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In the Clouds: An art centre by the Bergen harbour
No full textBy uncovering and collecting essential features of the architecture and city fabric of Bergen, I aimed to discover qualities, which would help me generate a more locally anchored approach to architectural design and use this to design a building for Bergen.
In the first phase, I worked with uncovering the main characteristics of the city’s architecture and urban fabric to create a collection of the things that for me constitutes the essential aspects of Bergen. I believe it is important to identify Bergen’s architectural distinctiveness during a period when several large-scale building projects are about to start in and around the city centre.
In the second phase I sampled and digested my discoveries via models, texts and sketches, which I developed into an architectural project situated in the Tollboden area next to the harbour in central Bergen.
The goal was to design a flexible art centre, open and well integrated within its urban context, linking different kinds of artists with each other, as well as connecting the artists with the people.
Bergen has several art galleries and institutions to help facilitate a thriving art scene, but seem to lack a clear centre of gravity linking them all together in one visible and open public building, which is what I have aimed to create through my project.submittedVersio
Attempting to Resist Ontological Occupation When Designing for Scale in Healthcare
Get PDFScholars have recently called out how design is complicit in ontological occupation, where one reality makes other realities non-existent. The perpetuation of ontological occupation is a particular risk when designing for scale in healthcare, as Western healthcare is a recognized carrier of modern universalist practices that threaten local ways of caring. In this research, we draw from science and technology studies and anthropology to inform a research through design study positioned within a collective effort to scaleup decentralized care models in Norway. We analyse five attempts at resisting ontological occupation through design and, by doing so, contribute with lessons for design practice on the practical implications of ontological politics.acceptedVersio
The in between
Get PDFAround the age of 18, youth with long term follow-up by several health, care and welfare services transition from child oriented to adult oriented parts of the public sector. This diploma project is an exploration of the gap between these two ”sides” and how to start bridging it.
During the transition to adulthood, youth are in between dependence and independence, childrens rights and adults rights. Parallel to this, they are transferred from services for children and youth to services for adults. The risk is that they fall in between the two sides, as the services struggle to collaborate, share responsibility and see the transition as a longer, fragile process. Youth and their next of kin need flexible and predictable services adapted to their needs. Investing in facilitating a proper transition into an inclusive and independent adult life could equal qualitative and quantitative benefits in the long run, for both the families and the public sector.
The gap between the ”sides” can be bridged in different ways, with small steps and long term, systemic change. Several long standing structures like organizational and financial differences have to be uprooted. In addition to pointing at some of these structures, presenting a future vision and associated principles, I propose interventions - mainly from low hanging fruits. As a stepping stone for further development I created a low threshold tool for adapting information about the transition to each youth´s needs. Another intervention is a set of cards presenting leverage points to stimulate dialogue and reflection across services on each side of a transfer.
Taking small steps towards more flexible and adaptive services should be done parallel to challenging the more systemic, structural barriers for collaboration. Additionally, there is potential in shifting mindsets through stimulating dialogue. This project exemplifies how the complexity can be approached from these angles.submittedVersio
Moist, Mist and the In-between
Get PDFValle Hovin is a formal valley located in Oslo, Norway in an area with high urbanisation pressure due to an ongoing development project, creating from the former industrial area a new neighbourhood called Hovinbyen. Valle Hovin is positioned in the vicinity of the stream opening projects, the same stream - Hovinbekken - which is buried also under the Valley. In my diploma project, I am engaging with the diversity of water in the place, where water used to be a huge part of the identity.
To find what is the real notion of water in Hovin Valley I went through the history of the stream and by comparing the historical layer I found the richness which this place offers.
From the moist wet area full of dams only on is remain - Hovindammen. Together with building a new highway in the 1980s, all original topography was confused and sport fields were placed wrongly.
In the concept of my proposal, I decided to return to this landscape its old shape. The sports fields need to be rearranged, then the landscape would receive its natural depression. By adding dams into this new ditch and reopening the stream, the cascade of dams could be reintroduced again. Most of the problems in the area are caused by rainwater. By terracing, I divided the slope into several floors where rainwater will be gradually stored, clean, soak or evaporate. The design proposal is dealing with various forms of water and shows the landscape in dynamic through the seasons. On the same principle of concentration and dispersal as I am working with water I used for vegetation and usage layers. In the large context of Hovinbyen, Valle Hovin is going to play a crucial role in the community life, therefore, was important to connect it well with its surroundings.submittedVersio
To whom it may concern
No full textA diploma exploring the digital job market with a focus on student employability.
Student economy often requires an extra source of income during studies, especially when attending universities in larger cities. Additionally, there is an increasing pressure and need from the post grad market for first time applicants to already have some level of job experience when joining the “adult work life”. Thus, finding a job that is flexible around the student’s existing full-time job (their studies), is essential for many students to make ends meet, and it is also an important step on their individual career path.
This project is an exploration of the digital job market with the students (Norwegian and international) at higher institutions in Oslo, Norway as its primary target group. It is a design project in the intersection between service and interaction design, working within a mature market that contains a plethora of services and platforms.
This project proposes a solution positioned within the institutes of Oslo, easily accessible
for students. Through conversations and testing with students (the primary target group) and career guidance counsellors (the secondary target group), Creer was created as a hybrid product of a career guidance center and a traditional job posting board. Creer purpose is to assist the student on their journey in creating their own career path providing needed and relevant content as well as job opportunities - easily accessible. By doing so, it aims to decrease the time the student spends on preparing for, and participating in the job application process, letting the student focus on their main job – being students.submittedVersio
Exploring Sacred Service Design
No full textThis study focuses on the development of new service design approaches for the design of experience-centric services through the integration and utilization of concepts and practices relating to the study of the sacred. During the rapid expansion and acceptance of service design as an established approach to service development, much attention has lately been given to the discipline’s role as an agent for the improvement of public sector services through user-centered innovation. However, less attention has been given to ways in which service design might contribute to the design of experience-centric services. Experience-centric services refer to services that lift the experiential with a designed intentionality as a crafted, differentiating element of the service offering (Zomerdijk & Voss,2010). At the same time, it has been shown that consumers are sharing extraordinary experiences through a form of sacralization of products and services (Belk, Wallendorf & Sherry. Jr, 1989). Such a phenomenon would seem to offer potential for new forms of experience-centric services. This
PhD therefore has honed in on the study of the sacred as a possible area from which to glean fruitful practices and concepts for the development of new approaches for the design of experience-centric services. In doing so, it has drawn from approaches, concepts and practice from socio-cultural domains to weave this together with service design practice to develop a new service design approach. The main methodological approach of this PhD is research through design (RtD) supported by practice-based design and research methods located within qualitative inquiry. This was done through a series of design cycles in collaboration with four, large Norwegian service providers in real life cases, running for periods of six weeks to eight-month durations. The main contribution of the research can be found in the resulting
Sacred Services Approach, which is the main finding of the research. This is supported through the descriptions of the process and outcomes of the real-life case studies. Further reflection and implications are offered as part of the conclusion of the work. Through the evelopment of the Sacred Services Approach, the thesis contributes in three main ways: Analytically, it identifies and develops interdisciplinary themes and perspectives between sociocultural domains and service design. In regard to service design research, it develops an approach that enables a discussion and exemplification of how service design can integrate approaches, concepts and practice from socio-cultural domains into the discourse on service design to broaden its current framing. For service design practice, it develops an approach that is a useful and useable blueprint for the design of experience-centric services, specifically for what I refer to as ‘sacred customer experiences.acceptedVersio
Learning lab
No full textLearning Lab is a proposal for a new secondary school at Økern in Oslo. The project explores the potential of inhabiting a building from the past with a program for the future, and is a counter-proposal to the practice of building new before exploring the potential of existing structures.
Our base is an existing building in need of a suitable program and a school program in need of a suitable structure. What if one could benefit from the already existing resource: The former Center for Fur, and create cultural capital as well as preserve the the identity of place through adaptive reuse?
The 20.000 square-meter building offers an overcapacity of space in relation to the school program, leading us to ask how the school could play a central role in the city. What does the school represent as a social infrastructure? The surplus space allows for the school to give back to the community and be a culture hub for sports events, courses and social gatherings.
Through our studies and analysis of the building we have discovered qualities and opportunities we wish to evolve on and celebrate in the project. We believe that combining our findings with new interventions can create spatial richness and add value to the new school. Our ambition has been to intervene with minimal changes to create maximum effect. Interventions are made on the inherent premises and logic of the building. We have designed the project with an inside-out approach, focusing on the inherent qualities of the building and what it could possibly represent in the local community.submittedVersio