PLATE Conference 2025

The 6th Product Lifetimes and the Environment Conference

Aalborg University, Denmark, 2nd – 4th of July 2025

Thank you for a great conference!

PLATE2025 is now over and we appreciate the fruitful discussions and relevant paper presentations that were shared during the conference. You can find the published PLATE2025 here: https://doi.org/10.54337/plate2025.

The next PLATE conference will take place between 28 June – 1 July, 2027 at the The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEEE) Lund University, Sweden.

Highlights from the PLATE2025 Conference:

Lone Malmborg, Head of Department
Linda Nhu Laursen, Head of Research AAU Design Lab
Keynote, Henrik Mathiassen – CEO and Founder of DesignPeople
Keynote, Laëtitia Vasseur HOP Executive Officer and expert on Circular Economy- –
Keynote, Wojtek Sitarz – Policy Officer at the European Comission
Jeroen Van Laer, Policy Officer at the European Commission
Alicja Kuzmycz and Charlotte Harding – winne rof best student paper
Next PLATE conference at Lund University, 21-24 June, 2027
PLATE2025 Thematic sessions:
  1. Design for longer lasting products and buildings
    Chairs: Prof. Conny Bakker, Assoc. Prof. Matthew Watkins, Prof. Anne Toppinen, Dr. Angelina Korsunova, and Anne Viljanen
  2. Enduring consumption
    Chair: Prof. Ruth Mugge
  3. Business models for longevity
    Chairs: Assoc. Prof. Amalia de Götzen and Assoc. Prof. Luca Simeone
  4. Repair, care and maintenance
    Chairs: Asst. Prof. Jens Dorland and Assoc. Prof. Michael Søgaard
  5. Product lifetime modelling
    Chairs: Prof. Massimo Pizzol, Prof. Anne Peirson-Smith and Assoc. Prof. Alana James
  6. Policies for longer lifetimes
    Chairs: Assoc. Prof. Jessika Richter and Assoc. Prof. Carl Dalhammer
  7. Sufficiency and design for less
    Chair: Assoc. Prof. Lise Magnier
  8. Rebound effects and critical views on product durability
    Chairs: Dr. Irene Maldini, Prof. Ingun Klepp, Dr. Kirsi Laitala, Dr. Elénore Maitre-Ekern, and Dr. Harald Wieser
  9. Education, tools, and games for product lifetimes
    Chairs: Dr. Katherine Whalen, Dr. Isabel Ordóñez, and Johannes Scholz
  10. Materials and longevity
    Chairs: Assoc. Prof. Linda Nhu Laursen, Prof. Carla Langella and, Dr. Romina Santi
  11. Clothing, footwear, and accessories longevity
    Chairs: Prof. Kirsi Niinimäki, Prof. Katherine Townsend, Dr. Alexandra Sherlock, Assoc. Prof. Cosette Joyner Martinez, and Assoc. Prof. Mary Ruppert-Stroescu
  12. Digital longevity
    Chair: Prof. Colin Fitzpatrick
  13. Other PLATE related subjects
    Chairs: Assoc. Prof. Linda Nhu Laursen and Postdoc Andreas Kornmaaler Hansen

  • After submission, papers or extended abstracts were subject to an initial screening to determine whether it fit the scope of the thematic sessions. If it was within scope, a double-blind review process commenced until January.
  • By the end of January, the authors were notified whether the PLATE2025 chairs, based on the reviews received, chose to either reject, accept, or conditionally accept the paper for a final submission. See also our PLATE2025 Timeline for an overview of the process.
  • The final submission deadline was 26th of March, 2025. The final paper upload sometimes received final, minor comments from the committee to ensure that the authors have responded reasonably to the comments received from the reviewers.
  • Both regular papers and extended abstracts was peer reviewed and is considered two separate submission types. Accepted regular papers and accepted extended abstracts both got a DOI in the proceedings.

Papers are limited to 2500 – 3000 words not including title, abstract, and references. Extended Abstracts should have up to 1000 words not including title, and references. Please avoid any affiliations as the initial submissions must be anonymous. After a double-blind peer-review process, authors of accepted contributions may be asked to further develop and submit a final camera ready version.
The papers need to follow the provided word template available for download here:

PLATE_Full-Paper_Template_2025Download
PLATE_Extended_Abstract_Template_2025Download

We prioritised contributions from different authors preferring no more than two extended abstracts / regular paper submissions by the same authors.

Regular papers and extended abstract all got a DOI and was published open access (CC-BY-4.0) in a conference proceeding by AAU Open publishing.
For further details and updates, please browse the conference website https://www.plateconference.org/ or contact PLATE2025@create.aau.dk

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