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A space for processing: Tistedalen paper laboratory
No full textTistedalen Paper Laboratory forms a space in which
material is processed - in this case, paper - from raw
material to resultant product. Through investigations
of material, time, and place, this diploma forms a
study of the role in which continual processing and
reprocessing has the capacity to form the foundation
of an architectural investigation – one that coexists
with physicality, fragmentation, and memory.
As a laboratory for experimentation, the project forms
a space that can tie into the active paper mill
downstream. The proposed paper laboratory will
allow for small scale testing and experimentation,
assisting with new breakthroughs and methods in the
production of paper.
In the architecture, the paper physically modifies and
forms its surrounding spaces, showcasing the various
phenomena that are present within such a rich media.
In one moment, the space for drying, its thinness
allows it to flutter in the breeze, with the ways in
which it hangs showing the strength and mass of
something that is simultaneously robust yet fragile.
The coexistence of these opposites, much like that of
the new and existing architecture, searches for that
delicate tension inherent within their composition. It’s
through this discovery of the fiber, as well its resultant
structure and composition, that I have uncovered
layers of memory, mystery, and place. The
architecture exposes and celebrates these moments,
allowing for a space in which a bodily experience of
material can take place – a space in which we truly
process – both in terms of material production but also
through human perception.submittedVersio
Bloom Building youth resilience through activities in nature
No full textMental health problems are one of the biggest health problems worldwide, particularly among youth, as a lot of mental problems found in adulthood have their onset in adolescence. These problems can be prevented by applying strategic solutions targeted towards eliminating the causing factors and also through mental health promotion. We know that spending time in nature has been proven to have a positive effect on mental health. With this in mind, this service design project explores the possibilities of using nature in mental health promotion. The approach of this project is to combine research on the issue today with exploration of future scenarios. In my report I will guide you through my process. Ultimately, I was led to the question: “How can we build mental resilience through activities in nature?” In answer to this, Bloom was designed to guide youth to growth by helping them choose suitable activities and gently pushing them towards spending time in nature. The aim is to help youth build the mental resilience they need to face the challenges of life. In Bloom, resilience is built through activities, self reflection and ncouragement. The result is a vision for a new service offering for Mental Helse Ungdom (Mental Health Youth) and Den Norske Turistforening (Norwegian Trekking Association). The aim of this vision is to inspire these two organizations to further collaboration, and it is showing the possibility of connecting mental health and nature. With this project I also want to inspire you. Next time you are in nature think about your thoughts and how can you actually use the power of nature to build your own mental resilience. It’s simple, nature is here to help. We just need to know how to let it.submittedVersio
Untangled : Upgrading computer literacy
Get PDFComputers are our personal companions that many had access to long before they could walk. To some extent, we have developed an excellent understanding of how to operate a personal computer. However,what do we really know about computer maintenance and how to best fix them? The lack of basic hardware knowledge and some practical repairing skills results in the increased rate of computer electronics disposal.Thus,leaving Norway on the top of E-waste generation chart in the world.In cooperation with “Restarters” (a maker community that focuses on repairing electronics),via my digital platform in association with an existing service;I aim to reduce the amount of e-waste produced, by helping people to build up the knowledge, courage and practical skills to look inside their computers.submittedVersio
New beginnings –rethinking drug harm reduction services
No full textNorway is at a crossroad with its drug policies. In the end of 2019,a model for a Drug Reform that will put an end to punishment for use and possession of illegal drugs will be presented to the Ministries of Health and Justice.The goal is to offer help from health services instead.In this reform climate I wanted to explore possibilities for service innovation in the drug care landscape to give new beginnings to persons with addiction challenges. I came across harm reduction,which is an approach to improve health and give persons with high-risk addiction challenges a more dignified life,through offerings such as safe injection sites with supervison and sterile syringes. My diploma proposes a new public service, Luna, which serves as national harm reduction centers. At Luna,the members can get a more comprehensive care package when living a high-risk drug life. A person with high-risk addiction needs more than just health care,that means help with nutrition, hygiene,social inclusion and other aspects that relates to human well-being. Luna is a holistic approach to the user’s needs and an attitude towards drug care. It includes a language, a set of values and offerings, service structure, identity and new ways of delivering public drug related services. Luna’s values are openness & tolerance, support & responsibility. Luna brings brighter days to its members. Luna – for lysere dager.submittedVersio
The space between design research and professional design practice
Get PDFA common field in academic research is the development and refinement of design methods with the aim of supporting professional design practice. As a result, design practitioners have a wide range of methods and tools at their disposal. However, some studies have shown that the design methods developed through research are not always adopted or used by professional designers. This lack of recognition has been seen as a problem for design researchers. At the same time, practitioners express that researchers do not address the problems of real-world practice and that most methods developed through research are irrelevant or inapplicable because of their failure to consider real-world constraints.
This industrial PhD thesis explores this problem from an insider’s perspective at Halogen, a Norwegian design company. Focusing on interaction and systems design, Halogen specializes in safety-critical systems, a field in which poor design might result in the loss of human lives or damage to the environment and the economy. Here, design practitioners interact with the industry, professional users and legislative authorities, often represented by the scientific community of human factors. However, little or no research can be found on how designers use design methods in this particular context.
This problem will be addressed by approaching research as a design practice using the interaction design research triangle. A first-person perspective will be used; I will observe and participate with designers in their everyday professional practice. This approach is guided by the overarching aim to investigate, in-situ, how design methods for safety-critical systems can be improved. Central to this approach is the use of the philosophy of pragmatism to understand and explain design methods in a real-world context. The study produced three journal articles that contrast and builds on existing literature on design methods and practice. A proprietary method collection was additionally developed for Halogen to support and assess the translation of analysis to the design of safety-critical systems.
The contribution of this thesis falls into two categories: (1) It offers a theoretical framework for explaining how professional designers use design methods in an unfamiliar, high-risk domain. The theoretical framework could enable further development and evaluation of design methods in the context of real-world design. (2) It offers a mutual framework to help improve the relationship between design researchers and practitioners. Based on pragmatism and a modified interaction design research triangle, the proposed framework overarches the work in this thesis. Combined, the two contributions form new opportunities for research and practice to understand and improve methods for the design of safety-critical systems
Beyond sharing
No full textBeyond Sharing is an interdisciplinary design project that explores the possibilities and opportunities of shared mobility as a potential contribution to challenges relating to the development of a sustainable urban transportation system in Oslo area. Shared mobility is growing and being integrating more into cities as well as transport systems, and part of a shifting consumer preference from car ownership toward newer forms of transportation. There are various challenges and issues relating to shared obility in Oslo on many levels, from infrastructure and service delivery, to the actual products themselves. My initial goal in this project was to explore shared mobility using Oslo as the context of study, in order to see how shared mobility services could be improved by considering all the aspects involved in its delivery using a holistic design approach. The result of this project consist of a documented policy design in terms of regulating shared mobility in Oslo city together with a design proposal that illustrates a possible and more sustainable shared mobility service that integrates the designs of service ,interaction , and the actually products as a whole picture using four possible scenarios. It is hoped that this project will help our beautiful city Oslo to be greener and more environmentally friendly in the future, and give its audience and the takeholders a new perspective towards shared mobility. But this is just the beginning…submittedVersio
From Het Lieverdje to NDSM. Historical Background of Amsterdam´s Countercultural Places
Get PDFAmsterdam ́s alternative urban spaces like the NDSM shipyard, De Ceuvel, De Nieuwe Anita, OT301, OCCII, Pakhuis Wilhelmina, Joe ´s Garage, Vrankrijk, and Paradiso are considered Amsterdam ́s rough, arty, free, naughty, best party spots. They are the places you go to after you have seen the canal district, the red-light district, the coffeeshops, the Rijksmuseum, and Van Gogh ́s paintings. These alternative places pose as Amsterdam ́s Berlin, even as Amsterdam ́s Christiania. There you breathe "the air of freedom.” These spaces echo the flair of the 1960s countercultural movements, that occupied derelict buildings and turned them into underground hotspots. This retrospect takes us back to Amsterdam ́s Provo movement, and the transformation of its legacy: the hyper-organized and politicized squatter communities in the city center in the 1970s, their violent clearings in the 1980s, the occupation of the southern city docks in the 1990s, the squatters ́ jump over the waterway ́t Ij to Amsterdam North, and the subsequent creation of the contemporary cultural incubators like NDSM.publishedVersio
Getting across
No full textThis diploma project is an exploration of the landscape within Norwegian language education for immigrants. It takes a critical look at the ongoing political developments in Norway and suggests a way to address these changes within existing education services. This report takes up some of the background and research for this project and will talk you through the final design delivery. It is intended less as a showcasing of the final delivery, and more as an argumentation for a new approach to service development in language education.submittedVersio
Investigating agentive urban learning: an assembly of situated experiences for sustainable futures
Get PDFIn this article we explore the dynamic between the pedagogical and the urban, attending to‘agentive urban learning’. By this we mean processes by which young people build agency in the urban context, in using the resources of the city to develop their own agency and of developing agency to act within the city. By agency, we refer to the capacity to imagine and act to create individual and collective futures. Our interest is how young people develop such agentive urban learning themselves and how it might be enhanced pedagogically at school and university. Threecase studies explore different facets–the first onhow young people themselves develop this agency in situated settings and the tools that they use to reflect upon the future; the second how digital tools might be used to enhance students’ understanding of the city as a site of change, in this instance, climate change; the third how such agency might be developed collectively in partnership with other city dwellers.We concludethat a diversity of students’ engagement in urban contexts of learning offers waysfrom which to further investigate how identity,setting and stakeholder relationships matter aspart of potentially sustainable agentive learning futures.acceptedVersio
Gata - på vei et sted : en studie av sammenhengen mellom gateplanlegging og stedsutvikling
Get PDFI denne oppgaven undersøkes de faglige idealene og visjonene som ligger til grunn når bygater planlegges eller endres. Intensjonene til planleggerne er ofte gode, men resultatene styres av gjeldende faglig tradisjon, vilje til endring, og ikke minst politiske visjoner. All planlegging skjer innenfor slike rammer, og mens idealet var å tilrettelegge mest for bilen, er vi nå inne i en tid hvor syklister og fotgjengere settes høyere i gatehierarkiet. I oppgaven spør jeg om gata kan være et godt sted når man legger til rette for mobilitet både for bil, sykkel og gange. Tematikken er aktuell da det for tiden er mye fokus på ny eller endret bruk av gater hvor det blant annet fjernes biltrafikk. Måten man utfører mobilitet i by er i sakte endring, hvordan fordeler man da arealet i gata slik at flere typer mobilitet kan utføres i gaterommet, og samtidig legger til rette for byliv? For å kunne si noe om planleggingens faglige idealer har jeg undersøkt et utvalg av klassisk litteratur innen urbanisme, bøker som har hatt stor påvirkning på arkitekter og byplanleggere gjennom mange tiår. Deres kunnskap og fokus på byer for mennesker er noe man finner igjen i mange i politiske retningslinjer for byutvikling og plandokumenter i dag. For å få en forståelse av hva et sted kan være er det nødvendig å belyse noe omkring stedsteori, mobilitetsteori, hvordan mennesker benytter seg av gata, og hvorfor man oppholder seg der. En forståelsen av hvorfor gata er et spennende sted, eller et sted som føles utrygt, gir bedre forståelse av hvilke elementer som er viktig for å oppfatte et sted som godt. Oppgaven tar for seg eksempler fra Oslo og casestudiet av Carl Berners plass ble valgt på grunn den tette sammenhengen mellom gateplanlegging og målet om å skape et bedre sted for mennesker. Stedet er et høytrafikkert gatekryss, et kollektivknutepunkt og et byrom. Ut ifra caset og kunnskapsgrunnlaget diskuteres sammenhengene og betydningen disse har for stedet, byen og fagfeltet. Det viser seg at ved å legge til rette for flere mobilitetstyper skapes en grobunn til å utvikle bylivet, men grunnlag for opphold må også være til stede. Alle steder er likevel ikke perfekte for alle, hvordan man oppfatter et sted vil være avhengig av hvem man er. Man må akseptere at noen steder kan være uperfekte ut ifra noen idealer, men derfor også attraktive på andre måter.submittedVersio