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Sounds to Signalize
No full textSounds to Signalize is an interaction design project exploring the use of sound and how to communicate and manage alarms on a ship’s control bridge. The project aims to investigate the current use of alarms on a ship and design new concepts for using and communicating the alarms.
Well-functioning ship operations require efficient communication between humans and machines and clear, direct information is key to a safe operation. Alarms can be annoying and hard to distinguish and lead to increased stress and difficulty in an already complicated situation.
The proposal is a Bridge Alarm Management system with a set of interfaces and sounds designed to assist the operators on the bridge in managing alarms both auditory and visually. The interfaces are designed for different user scenarios, which provide the user with the necessary information in the given situation.submittedVersio
A nature inclusive train station by the Alna river
Get PDF“How can we build our urban structures in a way that facilitates for an improved urban biodiversity?”
This question came from the ever more apparent reality that our biodiversity is dwindling, and that our diverse ecosystems are being replaced with new development of concrete and asphalt.
Oslo is densifying to meet the increasing housing demands. Important nature areas must in many cases give way to the demands of new development.
Many species, however, have over many generations learned to coexist with human structures. For example birds, bats, rodents, and many plants types have adapted to the urban ecosystem and urban structures.
With the energy demand of eco-friendly housing and modern design ideals, the current way of building does not provide these species the necessary facilities for their survival. Even species such as the House Sparrow, a common bird mainly found in urban environments, are now endangered species in several parts of Europe, and their numbers are falling in Norway.
If the urban development and densification of our cities are unavoidable, is it possible, then, to do it in a way that includes nature into our urban fabric and structures? Is it possible to build in a way that works with the demands of nature instead of against? How do we then build structures that can facilitate for other species than just humans? And can we create a way of building that ensures the co-existence of human needs and the needs of our biodiversity and ecosystems?submittedVersio
Refashioning Service Design : Designing for popular cultural service experience
Get PDFServices are becoming ever more present in our everyday lives and cultural lifestyles, enabling new practices and shaping new values. In the entanglement of people, experiences, interactions, products, technology and media that shape services, meaning is circulated, and culture formed. This thesis explores a gap between Service Design and concepts from popular culture by inquiring how novel services can be shaped through the uptake and translation of cultural phenomena. It further explores the cultural influence such services have through shaping dynamic relationships between use, production, mediatization and consumption of cultural material and meaning, and circulation of symbolic value.
This thesis introduces Trendslation, an experiential Service Design approach that operationalizes a triple-staged semantic transformation of trends, to assist the service designer in designing for experiential services that are culturally informed and enacted. This contribution frames services in consumer and lifestyle domains as popular cultural constructs in the way that they offer mediatized interactions and experiences that are influential in the cultural interplay of meanings, materials and practices. This thesis further contributes with the practical tool of the experience-centric service journey, as a visual narrative and mapping of the flows of meaning that come into play across touchpoints and interactions over time. In light of this service-cultural view the notion of the cultural intermediary is applied as a framework to further unpack how Service Design, and the service designer, may more fully adopt and enact a cultural role in shaping experiential service offerings and details. This contributes to the field and practice of Service Design by highlighting the service designer as a cultural intermediary.
The work in this thesis is situated within a commercial business context, where three design explorations have been carried out through the application of an overall qualitative and open-ended Research through Design methodology, in collaboration with three major national and global brands in the areas of food and fashion apparel. Moving between practice and research, and qualitative methods and design techniques, the modes and mechanisms of meaning-construction in a Service Design view have been explored by designing trend-driven and conceptual service design artefacts. The design-led research explorations have further revealed connections between perspectives from Service Design and concepts from Popular Culture that are framed through six new concepts and a model, that jointly offer a positioning of Popular Cultural Service Design, and can be seen as an overall contribution to the field.publishedVersio
Trans-alpine landscapes : Transecting a Chinese high mountain in transition
Get PDFThe dissertation Trans-alpine Landscapes explores the changing landscapes of a high mountain in China affected by ongoing urbanization. Mount Gongga, the highest mountain of the Hengduan mountainous regions in Southwest China, is the main case for this study. A trans-geographical exploration brings in other alpine geographies—the Swiss Alps and the Norwegian Scandes—as the comparable references. The project evolves around empirical readings on landscape spaces and practiced landscapes along a series of travelled routes, between valleys and peaks that are intertwined with urbanization. Its main method is the transect walks, which have been employed both in the urbanizing east and the lesser developed west of the Gongga massif. Urbanization is understood not as demographic and spatial changes from countryside to city; urban functions and emphases have extensively expanded to encompass previously remote mountainous landscapes, and this forms the phenomena of extended urbanization. In the Hengduan, the new emphases are on transportation and tourist infrastructure, facilitating the rise of a travel culture for leisure and outdoor activities.
The project deploys a landscape-informed approach by revealing landscape changes, challenges and qualities on the ground, in contrast to the more widespread tendency in the discipline of landscape architecture to read by plan. The photographic and the cartographic mappings along routes and pausing areas of regional, sub-regional and local scales are the tools for reading alpine landscapes. Through travels and transect walks, I found the east side of Mount Gongga more heavily developed and the west side in dilemma. I also found stretches of route around the mountain that were fragmented and suggested a more holistic reconsideration of route with light-footprint pausing areas. The walks also helped me register the multidimensional qualities of the alpine environment, and they prompted me to suggest the curation of a series of slow speed local routes to carry on these qualities for people, both local residents and visitors.
The dissertation argues that landscape architects can take the role of curators, circle out slow and light approaches to landscape changes as well as construct representations of the alpine landscapes. The in-flux landscapes could then be transformed into educational, experienced, and ephemeral spaces.publishedVersio
Bungalow 117 - rom for en låtskriver
Get PDF“Det er nesten ingen som spør fuglene, soppene eller det store skrukketrollet.”
Prosjektet handler om kjærligheten til et sted. Et gjengrodd sted, forlatt og forfallent, med en
gammel hytte - en “amerikansk” bungalow - og en liten bu utenfor. Det handler om mine
tilnærmelser til stedet. Samtalene mellom meg og stedet.
Prosjektet er en viderføring av tankene i mitt forrige diplomarbeid - The book of
architectures. Jeg viderefører lidenskapen min for biodiversitet og inkludering i prosjektet og lar
dette være førende for arkitekturen som oppstår.
Tomten huser et stort potensiale av biologisk mangfold og en koloni av mikrosommerfuglen
Mompha langiella, som faktisk bor inne i det råtne treverket i husets bærekonstruksjon. Dette er en
sommerfugl som er svært liten, bare 3-4 millimeter, den har nesten ingen mønster eller farger, men
har like viktige oppgaver i økosystemet som dem som er store og har fine farger. Flere slike
uanseelige mikroarter utryddes fordi vi mennesker ikke tar hensyn til dem når vi planlegger og
utvikler vår sivilisasjon. Hvordan kan arkitekturen hjelpe til å forbedre habitat og livsvilkårene for
disse artene?
Jeg tilbyr et nytt hus hvor insektene og andre arter f.eks sopp, lav, mose og andre mikrodyr
kan fortsette å bo i fasaden. Bygningskultur vs. miljø er et tema som bør belyses, særlig nå mht
klimakriser og utryddelse av arter. Som kjent har 65% av artene på kloden forsvunnet siste 50 år. De
er bare så små at vi ikke ser dem. Men det vil forplante seg oppover i næringskjeden, og en dag
også til menneskeheten.
Tema som, om det er nødvendig å rive - bygge større etc. er også noe som har hatt plass i
diskusjonene under utviklingen av prosjektet. Jeg bygger en ruin hvor forfall er en naturlig del av
prosjektet, et avstøp av noe tilsynelatende verdiløst - men som har enorm verdi for de andre
livsformene på tomta - og som vil fortsette å bo der sammen med den nye arkitekturen. I en utvidet
forstand - på kloden vår - vil det være avgjørende for hvordan det skal gå med verden, at vi er
inkluderende. Også for de små, som vi nesten ikke kan se.
Dette er viktig for meg - sammen med musikken. Jeg har vært og er fremdeles en låtskriver.
Det er alltid en eller flere melodier inne i mitt hode jeg forsøker å sette sammen til en sang som bare
jeg hører. Sammen med alle fuglene og nattsommerfuglene som jeg er opptatt av i min verden, så
har jeg alltid følt meg alene i det sosiale liv, med unntak av fuglekikkerkolleger og andre spesielt
interesserte. Det har hatt sine baksider, men mer og mer tror jeg fordelene er større en ulempene
ettersom jeg arbeider videre, år etter år - tiår etter tiår. Man lærer hvordan man skal leve.
Og nå trenger jeg et rom å lage musikk i. Et sted som inspirerer meg hver dag, et sted hvor
jeg kan være sammen med dem jeg er glad i, og et sted hvor alle skal føle seg trygge. Her regjerer
vi, ikke dem som vil luke bort alle løvetenner de ser eller annet “ugress”. De får rake sine egne bed,
selv om velkomne her skal de likevel være.
Hovedhuset - selve bungalow’en - er transformert til et “hus i hus” konsept. Ytterst en
monolittisk betongkonstruksjon, hvor rester av dagens fasade er innstøpt, innerst et lydisolert, men
levende og naturlig ventilert, akustisk rom. Interiøret er et svar på mine samtaler med stedet i vinter,
som jeg har dokumentert med en serie på 36 håndtegnede tegninger i a4 format, som sees i boken
som er innlevert.
Mitt prosjekt er en fugl føniks som stiger frem fra asken/forfallet. Det gamle bygget kapsles
inne i en støp som «foreviger» det forgjengelig og «verdiløse», samtidig som støpen eskalerer
nedbrytningen og gjør det mer optimalt for f.eks fuglene, soppen og det store skrukketrollet. Eller
her som vist på plansjene, mikrosommerfuglen Mompha langiella.
Tomten har forøvrig orkesterplass, jordene mot sør skrår svakt oppover, og stedets
topografiske forhold danner et naturlig gresk amfi. For en låtskriver og artist kan det ikke bli bedre.
Her kan jeg med tiden leie jorder og arrangere rockefestival til inntekt for artsmangfold og
inkludering.submittedVersio
Integration through nature
Get PDFIn my diploma, I want to explore the relationship between nature and architecture. When we refer to nature we tend to assume that everyone has a similar understanding. However, nature can mean quite different things to each person. This becomes particularly visible when a person moves to a new environment.
I will through my diploma work create an architectural proposal for a place to discuss and practice the idea of integrating people into a new place with nature as a tool.submittedVersio
Reusing Stadiums for a Greener Future: The Circular Design Potential of Football Architecture
Get PDFSince the turn of the new Millennium, there has been an increase in efforts to build environmental-friendly sports arenas around the world. Fuelled by large sporting events like the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the ‘Green Games,’ and the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, stadium architecture has become a vehicle for this trend. So far, the emphasis has primarily been on new arenas, in line with the widespread belief in international architecture of the 2000s that older buildings are less energy-efficient by default. In addition to that comes a conviction that newness is needed to attract sponsors, investors, and larger audiences—a position powered by commercial interest and the idea of the stadium as an ‘urban generator.’ While new stadiums may have a significant potential when it comes to green performability, that does not necessarily mean that older stadiums are surplus to requirements, even from a climate perspective. In this paper, we look critically at the well-established strategy of replacing old stadiums with new ones by questioning the climate impact of new arenas and investigating the reuse potential of existing ones. We carry out in-depth analysis of two existing stadiums, Tynecastle Park in Edinburgh and Stadio Flaminio in Rome. One of them has already gone through renovation to remain in use while the other is vacant but currently under way to be renovated. We bring in fresh perspectives from sports science, preservation, architecture, and circular design theory to explain why older stadiums become obsolete and to challenge the premise of that destiny. The aim is not only to scrutinize the general lack of reuse but also to highlight green strategies which could give existing stadiums a longer life.publishedVersio
Building Reflexivity Using Service Design Methods
Get PDFThe transformative potential of service design rests on its ability to enable people to intentionally shape institutionalized social structures. To avoid simply reproducing social structures unconsciously, people need reflexivity—an awareness of existing social structures. Scholars suggest that the use of service design methods can enhance people’s reflexivity. However, the theoretical underpinning of this effect remains unclear, which in turn limits the realization of service design’s transformative potential in practice. In response, using an abductive approach that combines theoretical and empirical inputs, we develop an integrative framework that explains the mechanisms by which service design methods can increase people’s reflexivity. The current study contributes to the evolving service design discourse with an alternative categorization of service design methods, based on their affordances for different modes of reflexivity. The framework also reveals the underlying processes by which the use of service design methods can support people’s work with institutionalized social structures as design materials to enable transformation. This research supports a more thoughtful use and strategic development of service design methods to support transformative aims.publishedVersio
