Peter Dobers
Biographic Data
| ID | 3491336 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Dobers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Dobers |
| SIGNATURE | DOBERS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6662-0403 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Routledge Handbook of the UN Sustainable Development Goals Research and Policy
Sustainability in transforming societies
Unstable identities
The identity concept has emerged as a key analytical concept in the social sciences in the past decades. In both scientific accounts and everyday use, the identity concept has traditionally been seen as something that individuals possess. This view has however been heavily criticized by a social identity strand of social science, where identity is a matter of a negotiation where different social roles are learned in relations with others. The rel…
Sustainability and Identity – Call for papers to a special issue in Sustainable Development
Sustainability and identity – call for papers to a special issue in Sustainable Development
Slipping into Darkness
Design, lifestyles and sustainability. Aesthetic consumption in a world of abundance
This paper strives for a conceptualization of sustainability, design and contemporary consumption. By sketching out how effective production systems have created an abundance of products, the paper links this development to the aestheticization of society and an increased interest in design. In market economies characterized by profusion, corporations engage in activities filling their offerings with aura, aesthetics, symbols and meaning. In such…
The Cocoon—A Traveling Space
As a graduation project at a design school in Stockholm, a piece of furniture to be used for retreats in the public space was exhibited. It was named ‘The Cocoon’ and was a reclining chair covered with a bubble-like construction made out of cloth and steel. The exhibition was a starting point for a number of journeys. In the years to come, the Cocoon reached museums, exhibition halls, newspapers and magazines throughout the world. In this article…
Stockholm as a Mobile Valley
City names are poetry, and there are few words in the language better able to summon vivid mental pictures. Who cannot see and smell, at mere mention of the name, the London of Dickens, the Paris of De Maupassant, the skyline of New York, the moonlit ruins of Athens, the classic profile of Fujiyama above Tokyo, the seven ancient hills of Rome? Visitors to Stockholm, like its native sons, have been coining thumbnail descriptions for years. One of …
Image of Stockholm as an IT city
The city of Stockholm uses its innovative energy to generate images of itself as an information technology (IT) center.In the 1960s, city management focused on urban planning and administration. By the 1980s and 1990s, however, administrators had turned their attention to actively marketing Stockholm as an IT City and Mobile Valley.The aggressive marketing tactics were partially responsible for the proliferation of cutting-edge IT ventures. The r…
Organizing sustainable development
Policy changes towards global sustainable development have important consequences for how these policies are organized. New and alternative models of organizing tend to emphasize indirect control rather than direct control and supervision. However, our understanding of their effects and consequences is not very well elaborated. The purpose of this paper is to develop an understanding of specific characteristics and effects of organizing alternati…
Organizing sustainable development
Policy changes towards global sustainable development have important consequences for how these policies are organized. New and alternative models of organizing tend to emphasize indirect control rather than direct control and supervision. However, our understanding of their effects and consequences is not very elaborated. The purpose of this paper is to develop an understanding of specific characteristics and effects of organizing alternative en…
Unstable identities
The identity concept has emerged as a key analytical concept in the social sciences in the past decades. In both scientific accounts and everyday use, the identity concept has traditionally been seen as something that individuals possess. This view has however been heavily criticized by a social identity strand of social science, where identity is a matter of a negotiation where different social roles are learned in relations with others. The rel…
Sustainability in transforming societies
Organizing sustainable development
Policy changes towards global sustainable development have important consequences for how these policies are organized. New and alternative models of organizing tend to emphasize indirect control rather than direct control and supervision. However, our understanding of their effects and consequences is not very well elaborated. The purpose of this paper is to develop an understanding of specific characteristics and effects of organizing alternati…
Organizing sustainable development
Policy changes towards global sustainable development have important consequences for how these policies are organized. New and alternative models of organizing tend to emphasize indirect control rather than direct control and supervision. However, our understanding of their effects and consequences is not very elaborated. The purpose of this paper is to develop an understanding of specific characteristics and effects of organizing alternative en…
Image of Stockholm as an IT city
The city of Stockholm uses its innovative energy to generate images of itself as an information technology (IT) center.In the 1960s, city management focused on urban planning and administration. By the 1980s and 1990s, however, administrators had turned their attention to actively marketing Stockholm as an IT City and Mobile Valley.The aggressive marketing tactics were partially responsible for the proliferation of cutting-edge IT ventures. The r…
The Cocoon—A Traveling Space
As a graduation project at a design school in Stockholm, a piece of furniture to be used for retreats in the public space was exhibited. It was named ‘The Cocoon’ and was a reclining chair covered with a bubble-like construction made out of cloth and steel. The exhibition was a starting point for a number of journeys. In the years to come, the Cocoon reached museums, exhibition halls, newspapers and magazines throughout the world. In this article…
Stockholm as a Mobile Valley
City names are poetry, and there are few words in the language better able to summon vivid mental pictures. Who cannot see and smell, at mere mention of the name, the London of Dickens, the Paris of De Maupassant, the skyline of New York, the moonlit ruins of Athens, the classic profile of Fujiyama above Tokyo, the seven ancient hills of Rome? Visitors to Stockholm, like its native sons, have been coining thumbnail descriptions for years. One of …
Design, lifestyles and sustainability. Aesthetic consumption in a world of abundance
This paper strives for a conceptualization of sustainability, design and contemporary consumption. By sketching out how effective production systems have created an abundance of products, the paper links this development to the aestheticization of society and an increased interest in design. In market economies characterized by profusion, corporations engage in activities filling their offerings with aura, aesthetics, symbols and meaning. In such…
Slipping into Darkness
Sustainability and Identity – Call for papers to a special issue in Sustainable Development
Sustainability and identity – call for papers to a special issue in Sustainable Development
Unstable identities
The identity concept has emerged as a key analytical concept in the social sciences in the past decades. In both scientific accounts and everyday use, the identity concept has traditionally been seen as something that individuals possess. This view has however been heavily criticized by a social identity strand of social science, where identity is a matter of a negotiation where different social roles are learned in relations with others. The rel…
Sustainability in transforming societies
Routledge Handbook of the UN Sustainable Development Goals Research and Policy
Computer Science (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Environmental Sustainability in Business (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Sustainability (3 works)