Books & Other Publications
RSD Special Issue. SDA members Marie Davidova and Ben Sweeting, with Birger Sevaldson, co-edited two special issues of Form Akademisk with ten papers developed from the proceedings of RSD6 and RSD7.
News & Notes
The sixth special issue in the academic design research journal Formakademisk was launched. This FormAkademisk issue comprises articles developed from presentations at the seventh Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD7) symposium, held at Politecnico di Torino,... 
Design for Democracy, Master's Projects
Full-size image Thiago Freitas, 2017 This project speculates about new and improved ways in which the UDI (The Norwegian Directorate for Immigration) can work like in the future, with the goal of strengthening workplace democracy. The complexity in which the... 
Books & Other Publications, PhD Projects
COnvergence: Material adaptation and informatics in architecture PhD thesis, Defne Sunguroglu Hensel 2017 Adaptive design is an architectural process by which available materials and local environments are adapted to changing design requirements. In traditional...News & Notes
How simple can you explain systems thinking? Russ Ackoff probably hits a record here {youtube}OqEeIG8aPPk{/youtube} 
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H-SEIF Booklet H-SEIF is a research project that aims at developing new methods for human-centred systems engineering. H-SEIF stands for Human Systems Engineering Framework. The project is initiated by the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN) and Semcon. The... 
R&D Projects
PUSTEROMMET Development project Library for young people With Sandefjord and Horten Libraries and Vestfold county Four workshops to help the groups to develop activities at the libraries. The group of youngsters participating where largely in charge of the content of...Design for Democracy, Design for Society, Master's Projects
Melina Hozhabri Design for Democracy, Systems Oriented Design 2016 Oslo School of Architecture and Design Collaborator: The Municipality of Tønsberg All men and women are to each other the limbs of a single body, each of us drawn from life’s shimmering essence,... 
Design for Democracy, Master's Projects
Virtual Democracy by Renee Melgård Democracy is when citizens participate actively in important political decision-making processes and have equal rights to participate. In Norway we have something called representative democracy, which means that... 
Design for Democracy, Design for Industry, Master's Projects
The Wall of Ideas by Tallaat Haddad The problem as defined by the Group EVP of Gjensidige Forsikring ASA Ms. Hege Ask; are the siloes between the departments, and that Gjensidigeneeds to be more agile and less hierarchical.By understanding the...Design for Democracy, Design for Society, Master's Projects
PERSONAL STORY by Niloufar Gharavi In the first phase, in particular, this project intends to investigate how a schooling and mentoring system could be implemented in the camps during the waiting time, to develop the inhabitants’ competencies or teach them new skills...News & Notes
This looks very much like Gigamapping. Explaining forms of democracy. page visits since 11/2022... 
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Open Letter to the Design Community: Stand up for Democracy Ezio Manzini and Victor Margolin Read more about our course and R&D on Design for Democracy here >>>>>News & Notes
Systems Oriented Design: “Design for Democracy “ Scope: 24 ETCS Institute for Design Oslo School of Architecture and Design Do you want to take this course? Please see www.aho.no for application. The course runs autumn 2017. Most likely it will be running... 
R&D Projects
Project Leader: Marie Davidova PhD candidate, University of Liberec marie.davidova@gmail.com Tutors: Marie Davidová, Šimon Prokop, Martin Kloda, students: Alena Novotná, Anna Hrušová, Antonín Hůla, Barbora Slavíčková, Jakub Kopecký, Jiří Fáber, Jiří Pokorný, Petr... 
News & Notes
19th April We were arranging a seminar as a follow up for the municipality of Tønsberg. About 25 busy staff attended the seminar which we found wonderful. In the middle sits Cathrine Heisholt who has been following the project closely and Geir Viksand, director... 
About SOD, Design for Regions, R&D Projects
The Democracy Files is a resource of collected articles supporting our belief that design can play a crucial role in democracy.
News & Notes
Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD5) 2016 Symposium Chair & Editor: Peter Jones, OCADU The RSD5 symposium took place October 14-15, 2016, at OCAD University and MaRS in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Systemic Design Research Network (SDRN)... 
Bachelor Projects, Design for Planet
I dette kurset har vi arbeidet med systemorientert design i tverrfaglige team med en felles designoppgave i samarbeid med Salto Ladestasjoner AS. Teamet vårt har hatt deltagere fra alle tre spesialiseringer. Samtidig som teamet har vært samkjørt og utviklet et... 
Bachelor Projects, Design for Industry, Design for Planet
E-route 2017 A project about Electric cars, charging and tourism. Martin Theodor Gravdahl VangeJonas Kolstad CarlsenVilde Rebekka AasenTruc Trung DuongStian Opsahl... 
Bachelor Projects, Design for Planet
Iuvo charging The starting point for this project has been a proposal put forward by Salto Ladestasjoner AS, with Hedda Heyerdahl as the external supervisor. Areas of opportunity that were put forward were electric car charging in the urban environment, solutions for... 
Bachelor Projects, Design for Planet
The 6th-semester course: “Designing systems”, develops the student’s ability to master the design educational practice focusing on the relationship between the designer, partner and society. An important goal is to see one’s design practice within more extensive... 
Books & Other Publications, Design for Planet, Design for Society, PhD Projects
Wood as a Primary Medium to Eco‐Systemic Performance:A Case Study in Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance Doctoral Thesis by Marie DavidováPrague, 2017 Czech Technical University in Prague – Faculty of Architecture MOLAB Department Supervisor: doc. Ing....Design for Industry
This digital platform is meant to be used as a “tool” to discover titles in the NRK television archives you didn’t knew you wanted to see – or at all existed. It aims to bring forward television material all the way back from 1960 until today. How do you browse... 
Design for Health, Master's Projects
What is healthcare in the future? Design itself is an important power to make the healthcare system change a lot. This project is aimed at exploring the future healthcare service through systems oriented design to make a holistic process and scenario of a... 