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Fra behovskartlegging til innovasjon for personer med utviklingshemming – noen metodiske og etiske refleksjoner
Get PDFOffentlig sektor erfarer i økende grad et behov for innovasjon og teknologiutvikling av sine tjenester. Et viktig premiss er at nye løsninger skal løse reelle og fremtidsrettede behov, og som en følge av dette har oppmerksomheten rundt brukerinvolvering økt de senere årene. Det er mangel på kunnskap om hvordan brukeropplevelser kan bidra, og mange innovasjonsprosjekter har mislyktes på grunn av manglende forståelse for behovene til dem som skal dra nytte av nye løsninger. Det manglende kunnskapsgrunnlaget utfordres særlig når man skal innovere i komplekse kontekster der mange aktører er involvert, og når sluttbruker har en kognitiv funksjonsnedsettelse. Disse utfordringene er fremtredende i innovasjonsprosjektet «InnArbeid», hvor hensikten er å innovere overgangen fra skole til arbeidsliv for personer med utviklingshemming. I denne artikkelen vil erfaringene fra InnArbeid benyttes som case for å belyse metodiske og etiske aspekter ved behovskartlegging for innovasjon. Sentrale erfaringer er at et tverrfaglig perspektiv og tett samarbeid med offentlig sektor er viktig i denne prosessen. Videre er en fleksibel og pragmatisk tilnærming til datainnsamling avgjørende for å innhente relevant kunnskap.publishedVersio
Arkitekturens palett fargevalg i byrommet : en studie av den transformerte sjøfronten langs Damsgårdssundet i Bergen
Get PDFDenne masteroppgaven er en kartleggingsoppgave av hvordan fargevalg i arkitektur gjøres i urbane byrom i dag. Hovedcaset for oppgaven er den transformerte sjøfronten av Damsgårdssundet i Bergen. Gjennom flere dybdeintervjuer med ulike aktører som har vært involvert i utviklingen av området, viser funnene at det i dag ikke finnes noen overordnet plan eller tanke rundt hvordan man fargesetter eksteriør i Bergen. Til grunn for dette ligger en rekke faktorer som økonomi, raske avgjørelser, kompromisser og hensynet til vedlikehold, men kanskje først og fremst en generell fargeredsel og mangel på kunnskap. Farge blir av mange, både arkitekter, utviklere og det offentlige, kun sett på som et supplement til den arkitektoniske formen. Fargen oppleves mindre viktig for byrommet enn arkitekturen i seg selv, dette til tross for at flere og flere begynner å bli bekymret for «det grå teppet» som brer seg utover landet. Jeg har bevisst valgt å se på et område som fargemessig skiller seg fra den grå trenden. I Damsgårdssundet er det på flere av husene brukt sterke og mettede farger. Mine funn viser imidlertid at fargesetting ikke er en integrert del av planleggingsprosessen, men et resultat av tilfeldigheter. Gjennom bevisstgjøring, kunnskapsheving og informasjon til fagfolk så vel som lekfolk, kan fargen få en mer selvstendig plass i utviklingen av byrommet. Dette burde forankres i egne fargeveiledere som er knyttet opp til kommunens planer, ikke nødvendigvis som fastsatte regler, men som påminnelser om at farge er avgjørende for hvordan vi oppfatter verden rundt oss.submittedVersio
From treating to assisting:Designing to enable cultural change at the Reproductive Medical Department at Rikshospitalet
No full textAssisted reproduction treatments are demanding and difficult to go through, and there is no guarantee that the treatment will be successful. Nowadays, the culture around assisted reproduction in public institutions in Norway is primarily focused on effectiveness and success rates, making many patients feel like they are not being acknowledged as people, but that they are part of a production line. The project explores how to enable cultural change at the Reproductive Medical Department at Rikshopitalet in order to make their service more supportive towards patients, acknowledging their differences and the difficulties they go through during the process of assisted reproduction. Three main principles were co-design to enable a transition from a production-oriented culture towards a culture of assistance: from assembly-line experience to team-based care; from treating everyone in the same way to acknowledging diversity; from a single view of success to an holistic understanding of experience. In order to support the process, cultural prompts were designed to evidence how each principle can be translated into new practices and/or tools: a visual proposal to make it easier to have access to the patient's information; a yearly program with weekly practices to encourage the healthcare team to have better communication with patients; a patients' diary to be used as a communication tool between the healthcare team and patients; and a new practice to measure patients' experience to identify improvement points in an easier way.The project goal is to become the first step towards cultural change at the Reproductive Medical Department. It aims to sparkle cultural awareness and inspire the team to continue this journey to make their service more supportive for patients.submittedVersio
Miniature Megalopolis - Stories, Structures and Strategies for the Valley
Get PDFMiniature Megalopolis considers an urban and geographic entity in the north east part of Oslo - the valley usually referred to as Groruddalen. Sitting as a hinge between Oslo and its hinterland, the area is a complex jumble of industry, cars, noise and messiness, interrupted by slender chimneys and the massive banana slabs, superlamellas and pyramid blocks of the satellite cities. Green patches of sport fields, agriculture, lawns and meadows provide breathing space. A place with a long history of housing workers and migrants, of social and cultural diversity, of freedom and coolness, but united mostly by its bad reputation.
A goal of the project became to provide an understanding and a narrative for the urban condition of the Valley. Is it possible to identify an underlying logic in this chaos, to discern the outlines of a city in the urban noise? Could this condition of messiness be celebrated and provide a sense of autonomy and resistance, in stead of being swallowed by the planning logic of central Oslo?
As an approach to this intergrown condition, the urbanity of the valley is understood as a product of a Norwegian planning tradition. In the post-war era, the valley became the most important testing ground for radical urban experiments, and key to understanding any decade of Norwegian urbanism. This urban approach is understood through five principles which are used as entry points for analysing the valley: nature, views, center, church and fields. Critically reflecting on the development of the satellite cities, a new urban project is proposed. Five parallel strategies are developed, playing out all levels of urbanism, from top-down to bottom-up. The speculated implementations reveal new models of production and life, emancipating the Valley from central Oslo.submittedVersio
Stil und Abgeschiedenheit
Get PDFIn his famous essay “Der moderne Denkmalkultus. Sein Wesen und seine Entstehung” from 1903, the Austrian historian and art theorist Alois Riegl pondered why it is that the modern observer is able to appreciate the monuments of the past. It seems an odd question. The nineteenth century was obsessed with history; its artists and architects were often accused of appreciating nothing but the past. Yet, Riegl’s question is prescient. If, as the historicists had long professed, there are no absolute or eternal standards in art – if the value of art and architecture is relative, changing with time and circumstance – then logically, the past should be inaccessible to us. How come it is not? Riegl’s seemingly naïve question sums up historicism’s most pressing dilemmas and reveals the epochal determinism lurking in nineteenth-century Zeitgeist-thinking. This essay investigates Riegl’s attempted answers and their intellectual presuppositions.publishedVersio
Things for collective gathering
Get PDFThe Oslomarka (peri-urban forest) is the quintessential public space in Oslo and an object of cultural construct. It is designed and managed to create a notion of a natural forest through actively limiting clear geometry and linear planting patterns. The project aims to embrace the artificiality of the forest. Thus if we can consider that forestry is an act of design, what other spatial opportunities does the forest provide? The project uses the industrial action of timber extraction as a design tool to create bosquets, open air rooms in the forest. The rooms increase formal legibility while embracing the environmental conditions of the site. Set within the rooms, a new set of objects are placed, making for a new cultural sceneography.submittedVersio
House for all
Get PDFHouse for All is a place for secular and inter-religious ceremonies and learning. Its architecture is an expression of unity, a volume of intertwined sequences of public and private spaces within the building. It is an exploration of spatial organization and the experience it engenders.
It is located between three religious buildings at Grønland. With no architectural precedence, it relies on the proposed idea of a hidden central room in a pure geometric volume. The surrounding rooms create a network of smaller ceremonial rooms and places for learning, aligned on a vertical route around the double brick wall, ending in a garden on the roof.
The House for All is diversity and unity in a form, a proposal for a new architecture in the rapidly changing religious demographic of the city.submittedVersio
An animal sanctuary for sheep
No full textIn the vast meadowland of Gotland sits the
structure which is a part of the horizontal
landscape found on site. The built landscape is
inhabited by an animal sanctuary for sheep based
on The Five Freedoms that outline five aspects of
animal welfare under human control, developed in
response to a 1965 UK Government report on
livestock husbandry.
The five freedoms for animal welfare:
1. Freedom from hunger and thirst - by
ready access to fresh water and diet to
maintain health and vigor.
2. Freedom from discomfort - by providing
an appropriate environment including
shelter and a comfortable resting area.
3. Freedom from pain, injury or disease - by
prevention or rapid diagnosis and
treatment.
4. Freedom to express normal behaviour -
by providing sufficient space, proper
facilities and company of the animal´s
own kind.
5. Freedom from fear and distress - by
ensuring conditions and treatment which
avoid mental suffering.
In the project there is a spatial potential for
coexistence between human and animal. The
architecture offers particular transitions between
the inside and the outside, and can be read as a
spectral structure that ranges from the maximum to
the minimum of space. It is a framework for
inhabitation, and a roof, walls, floors, ramps/stairs
and foundation are added to facilitate for the
everyday life for the human and the animal.
The roof handles the rainwater and the sun.
The walls control the wind.
The foundation helps the structure meet the
ground.
The floors facilitate for movement.
The stairs and the ramps give access to the
structure.submittedVersio
On the Grid – An Electrical Substation and Selfie Factory in New York
No full textThis project explores an electrical substation which uses the natural resource of narcissism and self-exposure to promote sustainable energy.
The substation is linked to an offshore wind farm which will provide green electricity to over a million New York homes in the coming years. And in those homes, without a doubt, people are using their electrically charged gadgets to access social media apps like Instagram. Posting pictures on social media has become a way of showing cultural and social capital. And for companies, social media has become an undeniable source in branding. Playing upon this tendency, the substation is opened to the public through a visitor’s path, providing photo opportunities which emphasize the different stages of electrical transformation happening in the machinery.submittedVersio