Here you find projects with a societal perspective. You might also look at the Design for Democracy and Design for Planet sections, which are highly relevant to societal design.
Creativity and innovation in large established organisations
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
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,...
Culture based solutions & Losæter: How we work
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...
Traditions and cultural practices for landscape resilience: SOD to investigate edible green commoning at Losæter
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...
Systemic innovation
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...
Exhibition – Our Fjord, Our Future?
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...
PhD thesis: FACILITATING REGENERATION
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...
Designing for Governance in Complexity: ISOD 2025 x UNDP GPCG
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...
Sustainable Transportation system
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
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...
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...
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...
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 //...
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...
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...
Resilient economy
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 – Driving systemic design into Norway’s public sector
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.