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Cultivate your emotions
No full textThis project is designed to cultivate emotional intelligence and self-awareness through a poetic journey of exploring one’s emotions. By offering users a platform to delve into, recognize, and articulate their emotions, the app provides a distinct opportunity for individuals to deepen their understanding of the emotional landscape.
Through the language of flowers, I aim to capture the poetic nuances of our emotional journey. Just as petals unfold and wither, our emotions arise, evolve, and eventually subside. By associating emotions with different flowers, users can embrace the profound beauty found in these fleeting moments of life.
This tool incorporates various thresholds to help users identify emotions that match their current state. They have the option to select specific words or choose emojis that capture the essence of their feelings.
I utilize different data visualizations in my app to serve different purposes. Users can view detailed labels for individual emotions and explore patterns as more data is collected. These visualizations offer valuable insights into users’ emotional experiences.
You also have the option to share your labeled emotions with someone. By sharing their emotional state with someone, the user is opening up a line of communication that can deepen their relationship and allow their family or friend to offer support or understanding.submittedVersio
Limeworks - Recovering a Material History
No full textLimeworks - Recovering a Material history is a diploma project about Siporexhallen, a remains of a former cement factory located in the northeastern part of Gotland, Sweden. This diploma seeks to recover a lost material history and to ask what can be built in and of the ruin of an abandoned early industrial limework, through reuse of mass produced materials left on site.
Since the closing of the factory in Valleviken in 1947, a lot of the traces of the early modern limestone industry have disappeared. The workers and rails transporting limestone are long gone, and most of the factory complex was demolished and dumped into the sea in 1968. Today, only one of the factory buildings remain - Siporexhallen - located the furthest out towards the water front. The industrial building was a part of the original factory built between 1916-1919 and has over the years housed multiple programs and had several additions.
This project proposes architectural interventions to the industrial building as acupuncture rather than as strategic transformation. Based on my study of history and present state on Gotland, I wanted to work locally rather than globally with the intent of making the building and area around it accessible for locals as well as summer tourists. With the tendency on Gotland of transforming industrial heritage into exclusive projects only catering to the wealthy, it became nessesary and important to develop the project with an economic realism.
Three fragmented interventions explored in 1:20 models are made to the existing building trough locally mass-produced siporex materials.submittedVersio
Speculating on design, life styles and forms : studies in the contexts of climate change sustainability
Get PDFThis thesis explores a speculative, nondualist and relational design approach to engaging with ongoing climate change and sustainable design transformations. Posthumanism, amongst other theories, has attempted to use nondualist views and relational thinking to reconfigure nonbinary futures and deal with the challenges of the Anthropocene, which was formulated to address human activities with unsustainable consequences for survivable futures. Designers and design researchers have adopted future-oriented perspectives on and approaches to ecological crises. Such speculative design inquiry challenges the earlier techno-determinist and extractivist economic models to which design has contributed by problematising and shaping our understanding of the complexity of climate change from sociotechnical and cultural perspectives. However, future-oriented design theories largely lack relational conceptualisations and practices of sustainability. If we seek a fundamental change in design towards long-term sustainability, we must address nondualism and relational thinking in design theory and practice.
This thesis argues for an Eco-Cultural-Techno Design Speculative Approach to understanding the problems and potentials of long-term sustainable transformations. It presents a practice-based design speculative inquiry and related processes for designing Eco-Cultural-Techno futures. The research considers posthumanist notions and practices of Life Forms and Life Styles, encompassing nonbinary, nondualist, non-anthropocentric views and relational thinking. Based on this emergent viewpoint on posthumanism, Life Forms and Life Styles, the research consists of two heuristic and speculative design studies that offer critiques of the field of cosmetics and consumer culture through two projects, LO and XIANGVEI, that explore alternative conceptualisations and new relationships of design-based Eco-Cultural-Technofutures. Structurally, the study takes the format of an article-based thesis bound together by an exegesis.
The thesis offers three overarching contributions to design research. The first is a conceptual approach based on design-centred, posthumanist notions of Life Forms and Life Styles to investigate Eco-Cultural-Techno futures for transitioning to long-term sustainability. It also offers a Speculative Life-Style-Form Design Perspective through which this Approach may be read in greater depth. Second, the thesis demonstrates the design-inflected possibilities of multisensory and cooperative futures that could contribute to rethinking and supporting longterm sustainability. Third, the inquiry indicates that practice-based investigations through speculative design may highlight and elevate the potential to facilitate plural spaces for sustainable transitions. The thesis closes with a discussion of the possible directions for future
research, including making connections between imagination, climate change and design and the means of implementing these ideas in design research, education, culture and policy.acceptedVersio
Sea(weed) Lab - experimental production of algae based materials in Vardø harbour
No full textThe diploma seeks to investigate the dialogue between old and new. What kind of spatial qualities and architectural expressions can come out of this, and the investigation of seaweed as a source of new material.
80% of our oceans are unmapped, unobserved and unexplored. As a costal nation with over 100 000 km of coastline and over 900 000 ton on low value unused mass from the marine sector. We need materials that tread lightly on the planet and respond well to a dynamic climate - ideally doing both.
Are bio-materials such as seaweed the future?
Sea(weed) Lab is a seaweed design laboratory where seaweed is explored as a sustainable material for making by making. As a material seaweed is a sensory anchor, one can smell it, touch it, see it, hear it and even taste it (edible species).submittedVersio
Regrowing a greener web
Get PDFThe digital world is intertwined with our daily lives and will continue to do so in the future, but it has a hidden cost to the ozon layer that many aren’t aware of. This master thesis is a proposal to how we might shine a light on the subject and investigates how some of our existing services might change if designed with digital emissions in mind. Reading this paper will make you discover sustainability trends happening in the IT industry and give you a good idea about where our future as digital designers should go.
Calculating the carbon emissions of digital content is a fairly new concept and new discoveries are made every day. The ideas and prototypes in this paper have been made with the current best practice(fall, 2023) of designing for fewer emissions.
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The school - A premise for living in the districts
No full textIn a small village, the school is often associated with a gathering point. Daily activities, small events and big celebrations often take place in the same building, in the absence of alternatives. If the school disappears, much of the life in the village will be lost. In many ways the small school is a premise for living in the districts. This diploma investigates the potential of a small school program in district Norway.
The architectural potential of a grendeskole lies in the flexibility of the teaching situation. The possibilities lie in the classroom and how to create a good teaching situation for the pupils, which also benefits the smalltown’s use after school. The teaching situation must be able to take care of both the large group, the small group and individual students. In a village school with few pupils, a general flexibility in the use of the classrooms and the organization of teaching rooms to be able to “share” the teacher, will be essential.
The project focus on the building´s meaning for and interaction with the local community. The school has the potential to do more than just to be an institution. The school can also contribute to revitalizing a centre. By designing for multi-use, the building will increase its attractiveness and stand more firmly in society.submittedVersio
Tilkomst
No full textTilkomst er et masterprosjekt i design som utforsker alternativer for å utvikle bærekraftige gårdskollektiv i fremtidens distriktskommuner.
Vi har designet en tjeneste som knytter unge voksne til distriktskommuner, støtteaktører og gårdsbruk. Tjenesten bidrar til innovasjon i jordbruket ved å opprette kommunale gårder der unge voksne med interesse for jordbruk kan etablere seg. Kurs og veiledning hjelper dem i gang med å utvikle driftsformer som gjenoppbygger natur og lokalsamfunn.
Tjenesten Tilkomst skal fremme fellesskap og samarbeid for å møte fremtidens utfordringer. Ved å vise at et liv med nærhet til natur har åpenbare fordeler skal den bidra til at flere ser på distriktskommuner som attraktive bosted.submittedVersio
Hanging out: Accomodating the unexpected
No full textThe project explores architectural qualities that can accommodate different uses in the public realm, and how common resources such as water and heat can contribute to establish meeting points in the city where people with different backgrounds, in various life situations, can meet.
It consists of three non-commercial public spaces to hang out in Oslo, which are not intended for a specific activity, to induce various interpretations. The aim of the brief is to investigate the inherent possibilities of public space to accommodate unplanned encounters and different uses through architecture. What are the prerequisites for hanging out when there is no specific activity?submittedVersio
Gardens of Remembrance: Re-Imagining Desert Cemeteries
No full textThis diploma thesis aims to re imagine desert cemeteries in Egypt by exploring the design potential of xeriscapes or dry landscapes and the potential of the poetic meaning of the spaces of a cemetery. The chosen site for this study is in the desert near the new developing capital of Egypt, where an existing cemetery has started to flatten the land for development, uncarefully erasing the specificity of this place. The project investigates the current state of cemeteries in Egypt, the historical evolution of building cemeteries from the Pharaonic, Coptic, Islamic eras until today, and the cultural and social significance of cemeteries in society. The research methodology includes case studies of successful cemetery design projects, field surveys of existing cemeteries in Egypt, and site visits to understand them.
The findings of this research indicate that newly developed cemeteries, specifically after the Islamic era, face several challenges, such as overpopulation, lack of adequate design solutions, lifeless cities of the dead, and a focus on pure functionality without considering their impact on the landscape or social aspects. To address these challenges, the study proposes integrating cemetery design within the landscape to create a space of remembrance that respects the natural and cultural contexts.
Different grave typologies were designed by analysing the landscape entities, these diverse and site-specific burial spaces are presented as a counter proposal to the existing mono grave practice. Within each landscape entity public gardens, semi-public, and private gardens are designed, they act as space for resting, gathering, prayer, and mourning. The project presents a guide plan where the different entities are connected through a large-scale plan connecting the old and the new, the natural and the anthropic, and the city with its desert. The diploma project also investigates the poetic spaces for the new cemetery and gardens, encouraging to care for and maintain the gardens as a part of the process of remembrance. One gets to see something blossom and come to life accompanied by the deceased. The vegetation strategy is based on plants and trees that grows in dry landscapes and relate to religion and history. The cemetery helps those in mourning to process their grief, and it is the cemetery itself what makes the desert come back to life.
By understanding and highlighting the inherent qualities of a specific landscape, one could create new towns and neighbourhoods of cemeteries in balance with the ecologies, aesthetics and meanings of a place.submittedVersio
Molly House
No full textWhat is a Molly House? “Molly houses” were locations in Britain where, in the 18th and early 19th centuries, mollies, or Queer men, met for companionship. This project is trying to investigate how architecture can contribute to a more diverse society. This project is architecture based on a hidden voice, in this case Norway’s first known drag performer, and first foreman of The Oslo Student Organization, Peter Munch Wang.
Peter Munch Wang was born in 1792 in Trysil. He moved to Gudbrandsdalen when he was 11. When he was a late teenager he moved to Christiania for studies. Here he became an actor and the first foreman for the Oslo Student Organization. According to old diaries he had four main interest: He was an expert on hosting tea parties, an activity which was called female in his time. He was eager to get new literature into the studies. He was also a well known actor in female clothes, and loved it. He also carried a secret, he was most likely homosexual. He was thrown out of the boys dorm in Christiania after accusations of sodomy. He was forced back to his farm in Gudbrandsdalen. Here he continued hosting festivities, mostly weddings. He drank the alcohol that was left behind after his arrangements, and he died 49 years old, probably from depression and drinking. In the church book he is titulated ”student”.
His four main interests (tea, literature, drag and his secrets), his personality and history has inspired this project, in terms of materiality, construction, the program and the spacial investigation. What happens if you starting point of creating architecture is a hidden voice, an unkown story from the society we live in. Will we end up with a more diverse architecture if we let hidden voices inspire us?
DIVERSITY IN ARCHITECTURE
The city of Oslo appears today with a certain story. A certain narrative. Our society is slowling getting more and more diverse, but does the story the architecture tells follow the diverse development in humans?
NEW STORIES INTO THE LIGHT
If we want to create a city we can feel we belong in, feel ownership to and feel a part of, the solution might not be to create spaces for ”everyone”. Will we end up feeling more connected to the surrounding architecture, if we in stead make spaces specific for someone? And will these spaces in the end be for everyone after all? Hidden stories should be brought into the light, and they should affect us when we walk down a road, or when we enter a building. If we revealed some of the diversity that has allready existed in Oslo during it’s time as a place for humans, will the diverse humans of Oslo connect more to the architecture?
THE DIG
I will try to dig into our own history and bring hidden voices from the past up an into the our awareness.
And let one hidden voice inspire my diploma.
MY DIPLOMA
In my work with this diploma I started out studying hidden voices, and which voices that might have been forgotten through the years. As I personally has a great interest in queer art and social life, I was curious to find out who Norway’s first drag perfomer was. I was quite sure that he was still alive, and my hopes was to interview this person. To my surprise, he was not a live at all. In fact he was born in 1792 and his name was Peter Much Wang.Why hadn’t I heard of him?I started my research about him and found old journals and old recensions from plays he participated in. In addition to being Norway’s firs drag performer, he also was a part of founding Norway Student Organization.
Why isn’t this a man I have heard of?
According to old diaries he had four main interest: He was an expert on hosting tea parties, an activity which was called female in his time. He was eager to get new literature into the studies. He was also a well known actor in female clothes, and loved it. He also carried a secret, he was most likely homosexual. He was thrown out of the boys dorm in Christiania after accusations of sodomy. He was forced back to his farm three hours away from Oslo. Here he continued hosting festivities, mostly weddings. He drank the alcohol that was left behind after his arrangements, and he died 49 years old, probably from depression and drinking. In the church book he is titulated ”student”.
WORKING METHOD
I let my main man, Peter Munch Wang decide my program:
DRAG CLUB - TEA HOUSE - LIBERARY - SECRETS
It became a queer culture house, with these four programmes in mind. I have mainly worked in models.
During my investigation in models I asked myself these questions:
-Like a person with secrets, how can architecture inhence this state of mind?
-How can architecture keep a secret?
-How can a building awake curiousness?
-How can architecture be safe, but not exposed?
-How to keep the queer society exposed - yet still safe?
VOCABULARY
I reflected on the queer community today, and how this part of society is growing quickly. It’s easy to observe queer humans when you walk in the streets of Oslo, but not that easy to see in our surrounding architecture. I created a vocabulary I wanted to work with which both could be terms in architecture and in a queer life:
-Observe
-Learn
-Contemplate
-Curiousity
-Meet
-Hide
-Explor