Books & Other Publications, News & Notes
This booklet talks about breaking silos in organisations and across disciplines.
Design for Democracy, Master's Projects
Arotin Hartounian, 2018 There have been two worrying trends developing over the last decade or so. The first is that newspapers and journalistic organizations have continuous financial challenges as the landscape and habits of media consumption are changing rapidly...
Design for Communication, Design for Democracy, Design for Industry, Master's Projects
Anthony Saul Lopez 2018 Full-size image In partnership with Dagens Næringsliv, The main Norwegian business newspaper, this project surrounded us with the imposing question of how to tie together democracy & news. Democracy is a daunting term that many believe in...
Design for Democracy, Design for Society, Master's Projects
Jens Christian Boxaspen, 2018 Democracy has to me, always been one of those words you kind of know the meaning of, but really do not.The definition is straightforward, but how the government really is made up, why bureaucracy is needed, how do people across different...
Design for Democracy, Design for Planet, Master's Projects
Lieke van Raan 2019 full-size image A shift in mindset Today’s individualistic and consumer culture, as well as the industries and government, focussed on economic growth, cause waste, pollution and overuse of natural resources, leading to climate change. The...
Books & Other Publications, Design for Democracy, Design for Society, Master's Projects
This is a discursive project which uses a systemic approach to analyse and propose a feasible service concept with a flipped status quo. In the long term, the ‘service concept’ seeks to reduce the negative systemic effects and reinforce the egalitarian Norwegian domestic culture through improved living conditions.
Design for Communication, Design for Democracy, Design for Industry, Master's Projects
News Understandings An explorative project on how to enable different understandingsin news articles All trends point to more personalize experiences, and the news media industry is not the exception. But high personalisation has had an impact on the content we...
R&D Projects
Design for Democracy Studio SOD 2018 Master’s student, Jens Christian Boxaspen, went bravely to the task of mapping out Norway as a state and organization. The map spans from the top to far down to the bottom of the governing hierarchy. Though the map is far...
Books & Other Publications, Design for Industry, PhD Projects
Sigrun Lurås 2018 In recent years designers seem to increasingly be engaged in projects for complex, high-risk domains. Yet, little research has been conducted that addresses how designers experience such projects, what kinds of challenges they face, and how they may...
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.
Books & Other Publications, Design for Society, Master's Projects
@HOME in transition Encouraging asylum seekers towards more self-driven approaches to navigate the unknown they are surrounded with. Niloufar Gharavi n.qaravi@gmail.com Melina Hozhabri Melina.hozhabri@gmail.com Main Supervisors: Linda Blaasvær, Birger Sevaldson...
News & Notes
Download PDF Digging in the archive I found the old SOD picture book, a book that was never finished. It seems still worth being made accessible. It is a document of the early years of SOD. The book project was abandoned in 2010 for various reasons. Bear with the lack...AHO Course Updates
A SOD workshop with architecture students from the Fatih Sultan Mehmet University in Istanbul, Faculty of Architecture and Design was held at AHO the first to fifth July 2018. The workshop was joined by 22 students and two staff from the university. The group...
Bachelor Projects, Design for Industry
This project describes a near future autonomous emergency vehicle with robotic stretcher. It was a 7 week bachelor project where the students worked together as a team with different design responsibilities. The report is in Norwegian. The project was done with Baard...
Bachelor Projects, Design for Health
This project describes a future scenario with advanced healthcare including autonomous rescue drones and robotic stretchers. It was a seven-week bachelor project where the students worked together as a team with different design responsibilities.
Bachelor Projects, Design for Planet, Design for Regions
This project describes how permaculture can be combined with autonomous robotic agriculture. It was a 7-week bachelor project where the students worked together as a team with different design responsibilities. The report is in Norwegian. The project was done with...
Bachelor Projects, Design for Industry, Design for Regions
Robotic Apple Harvesting This project describes a scenario with autonomous robotic apple harvesting. It was a 7-week bachelor project where the students worked together as a team with different design responsibilities. The report is in Norwegian. The project was done...
Bachelor Projects, Design for Industry, Design for Planet
Project Team Thomas Wang: Produkt og interaksjonGustav Traberg: Produkt og interaksjonMartin Pangy Rojas Bøckman: Produkt og tjenesteAlvilde Jerpseth: Interaksjon og tjenesteElias Olderbakk Interaksjon og tjenesteGeir Atle Hustoft Tjeneste Tutors: Linda Blaasvær,...
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, Design for Industry, Master's Projects
Kevin Simmons, 2017 Gjensidige Exchange is a System Oriented Design proposal for a democratic communication platform inside Gjensidige Insurance, Norway’s biggest insurance company. Facing a world moving towards digitalization, and changing customer...