The main mission of Systems Oriented Design is to build the designers own interpretation and implementation of systems thinking so that systems thinking can fully benefit from design thinking and practice and so that design thinking and practice can fully benefit from systems thinking.
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15.January 2012: Here is the link to the intrevjew made at our stay in Tallin at the Design & Engineering Joint master program of Tallin University of Technology and the Estonian Academy of Arts Workshop Systems Oriented Design 17-21 October, >>>>>> |
From one of the workshops in Risør 17th October.
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21 st December 2011: Beyond Risør was one of our partners this autumn. Beyond Risør is a regional organization with intentions to reach out globally for the promotion of design. They collaborate with INDEX and the town of Risør is one of the INDEX partner cities. They are very happy about the result of the collaboration and the work by the students. The students were Marit Helgesen, Rebecca Riordan Larsen, Emilie S. Olsen, Ulrikke Pedersen, Linn-Hege Øverstad. Follow the link here >>>>> |
14th December 2011: The final exhibition of the S.O.D. studio was opened on tuesday the 13th December. The review and responces were very positive both from the jury and the partners.
More information and uploads of the projects will follow as soon as possible.
Friday 2nd December: 21 Master students working hard towards the deadline of the 12th December when we will have the final review. The students have worked with seven partners during this semester. The partners are UDI (The Norwegian Office for Immigration) , Beyond Risør (an organization for the promotion of design), Ulstein Power and Control (a sub-company of the shipyard Ulstein Group), Elopak (A big company in packaging) , The Policy Lab (an organization working with peace and security), Kwant Controls (a Dutch company producing ship steering systems), Salto AS (a new company working with quick charging systems for electrical vehicles).
The effort and progress has been very satisfactory and we are looking forward to the final results.
Friday 2nd December: What does it mean to approach the complexity of the world as a designer? How do we work with rich information in a designerly way?
The GIGA-map is a designed artifact. It is obviously not meant to be an accurate record of complex systems “out there”. When working with GIGA-mapping one works with information as a designer in a constructivist way. The information is designed through several iterations, creating a deep knowledge and internalization and building a rich world view of the problematique. This design process is a knowledge building and constructing process where we go through many iterations, from rough sketch to refined and ordered and beautiful information visualization, via dialogues and incubations. The process of refinement is a process where the information is reprocessed and transformed through and by design. Through this process richness is maintained by the juxtaposing and layering of different categories or types of information. Bringing seemingly unrelated information together and finding or better constructing their interrelations is central. Most of the GIGA-maps are process tools and are not meant for communication except between their owners. One becomes an owner by creating them. Clients and partners can be co-owners of these visualized processes but the output is not meant to communicate with external receivers. Only towards the end of the process the information visualization might move towards a communicative mode where it becomes more inclusive to people who have not been involved in the process.
Including experts, stakeholders and clients at early or later stages is a highly effective way of dialogic design and deep involvement.
