MSOD
Losæter is a community/place that can feel difficult to understand for first-time visitors. This project explores how a nudging system could make Losæter more welcoming, while helping volunteers and city farmers focus on the activities and care of the place. Written... 
MSOD
Losæter is a vibrant urban farm and community hub, but the harsh cold brings its activities to a halt. This project explores systemic interventions to overcome this “winter coma,” keeping the community connected and active even when the soil freezes.... 
Culture Based Solutions, MSOD, News & Notes
This project explores how frequent volunteers at Losæter can become core members who help keep the community garden running. Through two gigamaps, it maps the past and present experience and explores future ideas for sharing knowledge and responsibility while keeping... 
Culture Based Solutions, MSOD
The focus is placed on the management of cultivated produce, particularly at the end of the growing season, exploring possible solutions for managing and preserving the surplus generated. Written by Max Arroyo Fillat, Product Designer 01 / The Brief Photography of... 
Culture Based Solutions, MSOD, News & Notes
Root Losæter identifies gaps in multi-scalar systems and links external circulations with internal processes. These new connections create synergies that firmly anchor the space with its users and its surroundings, both today and in the future. Written by Merlin Pott,... 
Culture Based Solutions, MSOD, Uncategorized
Losæter is more than an urban farm: it is a place where growing, cooking, learning and sharing come together. This project explores how small, mobile and modular infrastructures can support these practices by bringing materials closer to the people and activities... 
Culture Based Solutions, MSOD
ICEBREAKER is a system that helps first-time visitors understand how Losæter works, find their way through the space, and take their first step into the community. It reduces the social and informational barriers that can make participation difficult for newcomers.... 
Culture Based Solutions, MSOD, News & Notes
The project proposes to improve the learning environment through tools and frameworks. It takes in consideration the perception we had during a few weeks mainly to the community diners and also a full moon event. These gatherings were rich to discover and capture... 
Culture Based Solutions, MSOD, News & Notes
Losæter is more than an urban farm, it is a living community where knowledge, relationships, cultural practices and ecological experiences are continuously created. This project explores how these often invisible values can become more visible, recognized and valued.... 
Culture Based Solutions, MSOD, News & Notes
My project is about creating more opportunities to share at Losaeter, through a collaborative recipes book. Recipes books can be transmitted during generations and have good purposes: learning how to cook, getting to know more about people that wrote in it but also... 
Culture Based Solutions, Design for Planet, Design for Regions, Design for Society, R&D Projects
The project process per case, and how it feeds into the common, cross-case deliverables. The Culture Based Solutions (CbS) project runs for four years from December 2025 until the third quarter of 2028, across four case sites in Norway. At Losæter, the work unfolds in... 
Design for Health, Design for Planet, Design for Regions, Design for Society, News & Notes, R&D Projects, Uncategorized
The SOD unit as part of a consortium led by NORCE, has successfully secured NFR funding for a four year project called Culture Based Solutions (CbS), running from 2025-2028. The project process is detailed here. CbS grew from questions that emerged during the NATURACT... 
News & Notes
When: Thursday 26 February 2026, 16:00–19:00 (CET)Where: A1 Room, AHO, Maridalsveien 29, OsloHosts: SDA Norway, Rethinking Economics Norge, Attac NorgeRefreshments: Light snacks and drinks provided Systemic designers and alternative economics people care about many of... 
About Gigamapping, About SOD, News & Notes
We have just published a new animation that explains Systems Oriented Design (SOD) to a broad audience. Patr (Bing) Leelarasamee created the video during the 2025 studio course Systems Oriented Design – Design for Very Complex Systems at the Oslo School of... 
AHO Course Updates, Design for Planet, Design for Regions, Design for Society, News & Notes, SOD-related courses
After seven weeks of immersive work, three international teams from AHO’s Master course in Systems Oriented Design invite you to their final exhibition. At Gressholmen Island (Sep 3rd) after the 4 initial field excursions, where students had to begin visualising all... 
Bachelor Projects, Design for Democracy, News & Notes, SOD-related courses
As part of the Introduction to SOD course at AHO in 2025, one team team zoomed in on the curly topic of information integrity in Armenia, where geopolitics, media ownership and digital echo-chambers collide. Here is the overview of their project in their own words:... 
Bachelor Projects, Design for Democracy, News & Notes, SOD-related courses
As part of the Introduction to SOD course at AHO in 2025, one team team zoomed in on critical minerals mining in Chile, where geopolitics, media ownership and digital echo-chambers collide. Here is the overview of their project in their own words: Critical minerals... 
AHO Course Updates, Bachelor Projects, Design for Society, News & Notes
For the 2025 rendition of the seven week compulsory Introduction to Systems Oriented Design (ISOD), 60 third year design students tackled two pressing global challenges: ensuring fairness in critical minerals mining, and nurturing information integrity in the digital... 