Håkon Fyhn

Håkon Fyhn is an Associate Professor at the Department of Geography and Social Anthropology at NTNU. He leads the NRC-funded AUTOWORK project investigating robotization and digitization in industries, and is Head of the EMERGE Centre exploring emerging educational technologies. His PhD (2011) focused on 'Meeting with presence' in product development and anthropology.

Research areas include anthropology of technology, robotization, presence in mediated interactions, control room societies, collaborative processes in work organizations, and climate policy. He has conducted studies on craftsmanship in construction, energy retrofitting challenges, and organizational culture in space operations. Current projects examine automation's societal impact and innovative learning environments.

Key outputs include studies on safety management's bureaucratic challenges, classroom integration of real-world experiences, and digitalization's sociotechnical implications. He has contributed to policy analyses on low-carbon transitions and authored textbooks on classroom laboratory methodologies. His work bridges social sciences with technical fields through ethnographic and collaborative approaches.

Teaching focuses on applying anthropological methods to technological and organizational contexts. Collaborations include interdisciplinary projects with industry partners and international research networks like CURE (studying resistance to energy policies) and BIAS (AI ethics in labor markets).