Publications
Research for organizations, making sustainable products
Value-proposition design needs strong qualitative research as a foundation. Using a variety of tools, I can provide the necessary insights on any group of people using your products and services.
To Use or to Own. The Austrian School on the Circular Economy
Book Chapter: Kurt R. Leube (Ed.), (2020)The State and its Limits. The Economy and Politics of Freedom for the third Millenium, Van Eck Publishers, Triesen.
Author: Michael Leube
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Full Circle: How I agreed, disagreed and now agree again with my father.
Book Chapter: Hardy Bouillon (Ed.), (2018) In Loyalty to Liberty. Essays in Honor of Kurt T. Leube, Van Eck Publishers, Triesen.
Author: Michael Leube
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Circular Design in der Praxis. Strategien und Konzepte zur Gestaltung der neuen, regenerativen Kreislaufwirtschaft
Book: September 2017
Editors: Sonja Eser & Michael Leube
DE RE SA Publications
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Kreislaufwirtschaft in Design und Produktmanagement. Co-Creation im Zentrum der zirkulären Wertschöpfung.
Book: Springer Gabler, Edition 1, ISBN: 978-3-658-18511-4
Authors: Dominik Walcher & Michael Leube
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Circular Economy by Co-Creation. Preparing Designers and Decision-Makers for Upcoming Transformations
Conference paper: November 2017
Author: Dominik Walcher & Michael Leube
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Open and Closed Loops. How to teach and get students to embrace circular design.
Conference Proceedings: November 2017
Authors: Dominik Walcher & Michael Leube
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Designing for the (Next) Circular Economy. An Appeal to Renew the Curricula of Design Schools.
Conference Paper: The Design Journal 20 (1), November 2017
Authors: Dominik Walcher & Michael Leube
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A Renaissance of Animism. A Meditation on Things and their Makers.
Book Chapter: Chapman, J. (2017). Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Product Design. Taylor & Francis.
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Gender Differences in Online Mass Customisation. An Empirical Consumer Study which considers Gift-Giving.
Journal Chapter: Walcher, D., Leube, M., & Blazek, P. (2016). Gender differences in online mass customization: an empirical consumer study which considers gift-giving. International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management, 7(4), 153-158.
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The Revolving Door. Challenging the Dichotomies of Designer and Researcher for an innovative Furniture Solution.
Conference Proceedings: Kung, S. S., Lam, Y. N., & Lee, Y. (2017). Cumulus Hong Kong 2016: Cumulus working papers: Open design for E-very-thing.
Authors: Michael Leube, Michael Ebner, Susanne Honsa
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I´ts alive! An Empirical Study on Animism and Animacy in Product Design.
Conference Proceedings: 10th International Conference on Design and Emotion, Amsterdam, September 2016
Authors: Michael Leube, Laura Ackermann, Hanna Keimelmayr
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Preparing the Design Students for the Real World. Assessing the Interdisciplinary Group Project at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences.
Conference Proceedings: Nord Design Conference, August 2016
Authors: Michael Leube, Marcus Schranzer
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“Die Boten des Unglücks”: Xenophobie als Symptom Nicht-Itegrativen Designs.
Journal Article: Design Austria Mitteilungen, 04/2016
Authors: Michael Leube
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An Anthropological Meditation on a Circular Economy.
Journal Article: EUropainfo. Das Magazin des EU-Umweltbüros, 01/2016
Authors: Michael Leube
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Vice Versa: The Underprivileged and Design
Conference Proceedings: Fair Design International Conference, Warsaw, 2015
Authors: Michael Leube, Dominik Walcher
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Back to the Roots. On the Positive Feedback between Design and Anthropological Sciences
Conference Paper: The Virtuous Circle, Milano, 2015
Authors: Michael Leube
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Design Education for a World out of Balance: A Case Study
Conference Paper: Design for the Other 90%, Johannesburg, 2014
Authors: Michael Leube, Michael Gugg
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Strategic Styling. A Field Experiment of a theoretical Styling Model for the Improvement of Design Product Perception
Journal Paper: transfer. Werbeforschung & Praxis, September 2014
Authors: Dinko Topic, Michael Leube
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Las Ramblas´ Lamas
Journal Paper: Peace Magazine, 2002
Authors: Michael Leube
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Lamas auf dem Las Ramblas: Ein Besuch bei dem Tibetischem Mönch Palden Gyatso der 33 Jahre in Chinesischen Gefängnissen sass.
Journal Paper: Schweizer Monatshefte für Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur, (82) 2002
Author: Michael Leube
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The Applied Nutrition Project of Eastern Kenya. An Initiative for Reducing Hunger and Malnutrition
Journal Paper: Collegium Antropologium, 25 (2001)
Author: Michael Leube, Isabel Fernandez
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Dinge passieren nicht. Es hängt davon ab wer vorbei kommt. Über den ewigen Aussenseiter Paul Bowles
Book Chapter: contoured. Frankfurter Allgemeine Books, 01 (2000)
Author: Michael Leube
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Ethnology as a Play. A Comparison of two Schools of Thought at the Turn of the Century
Journal Chapter: Collegium Antropologium, (23)1999
Author: Michael Leube
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An Anthropologist Bows on. An Invitation to an Analysis of the Martial Arts as a System of Ritualised Fighting
Book Chapter: UCMAP Publications, 1999
Author: Michael Leube
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