How to design processes for building civic agency and democracy by deep diving into Hemsedal’s current political and governance processes and policies regarding empowering citizens’ agency and participation in shaping the way Hemsedal develops?
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Design for Democracy
Dagens Næringsliv
Arotin Hartounian, 2018 There have been two worrying trends developing over the last decade or so. The first is that newspapers and journalistic organizations have continuous financial challenges as the landscape and habits of media consumption are changing rapidly...
The necessary points of view
Anthony Saul Lopez 2018In partnership with Dagens Næringsliv, The main Norwegian business newspaper, this project surrounded us with the imposing question of how to tie together democracy & news. Democracy is a daunting term that many believe in having a grasp on....
Norwegian Government Map
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...
Stories of the Future
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...
Report: Gentrification 2.0
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.
News Understandings
News Understandings An explorative project on how to enable different understandingsin news articles All trends point to more personalize experiences, and the news media industry is not the exception. But high personalisation has had an impact on the content we...
Designing for Democracy
Thiago Freitas, 2017 This project speculates about new and improved ways in which the UDI (The Norwegian Directorate for Immigration) can work like in the future, with the goal of strengthening workplace democracy. The complexity in which the organization operates was...
Gjensidige Exchange
Kevin Simmons, 2017 Gjensidige Exchange is a System Oriented Design proposal for a democratic communication platform inside Gjensidige Insurance, Norway's biggest insurance company. Facing a world moving towards digitalization, and changing customer expectations,...
How to Practice the Culture of Empathy?
Melina Hozhabri Design for Democracy, Systems Oriented Design 2016 Oslo School of Architecture and Design Collaborator: The Municipality of Tønsberg All men and women are to each other the limbs of a single body, each of us drawn from life’s shimmering essence,...
UDI Cloud
PERSONAL STORY by Niloufar Gharavi In the first phase, in particular, this project intends to investigate how a schooling and mentoring system could be implemented in the camps during the waiting time, to develop the inhabitants’ competencies or teach them new skills...
Virtual Democracy
Virtual Democracy by Renee Melgård Democracy is when citizens participate actively in important political decision-making processes and have equal rights to participate. In Norway we have something called representative democracy, which means that...
Wall of Ideas
The Wall of Ideas by Tallaat Haddad The problem as defined by the Group EVP of Gjensidige Forsikring ASA Ms. Hege Ask; are the siloes between the departments, and that Gjensidigeneeds to be more agile and less hierarchical.By understanding the...
Future Fest
Christopher Pearsell-Ross Design for Democracy, Systems Oriented Design 2016 Oslo School of Architecture and Design Collaborator: The Municipality of Tønsberg Future Fest is a collaborative, open-platform festival bringing together members of the public with cultural,...
Folketråkk
Marie Løken Design for Democracy, Systems Oriented Design 2016 Oslo School of Architecture and Design Partner: Doga, Ingvil Aarholt Hegna The semester’s topics has been design for democracy. People tend to forget that democracy is more than just voting. Democracy is...
Design for Democracy: Make Democracy Great Again
Aslak Sødal Design for Democracy, Systems Oriented Design 2016Oslo School of Architecture and DesignCollaborator: The Municipality of Tønsberg How can we enable more people to keep up and stay engaged with what’s happening in their local communities, both politically...
A Part of the Whole
Marthe Christensen Design for Democracy, Systems Oriented Design 2016 Oslo School of Architecture and Design Collaborator: The Municipality of Tønsberg Tønsberg is a municipality and a city in Norway. This city has been inhabited since the middle ages and is...
Report: A Bridge Between People
Designing for the emergence of new connections between elderlies & youth
Kommunen
Exploring how municipalities involve citizens. This project is about ”Gjestebud”, and in more general terms about how local democracy can be facilitated. Gjestebud is a method for involving citizens in to municipal processes. The reason it exists is party due to the...