


Birger Sevaldson
AHO Profile Author, Web Editor Dr Birger Sevaldson [dipl NCAD PhD] is a professor at the Institute of Design at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO), Institute of Design. He is trained as an interior architect and furniture designer. He has been practising...
Cheryl May
Systemic Design Association Web Team Cheryl May is a consultant and doctoral researcher at London South Bank University. Her research is focused on prosocial leadership within Canadian social purpose organizations. She is a four-time executive director who has...
Dr. DEFNE SUNGUROĞLU HENSEL
Finalized 2017 Institution: Oslo School of Architecture and DesignMain supervisor: Birger Sevaldson Doctoral Research Project CONVERGENCE: MATERIAL ADAPTATION AND INFORMATICS IN ARCHITECTURE Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel [MSc EmTech AA Dipl RIBA II] (born 1979, İstanbul,...
Haley Fitzpatrick
Project: 2021-2024 PhD Fellow Regenerative and resilient mountain communities Haley Fitzpatrick is a PhD student in Systems-Oriented Design researching co-creative pathways for regenerative and resilient mountain communities. Before starting her PhD, she worked as an...
Helge Tor Kristiansen
Project: 2020- PhD Fellow Helge Tor Kristiansen is PhD candidate financed by a maritime project at HiALS who is based at AHO for the...
Dr. Jairo da Costa Junior
Finalised Jairo da Costa Junior defended his doctoral thesis at the Technical University of Delft (TU Delft), the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE). The main supervisor was Professor Jan-Carel Diel. Doctoral research project A SYSTEMS DESIGN APPROACH TO...
Dr. Manuela Aguirre Ulloa
Finalised 2020 Thesis – Transforming public organizations into co-designing cultures: a study of capacity-building programs as learning ecosystems Doctoral Research Project Transforming Public Organizations into Co-designing Cultures As a PhD fellow at The Oslo School...
Dr. Marie Davidova
Finalised 2018 Institution: Czech Technical University in Prague – Faculty of Architecture MOLAB DepartmentMain Supervisor: Miloš FloriánSecondary supervisor: Birger Sevaldson Final Doctoral Thesis WOOD AS A PRIMARY MEDIUM TO ECO-SYSTEMIC PERFORMANCE: A CASE STUDY IN...
Thomas Slensvik
Project started: 2022 PhD Fellow Disruptive Innovation Through Military Design Thomas Slensvik is a lecturer and officer at the Norwegian Defence University College and a PhD fellow at AHO who researches how SOD might help military operations understand and interact...
SOD Origins: Systemic Design as a Field of Possibilities
The idea of systemic design as a pluralistic field opens the possibilities to several different approaches to systemic design that are not only allowed but encouraged.

Foundations: The Systemic Design Movement
Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD2) 2013 Symposium