Espen Strange
Master Thesis
SOD executive Master
Oslo School of Architecture and Design, 2024
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Partial Abstract
Waves of change are transforming the future of the Ocean Industries through digitalisation and decarbonisation and increasing focus on ocean-related social and environmental aspects. These dynamics vary across time and scale, introducing novel technologies, operations, and ways of working as a response to changing needs and challenges. Introducing the need to explore future opportunities and challenges in the present to inform design, research, and innovation in the future. Shaping a technologically advanced and yet sustainable future for the Ocean Industries may require actors in the Ocean Industries to actively balance the short- and long-term perspectives. Particularly in relation to securing inclusive human-centred ways of working within new operations, adopting highly automated “intelligent” or autonomous technologies, and emerging to optimise operations, decarbonise, and drive sustainability. To learn, research, and design ‘in’ and for the future introduces a ‘hyper complex’ socio-technical context that organisations may find challenging to explore with a rationally based formal business framework.
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