Bård Torvetjønn Haugland
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Bård Torvetjønn Haugland
@bardhaugland.bsky.social
Science & Technology Studies (STS) scholar. Post-doc at NTNU, researcher at SINTEF Digital.

Research on carbon capture and storage, automated vehicles, and other lofty visions.
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New paper out on #CCS in waste incineration. With expected large increases in waste incineration for the coming decades, we urgently need to address emissions from #waste-to-energy plants. 🏭
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May 9, 2025 at 10:28 AM
In his 1949 essay, Thinking like a mountain, Aldo Leopold related how dying wolves and starving deer helped him understand nature's order. In this essay, I ask what it means to think like a road, and provide some methodological pointers for operationalising this otherwise abstract notion.
Thinking Like a Road: A Companion Piece to ‘Framing Intelligent Transport Systems in the Arctic’
At the Engineering Interventions workshop organized by the International Network of Engineering Studies (INES) in November 2024, Bård Torvetjønn Haugland, Marianne Ryghaug, and Roger A. Søraa were ...
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March 18, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Ah, history: In 2000, when the Labour and Conservative parties voted to support gas power in Norway, a key figure in a Norwegian E-NGO shouted “You’re banished by the environmental movement for ten years! You are international CO2 bandits, we will fight you with any means necessary!" at them.
December 18, 2023 at 10:41 AM
Shout-out to Tore Berge for correctly diagnosing the problems of electric vehicles back in '95: “The discussion regarding EVs corrupts the whole debate about the problems of car traffic. We need new policies for area use and traffic reduction.”
December 11, 2023 at 11:33 AM
Car-free cities or automated vehicles? I discuss how proponents of these two futures try realising part of their desired future in the present day, as to promote its future actualisation. Successful prefiguration requires employing means that reflect – but are distinct from – the desired ends.
The future is present: Prefiguration in policy and technology experimentation
The article adds to the theorisation of temporality within sustainability transitions by introducing the concept of prefiguration. Through two transpo…
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December 11, 2023 at 10:50 AM