This thesis is in Norwegian Kreativitet og innovasjon i store etablerte organisasjoner Erfaringsbasert master i Systemorientert Design Arkitektur og Designhøgskolen i Oslo (AHO) 23. desember 2025 Hanna Feng Diesen Veileder Adreas WettreSammendrag Denne...
Reclaiming Experience Masters thesis Lene AareskjoldExecutive Master 2023-2025System Oriented Design Oslo School of Architecture and Design15.01.2026 Prologue This is a journey about moving with a systemic design practice. It is a journey of idealism, workouts,...
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...
Written by Hanne-Cecilie Bjørka <hb@doga.no> published on the D-Box website, autumn 2025. Translated to English by Birger Sevaldson.The article reports on an innovative course in systemic innovation where SOD played a central role. The course was held at the...
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...
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...
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...
Silent Change: Regenerative urbanism at the neighbourhood scale - a living lab approach Franziska GläserExecutive Master of Systems Oriented DesignOslo School of Architecture and Design <fglaeser22@gmail.com>Photo: Tilo Pomsok 2019Municipalities are confronted...
Can the evolution of societal systems be accelerated? A concept for a networked place-based facility for collaborative sense-making Francis D’Silva Executive Master's thesis in Systems Oriented Design Oslo School of Architecture and Design 2024 Abstract The term...
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...
Phase ZeroA practical exploration of the production of architecture from a systemic design perspectiveSystems Oriented Design Master’s thesisIngerid Helsing AlmaasExecutive Master’s Course in Systems Oriented Design Oslo School of Architecture and Design Spring...
Master Thesis: Designing in Complexity: A Systems Oriented Design Approach to Improving the Case Handling of Financial Assistance in Oslo Marcela Urbano, Maria Haukali Nørregaard, Tabea Glahs Executive Master Thesis, 2024The Oslo School of Architecture and Design //...
Photo: Kristiania/Jonatan QuinteroEmma (5) is found under a table at a Christmas party that has gone out of control. “Child Conventions - A Christmas Story” is a story about child welfare, about Emma, about everyone who loves her, who tries to help her, help each...
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...
Cut the Cause! Michalina Fidos 2023 In a welfare society, members thrive without security threats, which in the 21st century are mainly caused by crimes. Criminality, as a wicked problem, shapes and impacts the reality we live in. It is a social and complex...
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...
StimuLab was initiated by the Norwegian government in 2016 and is a collaboration between Design and Architecture Norway (DOGA) and the Norwegian Digitalization Agency. It has adopted an experimental approach in its development and has continuously evolved in line with needs and ongoing evaluations.
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...
A SYSTEMS DESIGN APPROACH TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Doctoral thesis at TU Delft, defended February 2020Jairo da Costa Junior A common approach to deal with a complex problem is to simplify it. Alternatively, this research aims to provide a novel approach to handle...
Doctoral Thesis by Manuela Aguirre Ulloa This thesis explores how public sector organizations introduce new ways of working, such as co-design methods and mindsets, and examines the interactions between emerging co-designing cultures and dominant public sector...
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.
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...
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,...
— 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...
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.
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...