Hemsedal: More than Afterski Chenjing Zhang, Hoanan Sun, Yerin ChoThis project is a masters project from the autumn 2022. It is part of the continuing study on "How to create Hemsedal municipality's sustainable future". Hemsedal is a municipality in Norway, known as a...
How to design processes for building civic agency and democracy by deep diving into Hemsedal’s current political and governance processes and policies regarding empowering citizens’ agency and participation in shaping the way Hemsedal develops?
Janina Sánches Cárdenas 2021 The landscapes we inhabit have shaped our societies. These landscapes have provided us with the resources we need to survive and thrive. Mountain Landscapes have an added level of complexity for the communities that inhabit them but have...
Løft Blikket A masters thesis by Einar Lukerstuen 2021 Advisors: Haydn Evans, Josina Vink and Birger Sevaldson The project lies at the intersection between service- and system-oriented design. Thesis in Norwegian.WHAT: Lift your eyes is a design project that explores...
Master Thesis by Zijun Lin 2020 Panacea Food Lab is a service and systems oriented design diploma that explores healthy diets and food system sustainability in China.Nowadays, China's food system faces significant challenges in the context of rapid urbanization,...
Elizabeth Bjelke Stein & Sigrid Løvlie, 2020 All Connected is a SOD project about food and wellbeing. It was conducted in collaboration with the EAT foundation (https://eatforum.org/).
This is a systems oriented design project about food systems in collaboration with the EAT Foundation. The context of this project is set in Oslo, Norway. Through Design, Systems thinking, and gigamapping methodology, the current food system was mapped out. After...
This is an exploratory project that reframes the housing problem and reimagines the system in the near future – one where the focus of our housing system has moved away from supporting wealth-building to supporting long-term well-being.
Oda Heier & Shivani Prakash 2019 A project exploring how sole proprietors in Norway can escape the trap of debt Abstract Through the collaboration between Stimulab by DOGA (Design & Architecture Norway) and AHO (The Oslo School of Architecture& Design), we...
Emilie Langolf & Marte Rennemo, 2019 Abstract In this semester with Systems Oriented Design we have collaborated with Attendo Care. Together with them, we have done a project that aims to make the residents of Romsås Sykehjem more autonomous.Through observations,...
I seriously want to have fun Theodor Vange Field (2019) Abstract From being a young boy, I remember saving up my weekly allowance to go on a shopping spree at the mall, where I spend a lot of my time. The goal of the shopping spree was to purchase as many new clothes...
Food Systems Lukas Loschner 2019 Abstract EAT is a non-profit startup dedicated to transforming our global food system through sound science, impatient disruption and novel partnerships.Our global food system is failing both people and planet. While 800...
Margrethe Sørensen and Marie Frogner, 2019 Abstract In today’s world, unhealthy food has become a greater challenge to public health than drugs, alcohol and tobacco combined. As consumers, we constantly hear about the importance of a healthy diet. Still, eating...
Food for Thoughts Lene Utklev Gaupen, AHO 2019 Abstract This project is the result of a brief presented by Matdugnaden, a project led by a collaboration between the EAT Foundation,Norwegian Institute of Public Health(Folkehelseinstituttet) & Comte Bureau.The goal...
Angel Lamar Abstract Culture is an emerging social phenomenon formed on many levels by shared experiences and personal assumptions. It has profound roots in people’s backgrounds; it entails their beliefs, experiences, world views and beyond. One thing is understanding...
Ski Systems Design – Build Fjell skis as part of a broader mountain tourism system. Learning about Systemic Design is a challenging endeavour. At The Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO), the study direction “Systems Oriented Design” (SOD) of the Master...
Maria Våge Traasdal Master project 2019 SOD AHO The public sector is complex and multifaceted. Not only is the public sector complex in itself, they are also responsible for managing a complex society. When it comes to growing up, for example, many different policy...
Lieke van Raan was an exchange student at AHO from TU Delft in 2018, where she spent a semester learning SOD. See her project from then here. She went back and did her master thesis with honours degree. This was a SOD project investigating one of the big problems...
— Michael Kassostakis & Eva Hugenschmidt Master's Project The project of the week is a study into adult education by the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Service, NAV. The project is by master students Michael Kassostakis and Eva Hugenschmidt from the design education...
Arotin Hartounian, 2018 There have been two worrying trends developing over the last decade or so. The first is that newspapers and journalistic organizations have continuous financial challenges as the landscape and habits of media consumption are changing rapidly...
News Understandings An explorative project on how to enable different understandingsin news articles All trends point to more personalize experiences, and the news media industry is not the exception. But high personalisation has had an impact on the content we...
This is a discursive project which uses a systemic approach to analyse and propose a feasible service concept with a flipped status quo. In the long term, the ‘service concept’ seeks to reduce the negative systemic effects and reinforce the egalitarian Norwegian domestic culture through improved living conditions.
Lieke van Raan 2019A shift in mindset Today's individualistic and consumer culture, as well as the industries and government, focussed on economic growth, cause waste, pollution and overuse of natural resources, leading to climate change. The exact cause of climate...
Jens Christian Boxaspen, 2018 Democracy has to me, always been one of those words you kind of know the meaning of, but really do not.The definition is straightforward, but how the government really is made up, why bureaucracy is needed, how do people across different...
Anthony Saul Lopez 2018In partnership with Dagens Næringsliv, The main Norwegian business newspaper, this project surrounded us with the imposing question of how to tie together democracy & news. Democracy is a daunting term that many believe in having a grasp on....
@HOME in transition Encouraging asylum seekers towards more self-driven approaches to navigate the unknown they are surrounded with. Niloufar Gharavi n.qaravi@gmail.com Melina Hozhabri Melina.hozhabri@gmail.com Main Supervisors: Linda Blaasvær, Birger Sevaldson...
Thiago Freitas, 2017 This project speculates about new and improved ways in which the UDI (The Norwegian Directorate for Immigration) can work like in the future, with the goal of strengthening workplace democracy. The complexity in which the organization operates was...
Kevin Simmons, 2017 Gjensidige Exchange is a System Oriented Design proposal for a democratic communication platform inside Gjensidige Insurance, Norway's biggest insurance company. Facing a world moving towards digitalization, and changing customer expectations,...
The Wall of Ideas by Tallaat Haddad The problem as defined by the Group EVP of Gjensidige Forsikring ASA Ms. Hege Ask; are the siloes between the departments, and that Gjensidigeneeds to be more agile and less hierarchical.By understanding the...
Virtual Democracy by Renee Melgård Democracy is when citizens participate actively in important political decision-making processes and have equal rights to participate. In Norway we have something called representative democracy, which means that...