Minna Laurell Thorslund

I joined the Department of Media Technology and Interaction Design (MID) at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)as a PhD student in spring 2020. Being a member of the MID Sustainable Futures Lab, my research is within the area of socio-technical transition studies. I’m specifically interested in developing methods to inspire people to take collective action in the urgent and necessary transition towards a low-carbon society. My supervisors are Daniel Pargman and Elina Eriksson. During 2020-2023, I was part of Event Horizon, a research project funded by the Swedish Energy Authority.

I hold an M.Sc in Human-Computer Interaction with Ergonomics from UCLIC and a B.Sc in Psychology, both from University College London, UK. My professional experience prior to joining KTH includes various positions within user experience, digital communication and content strategy – see LinkedIn for my full professional CV.

News

	I've coauthored a paper for ICT4S 2023 with Ian Brooks and Aksel Biørn-Hansen, called “Tech4Bad in the oil and gas industry: exploring choices for ICT professionals”. Read more about it here.
	On June 5-7 2022 I presented a paper about counterfactual methods from the Event Horizon project at NESS 2022 - Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference: Emergency and transformation in Gothenburg.
	On June June 14-16 2022, I presented a paper about how to use future scenarios to evaluate how repair of ICT has been treated in the ICT4S literature at ICT4S 2022.
	On October 10-12 2022, I co-organised a workshop at NordiCHI 2022 on Designing for collective survival: game-based design fiction for the apocalyptic world.
	On 29 August to 2 September 2022, I co-organised a workshop at SICT 2022, a doctoral school on sustainable ICT, using fictional abstracts: Rethinking the Roles of Information and Communication Technologies in the Anthropocene