Matilda Sandgren Watz

Matilda Sandgren Watz

Biträdande universitetslektor

matilda.sandgren.watz@bth.se

Department of Strategic Sustainable Development, Room H449B

+46 (0) 455-385568

Sustainable Product Development research lab

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Dr. Matilda Watz is a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Strategic Sustainable Development. Her research interests consider organizational decision-making practices for sustainable product development from a requirements development and management perspective. As such, her work focuses on understanding and improving processes, methods, tools and routines for identification, modelling and selection of sustainability criteria and design requirements, and how these can be organized and and used and to guide concept selection and trade-off management for sustainable product development in different types of product development companies.

Towards Sustainable Product Development through a lens of Requirements – M.Watz (2022) PhD thesis presentation: Towards Sustainable Product Development through a lens of Requirements – M.Watz PhD pres. 220602.mp4

Projects & Publications

Ongoing project
Digital Sustainability Implementation Package
Modeldriven Development and Decision Support+
Finished projects
Strategic, Tactical and Operational implementation of Sustainability in the Innovation Process
Sustainability implementation in the product innovation process: SIP – a toolkit and methodology
Selected publications
Watz M. (2020) Using Group Model Building to Foster Learning for Strategic Sustainable Development. Sustainability. 12(20), 8350.
Watz, M., & Hallstedt, S. (2020). Group model building with causal loop diagrams to foster capabilities for sustainable design and product development. Proceedings of the Design Society: DESIGN Conference, 1, 2207-2216. doi:10.1017/dsd.2020.53
Watz, M., & Hallstedt, S. I. (2020). Profile model for management of sustainability integration in engineering design requirements. Journal of Cleaner Production, 247, 119155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119155
Watz, M. (2019). Utilizing requirements to support sustainable product development: Introductory approaches for strategic sustainability integration (Doctoral dissertation, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola).
Siiskonen, M., Watz, M., Malmqvist, J., & Folestad, S. (2019, July). Decision Support for Re-designed Medicinal Products-Assessing consequences of a customizable product design on the value chain from a sustainability perspective. In Proceedings of the Design Society: International Conference on Engineering Design (Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 867-876). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/dsi.2019.91
Recent publications
Adam Mallalieu, Sophie Isaksson Hallstedt, Ola Isaksson, Matilda Watz, Lars Almefelt, "Barriers and enablers for the adoption of sustainable design practices using new design methods – Accelerating the sustainability transformation in the manufacturing industry", Sustainable Production and Consumption, ISSN 2352-5509, Vol. 51, pp. 137 - 158, Elsevier, 2024
Hossein Basereh Taramsari, John McFarren, Matilda Watz, Sophie Hallstedt, Steven Hoffenson, "ASSESSING SYSTEMIC DRIVERS AND BARRIERS TO SUSTAINABLE DESIGN TRANSITIONS", Proceedings of the Design Society, EISSN 2732-527X, EISSN 3, Proceedings of the Design Society, Cambridges Institutes Press, 2023
Carl Nils Konrad Toller Melén, Matilda Watz, "Collaborative Value Exploration for Early Product-Service Systems Design", IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, ISSN 18684238, EISSN 688, Collaborative Networks in Digitalization and Society 5.0, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2023
Adam Mallalieu, Julian Martinsson Bonde, Matilda Watz, Johanna Wallin Nylander, Sophie Hallstedt, Ola Isaksson, "DERIVE AND INTEGRATE SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA IN DESIGN SPACE EXPLORATION OF ADDITIVE MANUFACTURED COMPONENTS", Proceedings of the Design Society, EISSN 2732-527X, EISSN 3, Proceedings of the Design Society, Cambridge University Press, 2023
Sophie Hallstedt, Ola Isaksson, Matilda Watz, Adam Mallalieu, Jesko Schulte, "Forming Digital Sustainable Product Development Support", Proceedings of NordDesign 2022, The Design Society, 2022