Design for Planet, Design for Regions, R&D Projects
Natureact will develop transition plans for three landscapes in Norway to mitigate and adapt to climate risk using nature-based solutions.
Design for Planet, Design for Regions, Master's Projects
Janina Sánches Cárdenas 2021 The landscapes we inhabit have shaped our societies. These landscapes have provided us with the resources we need to survive and thrive. Mountain Landscapes have an added level of complexity for the communities that inhabit them but have...
News & Notes, SOD-related courses
[Photo: Maja Nilsen Stende] The Department of Product Design at OsloMet offers a continuing education course in Practice Oriented Systemic Design in the spring semester of 2022 (10 ECTS, part-time). Are you a practitioner interested in working with change on a...
Gigamap Exemplars, Gigamap Type: Functional
These maps are demonstrating how mapping can be useful in registering and analysing information. This map shows an analyses of an interview of eight users of electrical vehicles. (Raoul Koreman, Suzanne Ofte Solås, Tord Stenstadvold, Helene Falstad, SOD bachelor...
Gigamap Exemplars, Gigamap Type: Content
Fire Safety: Product service system A clearly structured map that builds an ordered model of the information. The structure imposes a strongly guided interpretation that provides for some advantages but also comes at a cost. The structure gives the shared picture a...
Gigamap Exemplars, Gigamap Type: Functional
This “comparative map” compares two different businesses along a timeline with major operations. One company is in the upper half of the map, and the other is in the lower half of the map. The interesting issue here is how the map is easily navigated...
Gigamap Exemplars, Gigamap Type: Content
Ship azimuth controlers for Kwant Controls This map consists of four different parts that are displayed together to help create a reading of the information from four different perspectives. – Cong Li, HIOA...
Gigamap Exemplars, Gigamap Type: Functional
This map is made to evaluate the systemic impact of a long series of ideas in relation to a range of personas representing different customer types for a bank service. (Anna-Lisa Skoog and Beate Romslo, AHO 2014) Scroll over the image for details. Click to view the...
Gigamap Exemplars, Gigamap Type: Functional
Map showing a possible future scenario for robottic charching of electrical cars. (Raoul Koreman, Suzanne Ofte Solås, Tord Stenstadvold, Helene Falstad, SOD bachelor studio 2017) Scroll over the image for details. Click to view the full-size image. Full-Size Image...
Gigamap Exemplars, Gigamap Type: Structural
These maps demonstrate a balanced use of information types with depicting relations.
Gigamap Exemplars, Gigamap Type: Content
Image maps for complex processes Marie Davidova suggest using images instead of abstract symbols. The intention is to add a greater level of detajl, emotions and associations. The use of images will also support sense sharing. From a workshop at the University of...
Gigamap Exemplars, Gigamap Type: Functional
Ideally, implementation is an integrated part of a systemic process from the beginning. If the whole system is understood well enough, implementation should go by itself or at least very easily. In reality, this is rarely the case. There are always things that are...
Gigamap Exemplars, Gigamap Type: Content
A map that is interesting in the way it creates sub fields of layered information sets. ( Linn-Hege Øverstad, Rebecca R. Larsen, Ulrikke Pedersen, AHO 2011) Scroll over the image for details. Click to view the full-size image. page visits since 11/2022...
Gigamap Exemplars, Gigamap Type: Structural
This map sorts and relates information and problematiques according to a system dynamics approach.
Gigamap Exemplars, Gigamap Type: Content
Policy support A mixed map of information fields that are related through drawing relational connections. The map is information oriented where “information containers” like lists, statistics, references and diagrams are interrelated within a overreaching...
Gigamap Exemplars, Gigamap Type: Structural
A map that shows the balance between the objects and the relations.
Gigamap Exemplars, Gigamap Type: Functional
This map was designed to give a total overview of a companies organisation and activities. (For MEDEMA, Julian Guribye and Christian von Hanno, AHO 2011) Scroll over the image for details. Click to view the full-size image. Full-Size...
Gigamap Exemplars, Gigamap Type: Functional
This map systematises, developes and relates a documentation of a building process of an experimental installation. It worked as the central communication device and as a continuous discussion board. The physical GIGA-map is a team work design tool. It is also...
Gigamap Exemplars, Gigamap Type: Structural
Three relations-oriented maps: one is developed according to the library of systemic relations and two represent process tools.
Gigamap Exemplars, Gigamap Type: Content
These maps use language as relations. They are an expression of reasoning systems rather than an expression of world systems. Scroll over the image for details. Click to view the full-size image. Full-Size...
Gigamap Exemplars, Gigamap Type: Structural
This map is based on a mix of spatial organization and mapping out of operations.
Gigamap Exemplars, Gigamap Type: Functional
A map that defines a set of core values (for the Norwegian police) and maps out how these corevalues are related to the global system. (Bente Moen, HIOA 2014) Scroll over the image for details. Click to view the full-size image. Full-Size...
Gigamap Exemplars, Gigamap Type: Content
A mixed information oriented map where there are some subfields that are developed more towards systemic models. (For SALTO, Christian von Hanno, AHO 2011) Scroll over the image for details. Click to view the full-size image. Full-Size...
Gigamap Exemplars, Gigamap Type: Structural
This map is inspired by service blueprints. It is very detailed and is also generative, depicting a redesigned process.
News & Notes, SOD-related courses
This course is an entire semester duration course with 24 ETCS. It is taught in English and is open to exchange students. The course runs in autumn every year. Course description Master's...
AHO Course Updates, News & Notes, SOD-related courses
The GK6 Introduction to Systems Oriented Design is a seven weeks, 12 ETCS course in the third year of the AHO bachelor program at AHO. The course is taught in Norwegian. See the course description here Below is an example of the output of the course. The report is...
Books & Other Publications, News & Notes
This booklet talks about breaking silos in organisations and across disciplines.
News & Notes
The next SDA Norway seminar is 9th September 14:00-16:00 on ZOOM. Cat Drew from the British Design Counsil is our guest presenting Beyond Net Zero, the British Design Council’s new systemic framework You need to register to the event. Please join us...
AHO Course Updates, News & Notes
Part-time Executive Master’s Program To learn more about SOD and our new part-time executive master’s program in Systems Oriented Design starting this autumn at Oslo School of Architecture and Design, join this free webinar: Time 20th Mai 15:00 –...
News & Notes
The third SDA-NO gathering will be Thursday 10th June 14:00 CET. Register here: https://doga.no/kalender/workshop-systemisk-design/ ...