Kommunen

Kommunen

Design for Democracy, Master's Projects

Exploring how municipalities involve citizens. This project is about ”Gjestebud”, and in more general terms about how local democracy can be facilitated. Gjestebud is a method for involving citizens in to municipal processes. The reason it exists is party due to the...
Edmonton Action Lab Government Workshop

Edmonton Action Lab Government Workshop

News & Notes

   Workshop at the newly opened Action Lab with the government of Alberta in Edmonton, on my way home from RSD4. With Alex Ryan, Jess Mullan, Peter Jones, Mugendi M’Rithaa and the folks from Inward Forward. A most pleasant experience! Thanks to all the...

A Cautious Prometheus

Methodologies, News & Notes

 I recently was guided to Bruno Latour’s lecture from 2008: A Cautious Prometheus. The lecture is a brilliant description of design, its increased importance and saturation into the world, its promises and advantages and an interesting argument how it is in...
Systemic Design the Indian way

Systemic Design the Indian way

News & Notes

When generating the list of Gigamapping projects found on the net I came across this one. It is Systemic Design the Indian way, made by students of NID taught by Professor Praveen Nahar. I always found these projects top quality and very interesting. Click the image...
How to make toast

How to make toast

Methodologies, News & Notes

Tom Wujecs TED talk is right up our alley. He manages to explain systems thinking easily with the example of how to make a toast. Tom is a designer and Autodesk Fellow. In SOD we have a similar approach with the “Mapping Me” exercises in SOD. We all have...
Gigamapping in India

Gigamapping in India

News & Notes

One of my students found this wonderful project on the web   >>>>>> . It is great to see that the concept of Gigamapping is adopted and adapted by others, in this case a group of students in India obviously guided by the...

Workshop at Chalmers-2015

News & Notes

  Every January i get a friendly invitation from professor Jaan-Henrik Kain at Chalmers School of Architecture in Gothenburg. These are truly international classes and they learn Gigamapping quickly. Nice to see that systemic design is picking up at some few...