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 the field and desktop data they had been exposed to. From right: Bloem Brouwers, Rose Petiton and Esther Sigauke. Photo: Abel Crawford
Through five field excursions within and beyond Oslo, stakeholder workshops, and iterative collaboration with NIVA and Pådriv, the students have explored the complexity of the Oslofjord watershed, upstream, downstream, and across multiple sectors using Systems Oriented Design (SOD) to make visible the issues and possibilities that are often hidden.
DELIVERABLES
They will exhibit and present visual and provocative narratives on the following:
- Present situation: Challenges and opportunities facing the Oslofjord Watershed and how these are related to various actors
- Futures: An undesirable future scenario for 2060 if current trends continue, and a preferable desirable future scenario for 2060
- Interventions that we need to initiate by 2030 to be on track for 2060.
AGENDA
- Opening welcome and introduction
- Group walkthroughs (20–30 minutes each, with Q&A)
- Coffee breaks
- Closing plenary panel with AHO teachers and guests from NIVA and Pådriv
LOGISTICS
Location: SoCentral, Øvre Slottsgate 3, Oslo, Level 5
Date & Times:
Exhibition launch – Friday, 3. Oct 9:30–13:00
Exhibition – Open to the public, weekdays 6.- 17. Oct 8:30-15:30
Language: English
Join us to see how design and architecture students grapple with one of Norway’s most pressing environmental challenges.
KEY MOMENTS OF THE COURSE
Below you can see some of the key moments during the course, from our field excursions to more recent workshops where students collected data, and tested their visual and provocative narratives.
Urban Impact – Upper Akerselva
Here we stopped at Fyrsja in upper Akerselva river to see the quality of the water after it flows from the primary drinking water reservoir Maridalsvannet. From left: Rose Petiton, (not visible x 3) Jonathan Romm, Bing Leelarasamee, Nikolai Yago Conde, Jaakko Hilmola, Esther Sigauke, Yixuan Sun, Hanna Lønnum Brouwer, Pernille Nilson Ramstad and Bloem Brouwers. Photo: Abel Crawford
Urban Impact – Bluegreen roof at Vega Scene
Rooftop of Vega Scene with VAV’s Bent Braskerud: how roofs can absorb rain to ease pressure on combined sewer/stormwater pipes. This was during our Urban impact tour on August 27th.
Reduce flooding and sewer overflow strategy
Here vAV’s Bent Braskerud presented VAV’s strategy to reduce flooding and sewer overflows during our Urban impact tour on August 27th. Photo: Abel Crawford
Rural Impact Tour – Riparian zone and no-till fields
Visiting the Andersen Farm in Vestby to hear about their plans to daylight a buried waterway and reintroduce a meandering waterway. Here you can see their existing riparian buffer zone (left) for interception of fertiliser run off. Photo: Abel Crawford
Veas wastewater treatment tour
At the Veas wastewater treatment plant (Sep 1st) hearing about the pressures that climate change is placing on their treatment capacity in Asker and their plans to respond
Gressholmen Rich Design Space
Sense-checking workshop with NIVA (Sep 3rd) on Gressholmen Island. From left: Yixuan Sun, Bing Leelarasamee. Photo: Abel Crawford
Gressholmen Rich Design Space
Sense-checking workshop with NIVA (Sep 3rd) on Gressholmen Island. From left: Pernille Nilson Ramstad, Jaakko Hilmola, Patrizia Maria Landerl, Stella Wan Yee Tan, Melissa Wen Hui Leem, Maren Helen Sævold (NIVA). Photo: Abel Crawford
Collecting feedback
Testing draft exhibition materials with NIVA, Pådriv, and other stakeholders at the Sense-checking workshop (Sep 19). From left: Anne Haabeth Rygg (Pådriv), Bing Leelarasamee, Nikolai Yago Conde. Photo: Abel Crawford
Post workshop discussion
Panel discussion after the Sense-checking workshop (Sep 19). From left: Jørgen Skatland (DOGA), Helena Reierskog Harborg (NMBU), Saskia Trubbach (NIVA), Chris James, Anna Linstad (Pådriv), Anne Haabeth Rygg (Pådriv), Maren Helene Sævold (NIVA), Cecilie Baann (NIVA) and Line Johanne Barkved (NIVA). Photo: Abel Crawford.
Testing draft exhibition materials with NIVA, Pådriv, and other stakeholders at Sense-checking workshop (Sep 19). From left: Bing Leelarasamee, Saskia Trubbach (NIVA), Helena Reierskog Harborg (NMBU), Cecilie Baann (NIVA), Anne Haabeth Rygg (Pådriv). Photo: Abel Crawford
Presented by:
Our partners:
The Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) is an environmental research organisation doing research, monitoring, assessment and studies on freshwater, coastal and marine environments in addition to environmental technology. They are currently working on an EU Horizon project on innovative governance of land and sea.
They have connected the students to key desktop resources and subject matter experts, as well as bringing their own expertise.
Pådriv is a cross-sector network platform focused on sustainable urban development in Oslo, serving as an arena where citizens, businesses, public bodies and researchers co-create initiatives.
They connected us to stakeholders and desktop resources, and joint at key milestones for the course. They are interested in how the student work will be able to contribute to their multi-stakeholder fjord-restoration initiative, Fjorden vår will be directly contributed to through this course module.
Supported by:
SoCentral is a non-profit, employee-owned community for social innovation at Sentralen. They convene partners across sectors and co-pilot collaborative projects on city challenges. They’re hosting our studio and exhibit as an experiment in member engagement, seeing what conversations and interactions it catalyses, while connecting the work to Fjorden Vår.