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.
Think outside the books
Master student project 2014 Student: Henriette Sagvolden Marki This project looks at a public library in a multi ethnical subburb of Oslo to develop concepts for the future of such a local public small scale library. The project was one semester long and started with...
Beyond Risør
Marit Helgesen and Emilie Strømmen Olsen In this project, we looked into how an organization in change can expand and take new directions. Our result is a visual organization design and an education programme developed for BeyondRisør. BeyondRisør is a design...
Fire-safety
The ecology of fire and fire-safety Phuc-Tan Nguyen, Pia Fleng Sandal Systems Oriented Design , In collaboration with a...
Disarmament, Demobilisation, and Reintegration (DDR) software
Romain Briant This project is the result of an original collaboration (2011-2012) between AHO and Derek B.Miller, a senior fellow at UNIDIR (United Nations Institute of Disarmament Research) and director of The Policy Lab international research and consulting firm...
The Future is Fiction
Introduction BeyondRisør's first incarnation was as 100% Risør, a relatively small-scale designevent in Risør in 2005. Building on that success, the people behind BeyondRisørinitiated a two-year design project, Beyond Acoustics, which culminated in aspectacular...
PolicySupport.net
This project was developed during a Systems Oriented Design course at AHO, The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, and in collaboration with the Policy Lab. Team: Linda Blaasvær, Manuela Aguirre, Renata MikalauskaitéPolicy Support.net was prototyped as an online...
Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI)
The UDI project explored a new way of navigation in space using gigamapping as a tool to provide new guidelines for new offices.
FLYT
FLYT A service-design project with systems approach, suggesting a series of interventions to create the bus experience of tomorrow. Students: Anne Grønlund and Julie Olssøn
A systems oriented learning process
Story Porcelain lamp A systems approach to rapid learning processes This project investigates a rapid learning process in design, when new materials and technologies have to be learned in a very short period of time, when innovation is at stake and when there is no...
MiniØya
MiniØya Ingunn Hesselberg Exploring the complexity of a music festival for children
Strategies for Self Help
Strategies for Self HelpA networked system using the facilitation of the school as a knowledge hub for resource development and finally to reintroduce people into globalized economy. Winner of: Excellence in innovation (Norsk Designråd) Student: Alice Andreoli ...
Kvalitativ Kollektivtransport
Kvalitativ KollektivtransportA navigation tool for everybody. Everybody got specific needs. Honourable mentioning in World Usability Day 2009 Design Competition (Norsk Dataforening, Norsk Designråd) Student: Gudmund Rebnord
Strategic Circle to Water
Strategic Circle to Water:A socio-economic system for self help. Winner of: Excellence in sustainability (Franzefoss) Winner of World Usability day 2009 Design Competition (Norsk Dataforening, Norsk Designråd Student: Anne Mette Bakke