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Romm, Jonathan

Designer

Jonathan Romm is currently employed as an associate professor at The Oslo School of Architecture & Design (AHO). He is also a senior designer and partner at Halogen, a Norwegian design agency.

Until 2011 Romm was employed as the Institute Leader of The institute of design and vice Rector at Oslo School of Architecture and Design, in Norway. He has also been responsible for organising and teaching at the master course of service design at AHO.

Jonathan has been working in various international and local design projects with companies like Samsung, Telenor, Oslo Sporveier and The Danish Broadcasting Corporation.

He is an experienced project-manager and an enthusiastic coach and process facilitator. He has headed several innovative and inter-disciplinary collaborations and research projects with academic institutions, public organisations and commercial companies.

Specialties:

Innovation management/Design management/Design thinking

Service design/Systems oriented design/User experience design

Interaction design/Industrial design

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Knutsen, Jørn

Designer

Jørn is an interaction designer and associate professor. His PhD-project was called Products of the Networked City and investigated through design how the vast deployment of network and computational technologies into our spatial environments is prompting us to reconsider what “products” are, what they are made of and how they are designed.

Jørn’s design and research work is centred around understanding emerging technologies through active engagement and making things such as visualisations of technology, interactive products and exhibitions.  His work as been exhibited widely, including ‘Immaterials‘ at Lighthouse,  ‘Invisible Fields’ at Laboral in Spain and ‘DREAD’ at De Hallen Haarlem in Amsterdam. Additionally, Jørn holds lectures nationally and abroad about design related to technology, materiality and practice.

Alongside the research at AHO he is part of the design studio Voy in Oslo doing design consultancy and developing interesting products of their own.

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Eikenes, Jon Olav

Researcher

Jon Olav Eikenes currently works as an interaction designer in Halogen. He holds a masters degree in industrial design (2006) and a PhD in interaction design and visual communication (2010). Both degrees were received from AHO.

Jon Olav’s doctoral thesis was entitled Navimation: a sociocultural exploration of kinetic interface design . The thesis explores how we may understand the employment of visual movement in screen-based interfaces. The research project was practice-based, involving design experiments and multimodal textual analysis. See Jon Olav’s blog Navimation Research to read more about his PhD project.

Jon Olav has a received a Fulbright grant to visit the USC School of Cinematic Arts in Los Angeles, from August 2013 to March 2014. During the stay, he will explore the intersections of data visualization and kinetic interface

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Morrison, Andrew

Professor

Andrew Morrison is Director of the Centre for Design Research at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) in Norway and Professor of Interdisciplinary Design at the Institute of Design (IDE). As co-ordinator of research, Andrew takes part in and leads a range of design research projects. These cover Communication Design, dynamic interfaces and social media; RFID, mediation and activity; Service Design and innovation in leadership; electronic arts installation; narrative and mobile media; practice-based research/research by design; online research mediation and design research methods. Andrew also focuses on design writing, fiction and criticism.

He has been central to the ongoing redesign and teaching of the PhD school at AHO. He has supervised a dozen PhD students at AHO and others at the University of Oslo in design, media and education. Andrew is a member of the Research Committee and the Board of AHO. He was paper co-chair for Nordes 09, Engaging Artifacts, 3rd Nordic Design Research Conference (www.nordes.org) and been a board member of the Design research Society. He has published widely in journals, books and online and has a special research interest in online research mediation. He has edited and co-edited several collections of papers and chapters related to design and new media.

Formerly Andrew was an Associate Professor at the University of Oslo at the interdisciplinary research centre InterMedia where he led the Communication Design Group

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