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The 2-SUSTAYNIA project (pronounced ‘to su-stay-nia’), should be understood as an urgently needed pre-project to bring us towards a more flourishing international design research domain of sustainability and ‘development’. Or in other words, it intends to underpin and reinforce what we at IDE are aiming for in our strategically established research domain ‘Sustaynia’ (see separate project description).
One of the current challenges we face in living and working in a ‘digital age’ is how to manage vast sets of information and exchange. Increasingly, these are needing to be seen in relation to one another, and in and as products and services that are connected to contexts and processes of use.3D Search looks specifically at how we might investigate further tackling the design and use of temporal and spatially realised and served information and communication.
Digital materials, tools, fabrication and distribution have grown rapidly in the past two decades. For design, at AHO this has not only had an impact on the foundations and growth of Interaction Design, but it has transformed part of our approach to what was earlier termed Industrial Design and now known as Product Design. Our work in Product Design has shifted through exploration and experimentation with 3D printing, more formally now known as Additive Manufacturing (AM).
Design views on Additive Manufacturing (AM) are still rarely found in the burgeoning body of publications on materials, technology and business. This AHO design centred Product Design oriented take on AM draws together a variety of transdisciplinary perspectives on AM. Our shared knowledge is presented as offering a unique design view that suggests ways that methods and processes of engaging with AM tools and technologies may be better understood in the context of discourses of digital fabrication.
This project assembles the body of transdisciplinary PhD outputs in Design at AHO in the form of compilation based and monograph type theses, supported by institutional, national and international research funding. Specific PhD projects in addition each have their own project page and links to related larger projects and research networks.
Challenging topography, geographic isolation and demanding climatic conditions have uniquely shaped human settlements and cultural exchange within and around mountains for millenia. Yet, with current stressors such as severe climate disturbance and struggling social-economic systems, alpine communities are faced with an identity crisis – how to build a more regenerative future that weaves together global-scale innovations with local cultural heritage?
AMPHIBIOUS TRILOGIES is a research through an extended choreography. The main aim is to artistically explore and monitor littoral spaces (between land and sea) via an extending choreography of related literal, limbic and liminal conditions, environments and articulations. Three subjects are set in motion; choreography, design fiction and sociology of the sea. They will be probed interconnectedly within three thematics/works: ‘island’, ‘pond’ and ‘passage’. Physical and remotely-sensed sea journeys, island hopping and pond wallowing are examples of research activities.
Anticipation 2017 is a unique, radically interdisciplinary forum for exploring how ideas of the future inform action in the present. It brings together researchers, policy makers, scholars and practitioners to push forward thinking on issues ranging from modelling, temporality and the present to the design, ethics and power of the future. AHO is represented on the Organising Committee by Professor Andrew Morrison and has funded the conference website. This conference brings fresh input from design inquiry to this futures event.
Engaging in tangled futures
Pressure to understand and respond to complex futures is building. In the context of climate change and increased global movement of people and commodities, our futures are systemically and creatively entwined. Making sense of immediate, near and far flung futures needs to tackle a growing and emerging entanglement of diverse interests and motivated social and political formations Anticipatorially!
The notion of “ReFuturing” enables long term sustainable futures by means of rethinking and reimagining futures as the material and ecological consequences of climate breakdown that our designed culture in the coming century will face and even beyond the ones we are already experiencing today.
Service Design is emerging as a new design domain in which design is used to create new value in the service sector. The AT-ONE project develops a process, methods and tools for service design and investigates their contribution to research in Service Design
This is project is a PhD study under the Touch project. It investigates how RFID may be used by interaction designers to create innovative user experiences. The goal is to create a framework for understanding RFID in context of interaction design practice.
In Biomenstrual, we imagine and experiment with sustainable, multispecies, ecofeminist practices of human menstrual care. We shift from discourses of menstrual management and hygiene, to community and more-than-human health care practices where caring for menstrual health is also an environmentally nurturing practice.
The importance of the brand has been recognized in both literature and practice. Brands makes promisses which should be delivered to the customer through touch points. Based on the concept of semantic transformation, this projects proposes to address the research gap in the development of brand based service experiences.
There are increasing calls from the global climate change research community for new strategies for translating knowledge into action. Unfortunately, the Climate Change research communities seem to be alone in really understanding the magnitude of the problem and how the windows of opportunity to address the issue are closing in before our very eyes. C-SAN Futures addressed designerly strategies for scaling up climate change approaches in South Africa and Norway. It’s part of a network collaboration between the CDR at AHO and the Faculty of Informatics and Design at Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT).
The Centre for Connected Care (C3) aims to accelerate adoption and diffusion of patient-centric innovations that change patient pathways and delivery systems, empower the patients and increase growth in the healthcare industry.
The ambition is to bring together different stakeholders to research and co-develop new knowledge, infrastructure and healthcare services.
This thesis research makes a case for full-body movement as a creative material in explorative design processes of movement-based digital interactions. The thesis is positioned within the domains of and intersections between digital technology, performance and communication.
The project developed a simulated scenario of PSV operation in artic waters. It offered a shared multiuser digital world generated by a game engine. The system was used for exhibitions at the Forskningsdagene and for facilitating user participatory design processes.
CONTACT is an interdisciplinary design and research project into museums and digital cultural heritage. The project investigates the ways in which ICTs are impacting the organizational and communicative practices of museums in their work of engaging audiences, particularly young people.
Safety-critical systems are those systems whose failure could result in loss of life, significant property damage, or damage to the environment. There are many well known examples in application areas such as medical devices, aircraft flight control, weapons, and nuclear systems. Many modern information systems are becoming safety-critical in a general sense, because financial loss and even loss of life can result from their failure.
The main objective of the Action is to foster a trans-disciplinary network of key stakeholders that identify new approaches, policies and research priorities for the emerging theme of smart and liveable cities and so enable people to co-create cities within a people-centred framework.
The Centre for Service Innovation (CSI) is one of several centres for research based innovation that are being set-up in Norway. They are funded jointly by the Norwegian Research Council (NFR) and industry, together with a proportion of own funding from research partners. This centre for research based innovation will become Norway’s primary competence centre for innovation in services. CSI is led by the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH) and AHO has a central role in the centre, leading one of the four innovation themes. The centre is expected to receive funding for an eight year period, starting in April 2011.
The DDDE-project is planned to be a three yearlong R&D endeavor where the ultimate and over-arching goal is to develop a more profound understanding of aspects that underpin good design educations in a northern Europe context (funding for last year 2013/14 tbc). Three Scandinavian design schools therefore started 2011/12 to identify and address contemporary challenges within design education. The schools are: (i) Designskolen Kolding, Denmark (ii) The Institute of Design at the School of Architecture and Design in Oslo, Norway (iii) Konstfack, Sweden
This project focuses on researching and developing innovative social media services to promote social engagement and participation among youth. These services are developed mainly to support a group of organizations that promote social engagement among youth. These organizations are NRK, Edda Media (media), Plan Norway (humanitarian), and Kongsvinger Kommune (local government).The project is lead by the market research agency OPINION. AHO will conduct the research for this project together with independent research organisation SINTEF.
Doctoral level research in design is relatively new in comparison with that in other disciplines. AHO has a well established doctoral programme that increasingly features projects in diverse areas of design. Little research has been done on the processes and activities involved in doctoral design, from practice to critical reflection and in collaborative learning and formal writing.
Teaching ergonomics to design students is closely related to the philosophy and concepts of Universal design, inclusive design and design for all. Another term in this field is Design for diversity.
The mediation of research to a variety of audiences is becoming increasingly important. How are we to depict, demonstrate and convey our design practices while at the same time communicating our analyses of them and their connection to other studies? What can the various domains of design bring to the presentation of design research and what roles can interaction and communication design play in mediating our processes, methods, rhetorics and insights? How can we make apparent the character of project-based and collaborative inquiry?
The designBRICS project is a platform for a lean network of different design institutes in BRICS countries and the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO). The BRICS are represented by the design departments at Hunan University (HNU) in China and Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) in South Africa.
The project investigates the development of design tools for the coming paradigm shift in producing and consuming products. This is caused by new, full-freeform manufacturing technology, also labelled Rapid Manufacturing, micro manufacturing etc. The need for these tools has been specifically pointed out in a roadmap developed by the US government, US industry and US universities, issued in April 2009.
This PhD project seeks to explore design for situational adaptation in the interaction between professional users and the systems they are using. The project is based on cases from the maritime domain, representing complex and high-risk user contexts. The research is centered around how distributed and multimodal technology used in these cases, such as design of augmented reality technologies for ship bridges, can be conceptually framed in order to support designers who are designing for situational adaptation. The project is closely related to other research projects through case studies within the OpenBrigde project, the EU-project SEDNA and the upcoming OpenAR project.
The PhD-project [designing innovation] investigates the ways professional designers work and how design influence innovation processes. The project is part of the larger research project D-side. The aim of this study is to develop a more consistent understanding among professional designers of the contribution from design knowledge. The study takes up what type of design abilities provide better working conditions for development of innovations in product development.
Digital technology offers the possibility to rethink the design process even to a degree where our conception of visual creativity is questioned. This thesis investigates the preconditions for an expansion of the traditional design techniques, and to invent, explore, develop and systematise new techniques that are specially developed to draw advantage from design computing. This thesis documents and develops a long-term exploration of a special type of design, the digital design that appeared during the nineties and that possibly started with the animation techniques introduced by Greg Lynn and the experimental use of diagrams introduced by Peter Eisenman.
The project focuses on how digital technologies and media enable new ways of designing urban services and positively affect issues of urban liveability, sustainability, design and governance of cities and urban space.
Service Design is rapidly expanding to include the provision of services for health and well-being. DOT is an AHO strategically funded initiative into the design-driven investigation of providing improved and new services for ‘welfare technology’ and person-centred health development. DOT refers to ‘Design for offentlige tjenester’ in Norwegian.
Dside stands for Design Supporting InterDisciplinary Environments. It is a user-centred biomedical product innovation project coordinated by the Institute of Design at AHO. Dside involves both institutional and commercial partners within the Oslo MedTech environment.
This PhD-project aims to explore how designing for customers’ experience can function as a source of service innovation through a relation to branding that has strong social and cultural components.
The project is situated in service design for healthcare and public services, and explores the later phases of service development.
It is important for marine industry to harvest data from ongoing marine activities to ensure development of competitive ships and equipment. The study involved planning, carrying out and analyzing of multiple field trips to vessels operating in the north sea.
FUEL4DESIGN (F4D) supports the discipline of Design and its MA and PhD students and teachers in Higher Education Institutions to productively anticipate critical futures learning needs and change processes through sustained future making.
At present the Circumpolar North provides a unique laboratory for studying future landscapes of production, infrastructure, excavation, and environmental change.
My PhD positions Systems Orientated Design (SOD), collaborative governance and Foresight as framing thematics of an anticipatory systems approach to my research focus area. My study is situated in a South African context and I am investigating how an anticipatory systems approach to design research might lead to shaping better and more sustainable futures of local actors in the Stellenbosch river catchment area.
The project facilitates knowledge transfer between ongoing research projects and research and development projects in industry. It arranged and facilitated meeting between academia, industry and design service providers.
H-SEIF or Human Systems Engineering Innovation Framework is a research project that aims at developing new methods for Human Centred Systems Engineering.
HYBRID is to do with connected products and services. It is an exploratory project based at the Institute of Design at AHO.
The requirements of designing for immersion and designing for interaction present a range of dilemmas and opposing forces. This research project attempts to shed some light on how to untangle some of these conflicting requirements, from both a theoretical and a practical standpoint, in the particular context of art installation environments – spaces that are open to the public and promise to reward visitors with some kind of ‘experience’.
The inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in the workplace is limited. It is challenging to find, secure and keep suitable jobs. The majority go directly on to disability income after finishing high school. The InnArbeid project investigates how to improve this transition from school and into a working life. The aim is to develop services and technology that enable young people with intellectual disabilities to make use of their abilities in the workplace. This will bring about benefits both to the individual – in terms of improved quality of life – and for society at large, in terms of reduced expenses and an increased value creation.
This is a national level network project that aims to provide a constructive and deliberative space for a host of large research projects funded by the VERDIKT programme at the Research Council of Norway. The network covers research into our shared interests in Interactive Representations and Models (INREMO).
KICK stands for Knowledge, Innovation, and Commercialising Knots for design research within digital heritage. This Nordic level university based network project builds and exchanges knowledge on research, innovation and education related to issues of design in digital cultural heritage.
This research project seeks to examine the role tertiary design education can play in enabling graduate designers to produce more imaginative, sustainable and innovative design interventions that integrate satisfiers for a wider set of needs, environmentally, socially and for the economy.
The PhD research project, a part of AHO’s continued involvement in research on Additive Manufacturing (AM), aims to investigate the possibilities of Additive Manufacturing, popularly labelled 3D printing, in the field of Product Design.
The goal of this PhD-project is to develop frameworks and practices within design research that support early-phase exploration and shaping of emerging technologies.
Matters to do with methods are often underplayed in design research – energy that goes into designing is not always turned onto experimentation in research methods. We see a need to more fully explore how richer relationships can be built between the techniques of designing and the methods of researching in a qualitative mode.
NarraHand investigates building, authoring and researching mobile fiction. We’re interested in the creative, collaborative storytelling of African immigrants in Oslo. GPS and a mix of media are used to experiment with mobile genres for learning and leisure.
The goal of Navimation is to develop a framework for understanding visual movement intertwined with navigation in screen based interfaces.
This 7th Nordic Design Research Conference comes at a time when earlier social, political and economic conditions, expectations and frameworks are under pressure, and indeed change, globally. Relations between design and power are today perhaps more present that before and them are seemingly strongly polarised. What then are design practitioners, educators, researchers, policy makers and activists, among others, to make of these changes and how are they to engage in effecting informed, ethical, participative and meaningful change?
A technique emerging from recent developments in lighting and computing is the use of three-dimensional arrays of controllable lights (LEDs) to create dynamic visual experiences that occupy physical space and can be explored from within. These techniques can be used to give the impression of presence, movement and form within physical space. The Ocean of Light project builds on previous experience to explore both the creative and artistic potential of such systems, principally when incorporated into interactive public art projects.
ONSITE seeks to strengthen the Norwegian maritime industry by developing knowledge that can secure an efficient feedback loop between field studies carried out in maritime operations and design processes onshore.
OpenVR deals with the use of Virtual reality in the very early phases of ship design processes.
PERFORM – Making Movement Matter is a transdisciplinary, practice-based research project that explores digital and visual engagement with kinaesthesia – our awareness of body position and movement. Through digital tools and improvisational workshops the aim is to examine how a heightened experience of kinaesthesia may play a role in identifying new, ethically responsible pathways to efficacy and social agency.
‘Pockets and Cities – Investigating the networked city through design’ is the PhD project of Einar Sneve Martinussen. It is situated between interaction design and urbanism and explores how interaction design can be used to gather insights and generate new meaning in the meeting between new technologies and urban life.
This thesis analysis 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. Moreover, I argue that we through a material and communicative design practice can contribute to foster agency and understanding, for both designer and the wider public sphere, within this sociotechnical context.
“Prototyping services for policy-learning”, the PhD project of Manuela Aguirre, attempts to bridge Systems Oriented Design (SOD) and Service Design (SD) fields within the context of the public sector.
Augmented Urbanism: Prototyping the digitization of city planning through the use of augmented reality in user participation
Commissioned by the AHO Board as a Review of Research, the Quality for Impact project aims to build knowledge about research at AHO and its relation to wider professional, educational, commercial and societal impact. The qualitative nature of the study will help develop situated knowledge about a diversity of approaches and insights in ‘design’ based inquiry.
This doctoral project aims to find better ways to work with radical research and innovations in the maritime sector.
RECORD is a user-driven innovation project which main goal is to improve Norwegian technology- and service providers ability to develop new products and services for social networks, where users share and access audiovisual content.
This project aims to build an understanding of service design to help design practitioners building the cultural sensitivity and investigates how an emerging conception of cultural plurality can be used in order to both offer a more inclusive and respectful narrative of the complexity of culture and to reimagine the boundaries of service design in plurality.
This PhD research is part of the Ulstein Bridge Concept project. The main focus is the super complex process of generating new conceptual design solutions in the recreation of the entire offshore ship bridge. My special interest is how the participants in the team of the research project Ulstein Bridge Concept (UBC) collect knowledge, mediate design competence, and collaborate in their effort of doing design innovation. The main focus is innovation in the fuzzy front end, conceptualisation and design collaboration.
The goal of the RHYME project is to improve health and life quality for persons with severe disabilities, through use of “co-creative tangibles”. These are ICT based, mobile, networked and multimodal things, which communicate following musical, narrative and communicative principles. They are interactive, social, intelligent things that motivate people to play, communicate and co-create, and thereby reduce passivity and isolation, and strengthen health and well-being.
Service design must push its current boundaries of reference to incorporate wider impulses from the social sciences and humanities to allow for higher engagement at a socio-cultural level with service customers.
Services are primarily defined by their intangibility and temporal nature where value is co-created during service delivery between customer and service provider.
Rituals offer time-based structures that allow for the intangible to be made substantive and as well as frame works for the orchestrating of experiential high points and high seasons. Myths offer symbolic and binding narratives for service customers, which can create new fellowships that build lasting communities of a brand faithful. The research takes an explorative and practical approach based upon theories from social science. From these insights a new set of practical design tools are being developed which will be tested and assessed in New Service Development settings.
SEDNA (“Safe maritime operations under extreme conditions: the Arctic case”) is a research project that is developing an innovative and integrated risk-based approach to safe Arctic navigation, ship design and operation.
The project explores the use of touch in experimental experience designs for geo-locative media.
This EU project aims to apply service design thinking to the tourism sector and particularly to develop tourism-specific research methods, such as mobile ethnography. Based on the prototype of a tourism-specific mobile ethnography application myServiceFellow (www.myServiceFellow.com), the project strives to further develop the application and evaluate its usability in practice through seven pilot projects in various European tourism destinations.
Service Design Leadership is part of the wider AT-ONE project in Service Design. The Service Design Leadership project aims to develop a framework for implementing design at strategic level in service organisations.
Service Desirability is a PhD project connected to the research and design project AT-ONE.
This research project explores the ways in which people can purposefully shape social structures—shared norms, rules, roles, values and beliefs. Social structures are recognized as a key leverage point in the transformation of social systems.
This research project is about exploring and bring forward new knowledge about the evolving practice of healthcare service design in the context of design labs. It was carried out using action research as an approach, through establishing four embedded design labs inside three different large hospitals in Norway over a period of six years, to study how healthcare service design is practiced and may be advanced in design lab settings.
The goal for the project Sustainia is to use designerly methods to make the unspeakable speakable in bringing Climate Change high up on the public agenda and by facilitating a more radical change of everyday life than seems possible today.
Designers are increasingly being engaged in projects for complex, high-risk domains. Yet, little research has been conducted that addresses how designers experience such projects, what kinds of challenges they face, and how they may manage these challenges. This PhD research project addresses the design in one such domain: the offshore ship industry. The project is part of the Ulstein Bridge Concept Project.
The concept of Systems Oriented Design is developed by Prof. Birger Sevaldson and collegues in the context of the OCEAN design research association and AHO. The main intention with this concept is to develop design proprietary skills, techniques and methods for systems thinking and systems practice in design.
This PhD explores Tangible Service Design Artifacting and investigates in which ways the design of physical attributes of tools can support relational challenges within multidisciplinary healthcare service development teams.
This PhD is a study of the designs of commenting sections in online magazines and newspapers.
Touch is a research project that investigates Near Field Communication (NFC), a technology that enables connections between mobile phones and physical things. We are developing applications and services that enable people to interact with everyday objects and situations through their mobile devices. Touch consists of an inter-disciplinary team involved in social and cultural enquiry, interaction/industrial design, rapid prototyping, software, testing and exhibitions.
Understand and capture long-term sustainability in ecological crises by imagining and investigating future life forms and styles.
What if we could redefine the whole bridge environment and change everything from the room layout to furniture design, and from the fundamental interaction techniques to details on the screen? This is the scope for the researchers, designers and engineers developing the Ulstein Bridge Concept (UBC) project. Together we aim to create research and designs that can direct the development of the future ship bridges of offshore service vessels.
UBV is a design practice driven research project. By actively participating in the development of an innovative new control bridge for large ships, we seek to investigate design practice in context of Norwegian maritime sector. The goal is to develop both an understanding of and developing strategies for the inclusion of experience oriented industrial and interaction design practice inside large scale maritime projects. Central in UBV is to incorporate design practitioners holistic approach to product experiences which includes aesthetical and personal aspects in addition to function and usability considerations.
The primary deliverable for this project is the free, open source Vega platform, intended for publishing digital and media-rich academic research in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and sciences. This content-management system will be a ‘turnkey’ publishing platform for print-like and scholarly multimedia journals, books, and data sets. The platform includes features that will help editors and publishers provide an accessible, secure, sustainable, flexible, open, free, and collaborative environment for authors and readers to engage with building and reading multimedia-rich, peer-reviewed content.
The central focus of this PhD thesis “Virtual Touch” is the use and experience of touch in multimodal and computer-based environments. It presents how it feels to touch and be touched in such environments.
The WONDER (Women in Design Research) network consists of female professors, post.docs and PhD students from the Scandinavian countries.
YOUrban is a research project into social media, design and the city. It investigates tools and means to creating engagement and a sense of ownership and responsibility towards our physical, social and cultural world.