The SOD Picture Book
The SOD Picture Book is an unfinished book project that collects AHO master’s projects from 2008-2012.
Big research and development project landed.
The Institute of Design just succeeded with an application to a research and industrial development project in collaboration with the advanced maritime company Ulstein Power and Control, part of the Ulstein Group ship yard who are the project owners. Other partners...New systems oriented design studio coming up
In the spring semester of Systems Oriented Design at the Oslo School of Architcture and Design we will work with five new companies and organisations. Gjensidige is one of the biggest insurance companies in Norway. Medema is an international company producing...
Mapping the Research Landscape
A mapping workshop between researchers at the Institute of Design at AHO shows the width and depth of the research going on at the institute. The map needs to be completed with two or three overlays that take up aspects that are not covered. This will turn the mapping...Article on systems thinking
Follow the link below to an article by Don Norman called: Systems Thinking: A Product is More Than the Product. Interesting argumentation and examples that is in line with what we are trying to achieve. Yet the argument on the product being also a service is not new...New paper on sustainability
Systems Oriented Design and SustainabilityBirger Sevaldson, Michael Hensel, Björn FrostellWas presented at the LeNS conference in Bangalore, 29th September. Go to Research / Publications in the menu to the left, to find out more or read more below...RECYCLOMAT on Karl Johan
The Recyclomat was displayed on Oslos’ main street Karl Johans Gate the 18th of September. Here also a link to an article about the RECYCLOMAT http://www.klimaløftet.no/Klimaloftet/Forside/Nyheter-og-aktuelt2/Soppel-er-moro/New paper presented at NES2010
A new paper written by Birger Sevaldson and Tom Vavik was presented at the Nordic Ergonomic Society conference in Stavanger NES2010 Proactive Ergonomics 6th to 8th September: “Exploring Relations Between Ergonomics and Systems Oriented Design”...
RECYCLOMAT at the PSTEREO festival
The RECYCLOMAT was shown at the PSTEREO festival, 20-21. august in Trondheim www.pstereo.no
Risk forecast
Risk warning of oils spill A system to calculate and evaluate risk of oil spill at the Norwegian cost including many types of organisations and stakeholders. Diploma project Student: Adrian Paulsen
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 ...
TIND an electric car
TIND This proposal for an electric car detaches the electric car form its in Scandinavia humble and alternative appearance and creates the medium class car for Scandinavia. It is full of innovations to respond to what is conceived and analysed as Scandinavian life...
Reclaiming urban wood waste
Second Life- Reclaiming urban wood waste This project demonstrates the development of a new material from recycled IKEA tables to re-add both quantitative and qualitative value to the material. Student: Linn Tale Haugen
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...
Recyclomat
Recyclomat Information installation for the Øya Music festivalOslo 2010 A distributed installation to increase awareness of the green profile of the festival and to change behaviour and inform about recycling and wast management. The installation is under...Article on Design Research
A new article taking a systems oriented perspective when looking at the complex field of practice based research in design is just published on the Norwegian design research journal FORMakademisk. You can also find a link directly to this article in the Research...New projects uploaded
The Systems Oriented Design Studio of the spring has reached its end and the final review was on tuesday 8th June The five final projects are uploaded and the two master thesis will be uploaded soon. So stay tuned, great stuff coming up.