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

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

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.
Work in progress

Work in progress

The new semester is well started. The tasks are approached through research and mapping of complex relations between large networks of actors and parameters. Students Bo Wikstrøm (left) and Carmen Bruno (right) are presenting their mapping to the clients Marte...

2009 studio reports

Here are the pdfs of 2009 studio chapters.  book_Alice_Andreoli-small.pdf  Book_heidi_borthne_playwithfire.09.06.09-small.pdf   Gudmund-rebnord-bok-liten.pdf  KAPITTEL_BOK_ingunn_hesselberg-liten.pdf  MoveSocialExercisingGame2-small.pdf  rappAnneMette-small.pdf...