Rural alpine communities like Hemsedal in Norway, are connected to urban areas like Oslo through historically dependent relationships. Urban areas have benefited from rural resources like water, food, raw materials and recreation while small ski towns like Hemsedal...
Hemsila is a river in Hemsedal a mountain community in Norway. How can we design with the Hemsila river as an asset, rather than a problem, to increase Hemsedal’s resilience and regenerative capacity? By celebrating the organic nature of the Hemsila river and its...
Systems resources of note: The list was started in 2009 and is updated occasionally.
Systemic design spans design practice and thinking to systems practice and thinking. SOD is a bit closer to design practice.
We need to make several small shifts in our understanding to truly grasp systems thinking in general and to start to become systemic designers.
This is the third publication after the bachelor course GK6 at the Institute of Design at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. The theme and case is the food system of Norway. The students did desktop research and fieldwork and engaged with...
The new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) series by Systemic Design Labs ⎟ETH Zurich entitled “Designing Resilient Regenerative Systems” hybridizes sustainability science, systemic design and transformative action. It provides worldviews, tools, illustrations and...
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...
[Photo: Maja Nilsen Stende] The Department of Product Design at OsloMet offers a continuing education course in Practice Oriented Systemic Design in the spring semester of 2022 (10 ECTS, part-time). Are you a practitioner interested in working with change on a...
PhD thesis by Jonathan Romm, AHO 2021Over the past two decades there has been a rise in using service design within healthcare and service design has been identified as particularly appropriate to support adaptations and innovations in the healthcare context through...
With a look to the future, there are huge needs for this kind of design competence – to enable sustainable solutions for businesses, organizations and in policymaking.
These maps are demonstrating how mapping can be useful in registering and analysing information. This map shows an analyses of an interview of eight users of electrical vehicles. (Raoul Koreman, Suzanne Ofte Solås, Tord Stenstadvold, Helene Falstad, SOD bachelor...
Fire Safety: Product service systemA clearly structured map that builds an ordered model of the information. The structure imposes a strongly guided interpretation that provides for some advantages but also comes at a cost. The structure gives the shared picture a...
This "comparative map" compares two different businesses along a timeline with major operations. One company is in the upper half of the map, and the other is in the lower half of the map. The interesting issue here is how the map is easily navigated because of the...
Ship azimuth controlers for Kwant ControlsThis map consists of four different parts that are displayed together to help create a reading of the information from four different perspectives.– Cong Li, HIOA 2016
This map is made to evaluate the systemic impact of a long series of ideas in relation to a range of personas representing different customer types for a bank service. (Anna-Lisa Skoog and Beate Romslo, AHO 2014)Scroll over the image for details. Click to view the...
Map showing a possible future scenario for robottic charching of electrical cars. (Raoul Koreman, Suzanne Ofte Solås, Tord Stenstadvold, Helene Falstad, SOD bachelor studio 2017)Scroll over the image for details. Click to view the full-size image.
These maps demonstrate a balanced use of information types with depicting relations.
Image maps for complex processesMarie Davidova suggest using images instead of abstract symbols. The intention is to add a greater level of detajl, emotions and associations. The use of images will also support sense sharing.From a workshop at the University of...
Ideally, implementation is an integrated part of a systemic process from the beginning. If the whole system is understood well enough, implementation should go by itself or at least very easily. In reality, this is rarely the case. There are always things that are...
A map that is interesting in the way it creates sub fields of layered information sets. ( Linn-Hege Øverstad, Rebecca R. Larsen, Ulrikke Pedersen, AHO 2011)Scroll over the image for details. Click to view the full-size image.
This map sorts and relates information and problematiques according to a system dynamics approach.
Policy support A mixed map of information fields that are related through drawing relational connections. The map is information oriented where "information containers" like lists, statistics, references and diagrams are interrelated within a overreaching network.AHO...
A map that shows the balance between the objects and the relations.
This map was designed to give a total overview of a companies organisation and activities. (For MEDEMA, Julian Guribye and Christian von Hanno, AHO 2011)Scroll over the image for details. Click to view the full-size image.
This map systematises, developes and relates a documentation of a building process of an experimental installation. It worked as the central communication device and as a continuous discussion board. The physical GIGA-map is a team work design tool. It is also...
Three relations-oriented maps: one is developed according to the library of systemic relations and two represent process tools.
These maps use language as relations. They are an expression of reasoning systems rather than an expression of world systems.Scroll over the image for details. Click to view the full-size image.
This map is based on a mix of spatial organization and mapping out of operations.
A map that defines a set of core values (for the Norwegian police) and maps out how these corevalues are related to the global system. (Bente Moen, HIOA 2014)Scroll over the image for details. Click to view the full-size image.