Sustainable lifestyle changes due to obesity are difficult to achieve regardless methods used. We need to know more about the lived experience of obesity and older persons’ needs for support to make a sustainable change. This paper focuses on the need-finding process in designing support for a sustainable lifestyle change. Multistage focus group interviews were conducted with persons aged 61–72 living in Northern Sweden. A participatory and appreciative reflection and action (PAAR) approach was used in the group-sessions. Probes were used to increase reflections and achieve a deeper knowledge about the participants’ needs of support. Data were analysed using qualitative thematic content analysis. Our findings revealed that to be able to succeed with a lifestyle change a focus has to be on a converted way of thinking, managing vulnerability, and achieving an emotional balance. To achieve a sustainable lifestyle change due to obesity in the third age the focus has to be on a health identity instead of a weight identity. Personalised support with enjoyable physical activities should be designed and developed. Strategies for emotional balance based on autonomy and self-empowerment must be included. This knowledge is important when designing support for sustainable change.

No abstract

The concept of organizational development is of essential importance in order to maintain a sustainable industry; this can be seen in numerous articles and research projects presented in scientific magazines, books and conferences every year. In

Industrial design engineering combines technical rationality and reflective practice, to support students' reflection on their design process a workbook approach has been developed. The workbook approach guides students to reflect on open-ended design projects through cycles of reflections. A typical workbook consists of both written text, i.e., literature reviews and methods employed, and sketches and photos illustrating the process and its results. The workbook approach is currently implemented in five compulsory and several elective courses at Industrial Design Engineering (IDE). During 2020-22 a project was performed to evaluate the implementation of workbooks and get feedback from both active students, alumni and the faculty. Results show that workbooks support students' self-regulated learning, and the workbook's guided reflection is a valuable tool for reaching higher levels of learning in design. However, it seems that there is a need for a workbook framework to support both teachers and students in how to use the workbooks throughout the programme.

This paper describes a collaborative process of designing a concept of a future factory, in a three-year research project called "the Future Factory". In the paper we aim at presenting our approach and some results from the same. We argue for a resumed discussion on future work organizations, and do so through the project aim of designing a conceptual future factory. The Future Factory project may be considered somewhat different from traditional research projects, since it includes a design team consisting entirely of women. The reason for this is that Swedish manufacturing industry is heavily male-dominated in numbers, and solutions based only on their ideas thus risk being incomplete or unilateral. The approach of the project encompasses multiple perspectives of values of industrial organizations. The main method has been participatory workshops sessions, in which we have explored contents of future factories together with our stakeholders. Our joint proposal includes aspects of gender awareness, participation in change processes, control of work situations; continuous learning and development in order to become both an attractive and efficient future factory.