Audun Formo

Audun Formo

Started 2022 PhD Fellow Emotional labour in complex service systems Audun Formo is a psychologist and PhD fellow who researches systems oriented design. He is exploring how implicit interpersonal experiences can be explicit through design. Situated as a case study in...
Birger Sevaldson

Birger Sevaldson

AHO Profile Author, Web Editor Dr Birger Sevaldson [dipl NCAD PhD] is a professor at the Institute of Design at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO), Institute of Design. He is trained as an interior architect and furniture designer. He has been practising...
Cheryl May

Cheryl May

Systemic Design Association Web Team Cheryl May is a consultant and doctoral researcher at London South Bank University. Her research is focused on prosocial leadership within Canadian social purpose organizations. She is a four-time executive director who has...
Dr. DEFNE SUNGUROĞLU HENSEL

Dr. DEFNE SUNGUROĞLU HENSEL

Finalized 2017 Institution: Oslo School of Architecture and DesignMain supervisor: Birger Sevaldson Doctoral Research Project CONVERGENCE: MATERIAL ADAPTATION AND INFORMATICS IN ARCHITECTURE Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel [MSc EmTech AA Dipl RIBA II] (born 1979, İstanbul,...
Haley Fitzpatrick

Haley Fitzpatrick

Project: 2021-2024 PhD Fellow Regenerative and resilient mountain communities Haley Fitzpatrick is a PhD student in Systems-Oriented Design researching co-creative pathways for regenerative and resilient mountain communities. Before starting her PhD, she worked as an...
Helge Tor Kristiansen

Helge Tor Kristiansen

Project: 2020- PhD Fellow Helge Tor Kristiansen is PhD candidate financed by a maritime project at HiALS who is based at AHO for the...
Dr. Jairo da Costa Junior

Dr. Jairo da Costa Junior

Finalised Jairo da Costa Junior defended his doctoral thesis at the Technical University of Delft (TU Delft), the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE). The main supervisor was Professor Jan-Carel Diel. Doctoral research project A SYSTEMS DESIGN APPROACH TO...
Dr. Manuela Aguirre Ulloa

Dr. Manuela Aguirre Ulloa

Finalised 2020 Thesis – Transforming public organizations into co-designing cultures: a study of capacity-building programs as learning ecosystems Doctoral Research Project Transforming Public Organizations into Co-designing Cultures As a PhD fellow at The Oslo School...
Dr. Marie Davidova

Dr. Marie Davidova

Finalised 2018 Institution: Czech Technical University in Prague – Faculty of Architecture MOLAB DepartmentMain Supervisor: Miloš FloriánSecondary supervisor: Birger Sevaldson Final Doctoral Thesis WOOD AS A PRIMARY MEDIUM TO ECO-SYSTEMIC PERFORMANCE: A CASE STUDY IN...
Thomas Slensvik

Thomas Slensvik

Project started: 2022 PhD Fellow Disruptive Innovation Through Military Design Thomas Slensvik is a lecturer and officer at the Norwegian Defence University College and a PhD fellow at AHO who researches how SOD might help military operations understand and interact...
About Systems Oriented Design

About Systems Oriented Design

The main mission of SOD is to help designers to become better at dealing with very complex problems. Complex problems are described as problem fields, networks of problems, wicked problems and problematiques.

SOD is open source

SOD is open source

If your project corresponds to all or most of the core parameters, you are welcome to reference it as a SOD project.

The Mind Shifts of SOD

The Mind Shifts of SOD

We need to make several small shifts in our understanding to truly grasp systems thinking in general and to start to become systemic designers.

Gigamap Exemplars

Gigamap Exemplars

These gigamap exemplars are organised into three main groups: content maps, functional maps, and structural maps. They are from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, the Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Chalmers Technical University and...
Rich Design Research Space

Rich Design Research Space

The rich design research space is an inclusive methodological framework and scaffold for research by design. The rich design research space especially addresses the issue of richness in the design processes and design-led research.

Sense Sharing

Sense Sharing

Gigamaps are about sharing a sense of complexity. If the team members have a diverging sense of the complexity of the task, this is a problem. The person who thinks it is a simple task will allocate far fewer resources to the project than the person who thinks it is a...
Timelines, scenarios, stories

Timelines, scenarios, stories

All systems are dynamic, and static network diagrams have one big drawback: they do not describe the dynamics of the system properly. Therefore, timelines are needed as a central part of gigamapping. This article presents some timelines and scenarios. There is a...
Related Approaches

Related Approaches

There are three related approaches that are derived from gigamapping: synthesis maps, layered scenario mapping, and metaphor maps. Common to them is that they are narrower framed than the gigamap and are more specialised towards a purpose. The gigamap is intentionally...
Leverage Point investigation

Leverage Point investigation

Donella Meadows suggested the concept of Leverage Points (Norwegian: Inflytelsespunkter). Leverage points are places in a system where one can efficiently influence the system. The ZIP-analysis and the impact and threshold analyses cover some but not all of this. It...