News & Notes

A new Executive master in Systems Oriented Design is launched at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design.

Radical innovation in municipal planning The Norwegian Association for Local and Regional Authorities (KS) is using Systems Oriented Design methodologies in their work. Their "Partnerskap for radikal innovasjon" is a program in KS geared towards radical innovation in...

Report's eight key competencies can be applied as a SOD framework In 2017 UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) published their report on how education needs to change and develop to prepare us for the big changes we face to reach a...

Practice Oriented Systemic Design Oslo Metropolitan University offers a continuing education course in Practice Oriented Systemic Design – «EXTENDED APPLICATION DEADLINE 4 JANUARY 2021». In this course, you will learn to design concepts for and in complex projects....

Manuela Aguirre was given an interesting challenge for her PhD trial lecture.

    Jairo da Costa Junior from Brazil defended his doctoral thesis at the Technical University of Delft (TU Delft), the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY Embracing the complexity of energy challenges in...

    For the first time we bring together everybody in Norway interested in Systems Oriented Design, or other forms of systemic design. People from abroad are welcome too.We establish the Norwegian branch of the Systemic Design Association through a gathering...

A wonderful deep lecture lecture by Dr Joseph Tainter, the author of the book Collapse of Complex Societies.

The System of Empathy Empathy has almost become a cliché in the design world. Maybe understanding empathy better would provide more robust content to the notion of empathy and to the design work claiming it to be central in user-oriented design. At the National...

  Lieke van Raan was an exchange student at AHO from TU Delft in 2018, where she spent a semester learning SOD. She came to AHO to learn Systems Oriented Design. See her project from then here. She went back to TU Delft and did her master thesis with honours...

Here are some updates on the SOD web. Since the last update a lot of things have happened. We had a very successful RSD8 at IIT institute of design , Chicago. Updates will follow and the proceedings will come online on systemic-design.net I reorganised the gigamapping...

We are happy to announce that Tobias Luthe has joined the SOD group at Oslo School of Architecture and Design in a part time 50% position. Tobias is professor dr. at ETH Zürich, Dept of Civil, Env. and Geomatic eng. Institute for Spatial and Landscape...

  If you want to study SOD and you are in one of the Exchange schools for AHO you can apply as an exchange student. The deadline for applicaiton is 1st April. To apply go to https://aho.no/en/studier//430-none      

  Want to join the Oslo SOD team? We are happy to announce a fully funded PhD possition in Systems Oriented design at AHO. You will be working closely to the SOD team at AHO and the Oslo environment. You must be willing to move to Oslo for the period of four...

Digging in the archive I found the old SOD picture book, a book that was never finished. It seems still worth being made accessible. It is a document of the early years of SOD. The book project was abandoned in 2010 for various reasons. Bear with the lack of...

The sixth special issue in the academic design research journal Formakademisk was launched. This FormAkademisk issue comprises articles developed from presentations at the seventh Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD7) symposium, held at Politecnico di Torino,...

H-SEIF BookletH-SEIF is a research project that aims at developing new methods for human-centred systems engineering. H-SEIF stands for Human Systems Engineering Framework. The project is initiated by the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN) and Semcon. The...

Open Letter to the Design Community: Stand up for Democracy Ezio Manzini and Victor Margolin   Read more about our course and R&D on Design for Democracy here  >>>>>

  19th April We were arranging a seminar as a follow up for the municipality of Tønsberg. About 25 busy staff attended the seminar which we found wonderful. In the middle sits Cathrine Heisholt who has been following the project closely and Geir Viksand, director...

Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD5) 2016 Symposium Chair & Editor: Peter Jones, OCADU The RSD5 symposium took place October 14-15, 2016, at OCAD University and MaRS in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Systemic Design Research Network (SDRN)...

This autumn we started our first Design for Democracy course! We (or let us say the students) are well on their way after a week of boot camp in Tønsberg, a small town south of Oslo. The municipality of Tønsberg is our main partner and the aim of the project is to...

  13th September 2016 Great interrest for the AHO / SOD corner of the innovation summit expo at HBV (University College of South East Norway) at their campus in Kongsberg, one of the technological hubs in Norway. The summit was attended by prominent participant...