Experts

Therese Balslev

Strategic Circular Designer at the Danish Design Center: DDC

Therese is a strategic circular designer at the Danish Design Center working with strategic design-driven approaches to circular economy and the green transition. She has been part of developing DDC’s circular toolkit – Designing Your Circular Transition targeting mainly businesses to get started (or continue) their work on circular initiatives with a holistic and design-driven approach.

She has also co-developed the  Circular Behavior Toolkit, an introductory tool to the intersecting field of circular economy and behavioral design. With the Circular Behavior Toolkit, businesses, organizations, and design studios are provided with a tangible method for working with behavioral design in the context of a circular economy. Its purpose is to get you started actively working with the human factor in a circular context. Therese is part of the international cluster by designaustria of the next generation of designers who are meeting frequently in Vienna, Austria for peer events.

Design is not just about creating products, but about shaping behaviors and systems that align with a sustainable future – both environmentally and socially. By integrating principles of circular economy with behavioral design, we can rethink the way we innovate, produce, and consume.