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...
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Mediation of research
H-SEIF: Human Systems Engineering Innovation Framework Research mediation and popularisation are highly wanted and supported by the Norwegian Research Council and other funding bodies. The research popularised and presented here is a summary of two sequential research...
Rachel Lilley interviewing Jonathan Romm and Andreas Wettre
In this video, Dr Rachel Lilley is interviewing Professor Jonathan Romm and Executive Masters Chair Andreas Wettre. They are talking about the experiences of practising Systems Oriented Design in Teaching and education. The conversation is from November 2024. (Video...
RSD13 Oslo Keynotes
The RSD13 symposium had both an online part and an onsite part at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. We had some great keynotes spurring the discussion on the main theme: Rivers of conversations.Designing to Connect—A social systemic perspective Keynote,...
Silent Change
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...
Moss Rock City
MOSS ROCK CITYSTEPS TO A PLURIVERSAL ECOLOGY OF SYSTEMS ORIENTED URBAN DESIGNMaster's Thesis Philip Dixon Sandberg Executive Master's Thesis in Systems Oriented DesignOslo School of Architecture and Design2024ABSTRACT This master thesis delves into the multi-layered,...
RSD13 Oslo Keynotes
RSD13 in Oslo, online, and RSDX was a unique experience lasting over two weeks and presenting hundreds of presentations and over 1000 joining. The onsite event at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design was a unique one-track event with no recording or streaming....
Social Systems Accelerated
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...
Deadline for executive master’s is closed
We have over 40 applicants for 20 seats in the SOD Executive Masters. The deadline has passed. However, if you have a special interest or if you would like to join one or two of the modules only please contact Andreas Wettre: andreas.wettre@aho.no
Continuous learning for Sustainable Change
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...
Mitigate Deforestation in the Amazon
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 Zero
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...
Rivers of conversations continues to flow
RSD13 has ended. It was a 14 days long series of events one following and interweaving with the other, and each very pleasant and successful. All the participants I talked to were very happy. There was only one comment from one of my colleagues that there were a...
Improving the case handling of financial assitance
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 //...
ZIP Clustering
Espen Strange Master Thesis SOD executive Master Oslo School of Architecture and Design, 2024 Scroll down to read the whole thesis.Partial Abstract Waves of change are transforming the future of the Ocean Industries through digitalisation and decarbonisation and...
RSD13 is close
Eleven years ago the first Relating Systems Thinking and Design symposium was held at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO). This year it is back at AHO. Since its start, it has grown and developed a lot and is now a series of events, both online and...
Barnekonvensjoner
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...
Entanglement of Systemic Design and Sustainability Transitions
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...
RSD13 Oslo Call for Contributions
The next RSD symposium is in Oslo in October with the themeRivers of conversations Read more about the themes and deadlines for contributions:
Cut the Cause!
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...
Book presentation at CGR
This video shows my book presentation at the annual Common Ground Research Network annual conference in Hawaii. Unfortunately remote.
Workshop at KISD
Professor Birger Sevaldson was invited to Cologne in April 2023 to run a 4 day gigamapping workshop at KISD, Köln International School of Design, together with Professor Philipp Heidkamp. A most enjoyable experience with an international group of students of both the...
RSD12 Call for contribution
RSD12 is distributed in a number of hubs and goes both real-life and remote. Stay tuned to rsdsymposium.org to learn moreRSD12 Symposium: Entangled in Emergence RSD12-ONLINE + RSD12-HUBSORGANISED BY GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, USA OCTOBER 6-20, 2023
RSD12 coming up!
Relating systems Thinking and Design 12 (RSD12), will be a different conference. RSD12 has two components: RSD12-ONLINE and RSD12-HUBS. RSD12-ONLINE is a 15-day international event. RSD12-HUBS are 1–3 day symposia that prioritise locality and in-person sessions. The...
BioDiveIn installation
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...
NEW RESEARCH GROUP AT OSLOMET AND PHD-ANNOUNCEMENTS
by Ingelin Mari ÅmoWe have finally launched the research group Systemic Design and Sustainability, which is organised through the Department of Product Design at OsloMet. Among the participants in the research group, we have PhD students, master's students, and...
Designing Complexity book nominated
The "Designing Complexity" book has been selected as a finalist for the 2022 Common Ground Research Networks Publishers Prize.The annual Publishers Prize recognizes authors and series editors of exceptional books that were published within the last year by Common...
Christopher Alexander and Systemic Design
Christopher Alexander and Systemic Design by Hans Kaspar Hugentobler Original text for Systemsorienteddesign.net 2nd March 2023.Featured image by Jonathan Player for The New York TimesChristopher Alexander was a prominent figure in the fields of architecture and...
Playing with Real World Labs
By Tabea Glahs and Maria Nørregaard Tabea Glahs and Maria Nørregaard are students at the SOD executive master program while working with service design in Oslo Municipality. Here they report on experiments with a more playful approach to Real-World Labs.Playing with...
Seminar on the book “Designing Complexity”
DOGA invites to a seminar about the book "Designing Complexity" by Birger Sevaldson. The seminar will be live at DOGA. The author and a group of practitioners with experience from application of systemic design will speak. You need to register to the event by...
























