past already figures in futures studies as part of efforts to understand the lingering…
Vitiden
The future of computing and wisdom
What if there had only been half the oil? Rewriting history to envision the consequences of peak oil
At odds with a worldview
column Share on At odds with a worldview: teaching limits at a technical university Authors: Daniel Pargman KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyView Profile , Elina Eriksson KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 23Issue 6November-December 2016 pp 36–39https://doi.org/10.1145/3003839Published:26 October 2016Publication History 2citatio…
Deviant and guilt-ridden
In this position paper we discuss a set of problems particular to computing within limits that draws on psychological and sociological barriers. The enormity of the predicaments we are facing, global climate change and resource scarcity, together with the social, cultural and national settings in which we are facing these predicaments, are seriously hampering our possibility to address them. We argue that without confronting the underlying psycho…
A Field Theory of Visual Illusions
An outline of a field theory for visual illusions is proposed. The main components of the theory are two kinds of interaction functions: an attraction function, effective over empty distance, and an attraction‐repulsion function, effective within filled distance. The theory is tested in some experiments and is discussed in the context of some well‐known illusions
Looking backward to the future
While the past is present in all futuring activities it tends to remain implicit and has not received adequate attention by futures scholars and practitioners. In response, this conceptual paper offers a novel framework with which the past can be brought into futures studies in a structured and comprehensive way. We begin by providing a brief account of how the past already figures in futures studies as part of efforts to understand the lingering…
Vitiden
The future of computing and wisdom
What if there had only been half the oil? Rewriting history to envision the consequences of peak oil
A Field Theory of Visual Illusions
An outline of a field theory for visual illusions is proposed. The main components of the theory are two kinds of interaction functions: an attraction function, effective over empty distance, and an attraction‐repulsion function, effective within filled distance. The theory is tested in some experiments and is discussed in the context of some well‐known illusions
Deviant and guilt-ridden
In this position paper we discuss a set of problems particular to computing within limits that draws on psychological and sociological barriers. The enormity of the predicaments we are facing, global climate change and resource scarcity, together with the social, cultural and national settings in which we are facing these predicaments, are seriously hampering our possibility to address them. We argue that without confronting the underlying psycho…
At odds with a worldview
column Share on At odds with a worldview: teaching limits at a technical university Authors: Daniel Pargman KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyView Profile , Elina Eriksson KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 23Issue 6November-December 2016 pp 36–39https://doi.org/10.1145/3003839Published:26 October 2016Publication History 2citatio…
What if there had only been half the oil? Rewriting history to envision the consequences of peak oil
Vitiden
The future of computing and wisdom
Looking backward to the future
While the past is present in all futuring activities it tends to remain implicit and has not received adequate attention by futures scholars and practitioners. In response, this conceptual paper offers a novel framework with which the past can be brought into futures studies in a structured and comprehensive way. We begin by providing a brief account of how the past already figures in futures studies as part of efforts to understand the lingering…
Pandemics and the built environment
Surveys of urban history from ancient times to the present reveal a continuum of collective responses to pandemics ranging from quarantine facilities and monitoring the spread of disease to building new wastewater networks. The contemporary COVID-19 pandemic includes new digital tools and techniques that supplement (and sometimes replace) the existing analogue responses, while raising new ethical issues with respect to privacy. A typology of pand…
Pastcasting
Dread, hope and the politics of emotion in engineering education
A socio-ecological polycrisis threatens life on Earth. Learning about the current state of the world can invoke dread, understood as fear of severe futures, and hope that such futures can be avoided. This study asks how dread and hope manifest in sustainability education in engineering, and how educators and students navigate these emotions. Drawing on a theoretical framework that conceptualises emotions as socio-political, we examine educators’ …
Computer Science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Futures contract (4 works) · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (3 works)