RSD10 Announcement

RSD10 Announcement

  It’s official: RSD10 is November 3-6, 2021. Hosted by TU Delft, the symposium will be held in The Netherlands, and sessions will also be live-streamed. Updates are available on RSD10.org and RSDsymposium.org.

KS endorses SOD

KS endorses SOD

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...

UNESCO Education for Sustainability framework

UNESCO Education for Sustainability framework

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

Practice Oriented Systemic Design

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....

Second SDA Norway gathering

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New SOD PhD

This new PhD position in Systems Oriented Design (SOD) at AHO focuses on better understanding the drivers and mechanisms of sustainability transitions, and on creative, science-based and cooperative ways to implement solutions in the real world by systemic innovation....

First SDA Norway gathering

Earlier this year we announced the first gathering for a Norwegian chapter of the Systemic Design Association (SDA). We were planning it to be held at DOGA, the Norway center for design and architecture. We limited the meeting to 90 participants.  The interest...

New PhD thesis from TU Delft

New PhD thesis from TU Delft

    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...

SDA Norway Gathering

SDA Norway Gathering

    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...

Decoding Empathy

Decoding Empathy

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...

Towards a Circular Denim Industry

Towards a Circular Denim Industry

  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...

New information on the SOD web

New information on the SOD web

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...

Bridging Silos

Bridging Silos

Bridging Silos: A New Workshop Method for Training Silo Busting With SOD, we developed a workshop method to bridge silos between different actors. The method is based partly on gigamapping and was developed under Andreas Wettre's lead.Disconnection between groups...

Tobias Luthe joins SOD at AHO

Tobias Luthe joins SOD at AHO

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...

Master Exchange students in SOD

Master Exchange students in SOD

  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      

Fully funded PhD

Fully funded PhD

  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...

SOD picture book

SOD picture book

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...

Special Issue on Systemic Design from RSD7

Special Issue on Systemic Design from RSD7

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,...

Systems Engineering and SOD

Systems Engineering and SOD

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...

Call for Action

Call for Action

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  >>>>>

Design for Democracy, Course Description

Systems Oriented Design: “Design for Democracy “ Scope: 24 ETCS Institute for Design Oslo School of Architecture and Design   Do you want to take this course? Please see www.aho.no for application. The course runs autumn 2017. Most likely it will be running...

Design for Democracy Tønsberg Seminar

Design for Democracy Tønsberg Seminar

  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...