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...
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...
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...
Facilitating regeneration through methodological pluralism A systemic design journey across mountain communitiesHaley Fitzpatrick 2025Oslo School of Architecture and DesignInstitute of DesignSystems Oriented Design Research GroupAbstractTo address the root causes of...
Orchestrating for a sustainable logistics and transport systemTorunn Degenes Master's thesis, Executive Master's in Systems Oriented Design Oslo School of Architecture and Design 2024A fundamental transformation of systems requires changes across many layers, sectors...
Continuous Learning for Sustainable Change. DOGA’s Approach to Systemic Designfor Business Innovation Marianne Lind Master's ThesisExecutive Master's in SODOslo School of Architecture and Design2024Participants during the train-the-trainer sessions, conducting...
Navigating Societal Complexity to Effectively Mitigate Deforestation in the Amazon Relating Systems Oriented Design to the Practice of Earth Innovation Institute Executive Master's Thesis | Systems Oriented Design Author: Bjørn Rask Thomsen The Oslo School of...
PhD ThesisUniversity of Oslo (uio.no)Faculty of Mathematics and Natural SciencesInstitute of Informatics, Sustainability Lab, 2024 The grand challenges of our time, such as Sustainability Transitions (ST) are non-linear, interdisciplinary and systemic. In such...
BioDiveIn is a new prototype installation within the project COLife led by Dr Marie Davidová with Hanane Behnam and Maria Claudia Valverde at the University of Stuttgart. The installation was achieved by S.O.D. experimental design studio teaching at the Faculty of...
Natureact will develop transition plans for three landscapes in Norway to mitigate and adapt to climate risk using nature-based solutions.
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...
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...
SODpost 2021 is a futuristic project containing the work of a third year bachelor cohort at AHO 2021. The students worked in several groups independently but combined their work into a report, SODpost 2021. The report displays a future narrative looking forward to...
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...
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...
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...
This poster “Reaching New Heights” describes the resiliency of a mountain community in the Italian Alps, where systemic innovation is fostered by a real-world laboratory with a set of “design tools for change”, i.e. different types of circularities. The goal is...
The Memmen project presents a concept for home growing of vegetables The report is in Norwegian. The project was done with Baard Røsvik from Semcon as partner. Tutors: Linda Blaasvær, Birger Sevaldson and Andreas Wettre. Project Team:Ida Lahm, Ida Lahm,Clementine...
The Memmen project presents a concept for a more sustainable garbage handling system The report is in Norwegian. The project was done with Baard Røsvik from Semcon as partner. Tutors: Linda Blaasvær, Birger Sevaldson and Andreas Wettre. Project Team:Madeleine...
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...
This project describes how permaculture can be combined with autonomous robotic agriculture. It was a 7-week bachelor project where the students worked together as a team with different design responsibilities. The report is in Norwegian. The project was done with...
Project Team Thomas Wang: Produkt og interaksjonGustav Traberg: Produkt og interaksjonMartin Pangy Rojas Bøckman: Produkt og tjenesteAlvilde Jerpseth: Interaksjon og tjenesteElias Olderbakk Interaksjon og tjenesteGeir Atle Hustoft Tjeneste Tutors: Linda Blaasvær,...
I dette kurset har vi arbeidet med systemorientert design i tverrfaglige team med en felles designoppgave i samarbeid med Salto Ladestasjoner AS. Teamet vårt har hatt deltagere fra alle tre spesialiseringer. Samtidig som teamet har vært samkjørt og utviklet et...
E-route 2017 A project about Electric cars, charging and tourism. Martin Theodor Gravdahl VangeJonas Kolstad CarlsenVilde Rebekka AasenTruc Trung DuongStian Opsahl
Iuvo charging The starting point for this project has been a proposal put forward by Salto Ladestasjoner AS, with Hedda Heyerdahl as the external supervisor. Areas of opportunity that were put forward were electric car charging in the urban environment, solutions for...
The 6th-semester course: “Designing systems”, develops the student’s ability to master the design educational practice focusing on the relationship between the designer, partner and society. An important goal is to see one's design practice within more extensive...
Wood as a Primary Medium to Eco‐Systemic Performance:A Case Study in Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance Doctoral Thesis by Marie DavidováPrague, 2017Czech Technical University in Prague – Faculty of Architecture MOLAB Department Supervisor: doc. Ing. arch....
Christian von Hanno Click the picture for a larger map Salto aims to release a new quick charger for electric vehicles in 2013. This project investigates and maps out the challenges and needs of quick charging. As a result of my findings I...