


KS endorses SOD
Radical innovation in municipal planning The Norwegian Association for Local and Regional Authorities (KS) is using Systems Oriented Design methodologies in their work. Their “Partnerskap for radikal innovasjon” is a program in KS geared towards radical...
UNESCO Education for Sustainability framework
Report’s eight key competencies can be applied as a SOD framework In 2017 UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) published their report on how education needs to change and develop to prepare us for the big changes we face to...
Practice Oriented Systemic Design
Practice Oriented Systemic Design Oslo Metropolitan University offers a continuing education course in Practice Oriented Systemic Design – «EXTENDED APPLICATION DEADLINE 4 JANUARY 2021». In this course, you will learn to design concepts for and in complex projects....
Manuela Aguirre on Bela Banathy, Participation and Power
Manuela Aguirre was given an interesting challenge for her PhD trial lecture.

Master thesis: Panacea Food Lab
Master Thesis by Zijun Lin 2020 Panacea Food Lab is a service and systems oriented design diploma that explores healthy diets and food system sustainability in China. Nowadays, China’s food system faces significant challenges in the context of rapid...
Eat FOOD
This is a systems oriented design project about food systems in collaboration with the EAT Foundation. The context of this project is set in Oslo, Norway. Through Design, Systems thinking, and gigamapping methodology, the current food system was mapped out. After...
All Connected
Elizabeth Bjelke Stein & Sigrid Løvlie, 2020 All Connected is a SOD project about food and wellbeing. It was conducted in collaboration with the EAT foundation (https://eatforum.org/). full-size...
PHD THESIS: Transforming Public Organizations
Doctoral Thesis by Manuela Aguirre Ulloa This thesis explores how public sector organizations introduce new ways of working, such as co-design methods and mindsets, and examines the interactions between emerging co-designing cultures and dominant public sector...Second SDA Norway gathering
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This new PhD position in Systems Oriented Design (SOD) at AHO focuses on better understanding the drivers and mechanisms of sustainability transitions, and on creative, science-based and cooperative ways to implement solutions in the real world by systemic innovation....
SOD PhD
The PhD project develops SOD methodology and practice further to meet the challenges from high-level complexity defined as multiple nested and interlinked “problematiques” or problem networks, involving multiple owners and affecting a range of bystanders, stakeholders and other actors.
First SDA Norway gathering
Earlier this year we announced the first gathering for a Norwegian chapter of the Systemic Design Association (SDA). We were planning it to be held at DOGA, the Norway center for design and architecture. We limited the meeting to 90 participants. The interest...
New PhD thesis from TU Delft
Jairo da Costa Junior from Brazil defended his doctoral thesis at the Technical University of Delft (TU Delft), the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY Embracing the complexity of energy challenges in...
SDA Norway Gathering
For the first time we bring together everybody in Norway interested in Systems Oriented Design, or other forms of systemic design. People from abroad are welcome too.We establish the Norwegian branch of the Systemic Design Association through a gathering...
Master thesis: Alternatives within Housing
This is an exploratory project that reframes the housing problem and reimagines the system in the near future – one where the focus of our housing system has moved away from supporting wealth-building to supporting long-term well-being.