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ORCHESTRATING FOR A SUSTAINABLE LOGSTICS and TRANSPORT SYSTEM How can Systems Oriented Design be a catalyst for meta-organizations addressing grand challenges.
Full text linkA fundamental transformation of systems requires changes across many layers, sectors and silos. In this thesis study I investigate how Systems Oriented Design (SOD) can enhance the efforts of meta-organizations and being a catalyst when addressing grand challenges in the socio-technical system of transport and logistics. Through broad desktop research, a comprehensive literature review, combined with real life experience and research through design, I have studied and discussed how – if at all - SOD adds value to processes of collaboration and co-creation in a meta-organizational context. I have concluded in six points describing how SOD offers a new perspective on designing meta-organizations, emphasizing adaptive design processes, alignment towards shared visions, and trust-building through dialogue. It provides versatile methods for fostering emergence, facilitating relationships, power balance and collaboration among diverse actors, serving as a catalyst for meta-organizational leadership. Together with this I have suggested a “Leadership guide” capturing what I have perceived to be the essence for meta-organizational leadership inspired by SOD. I strongly encourage further research within this field as my contribution just scratch the surface of a topic expected to be central moving forward, due to the increased complexity of our world.submittedVersio
Lab for Future Learning
No full textLab for Future Learning is an exploration aimed at helping high school students within the Chinese education system better prepare for unpredictable futures.
Nowadays, the Chinese education system, particularly at the high school level, is very industrial and primarily focuses on developing certain competencies and skills in students to attain desired grades and secure admission to prestigious universities. This single-minded focus neglects the fact that unpredictable futures demand greater preparedness and adaptability to a variety of crisis situations. Many high school students today are more like “machines,” proficient in many skills molded by the Chinese education system, rather than individuals with a clear vision and corresponding strategies on how to navigate the complexities of their future lives. It is critical to facilitate students’ all-around development by equipping them with a more comprehensive skill set.
The Lab for Future Learning is this project’s design proposal. It is a proposed course development organization that offers an innovative course called “Competencies for the Future” targeted at Chinese high school students. Additionally, it includes a digital platform that offers three service design interventions: a syllabus, a teaching toolkit, and a number of assessment methods to assist high school teachers in effectively delivering this course.
This service- and systems-oriented design project aims to introduce crucial competencies that enhance Chinese high school students’ adaptability and resilience in navigating future complexities. Simultaneously, the related services empower other stakeholders in the Chinese high school education system to create an environment that supports course development for students. It facilitates the collective effort that is needed to enable change and foster the long-term development of alternative values. Additionally, it brings fresh perspectives to the ongoing dialogue on the Chinese high school education system, fostering deeper reflection on the existing education model.submittedVersio
Love Letter From a Farm: Visions of landscape care and co-creation in the Carse* of Stirling
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Earthern Housing in Urban Contexts
No full textThe foundation of this diploma project is a desire to explore innovative construction techniques using ecologically sustainable materials within the urban context of Murbyen in central Oslo. Murbyen refers to the historic neighborhoods characterized by brick and masonry structures, built primarily between 1850 and 1910. The chosen site, Herslebs gate 31 in the neighborhoods of Tøyen, is an infill location within an old city block. This prompts a key question: What is today’s architectural response to creating a sustainable housing project in this historic context?
My academic journey at AHO, combined with two semesters of internship at OsloTre and hands-on experience as a carpenter, cultivated my interest in timber architecture and, subsequently, a deeper curiosity about natural materials. A research initiative led by Asplan Viak in collaboration with AHO, introduced the potential of clay-based materials. This initiative seeks to upcycle the vast surplus masses generated by Oslo’s large-scale infrastructure projects. These surplus materials possess properties akin to the original brickwork of Murbyen but demand entirely different building techniques.
This project combines historical sensitivity with ecological innovation, addressing the challenges of adapting traditional materials and methods to meet contemporary sustainability goals in Oslo’s urban fabric.submittedVersio
Between Building and Bridge
No full textBetween Building and Bridge is a hybrid, transformed by the approach of translation and appropriation of existing forms, materials, and historical qualities found in Stavanger. It houses a mix of light industry, apartments, and a kindergarten.
The project, set in Pedersgata 93 in Storhaug, Stavanger, inhabits the interstitial space created by the intersection of Stavanger City Bridge and the partially decapitated remains of Stavanger-Fjord Packing LTD cannery, now turned car mechanic Nevlands. The proposal builds on the principles behind transit-oriented development, but applies them to a smaller, more local scale befit the pedestrian, and suited for a single building. An urban node, or “knutepunkt” (from the better Norwegian term for transit-oriented development, that emphasizes the condensing of activities, rather than just transit) is created by the mixing of programs inhabiting the structure, as well as new pedestrian connections across the site. These connections are both horizontal and vertical, by way of a public elevator to the bridge. The different programs present in the building are a continuation of the light industry that currently is there, 18 apartments to supersede the 10 existing ones, and a kindergarten with a historical link to the cannery industry’s urban node tendencies of providing extra services to their employees in the vicinity.
The formal language is a hybrid between translated forms from the old cannery, lost in the demolition by the bridge, and materials appropriated from infrastructural elements. The reintroduced forms attempt to revive an industrial character and scale that the site longs for, and the traffic barriers and signs that make up the facade activates the infrastructural presence, making it deliberate rather than something intrusive and destructive.
By interconnecting the bridge and the building, and by blending together a new hybrid language, the proposal seeks resilience as that of a symbiont relationship. The threat of obsolescence is no longer contingent on one structures usefulness, as the bridge can depend on the building, and the building can depend on the bridge.
The proposal stays in keeping with the contextual language of the area, based on bricolage and overlaying of different forms and styles. It writes itself upon an already complex palimpsest, becoming the next but not last layer in the deep stratification that is Stavanger.submittedVersio
Manufacturing Project
No full textManufacturing project accepts a research by design to gain practical industrial design knowledge through the hands-on experience during the design process from ideation of floss holder to the manufacturing phase.
This industrial design and engineering project focuses on conducting research by design, emphasizing the product design, prototyping, and devlopment of new ideas. The goal is to ensure that the resulting designs are warkable, viable, and manufacturable. My personal objective is to create products that en-courage better user choices, expand my skills in design, production, and sustainability.
The project highlights understanding production processes such as injection molding method, selecting appropriate materials and managing factors like time scales and cost estimates. Collaborating with factories provides real-world experience in transforming an idea into a manufacturable product.
My diploma project represents the initial phase, focusing on creating and testing a trial inejction mold. The plan is to refine the design and aim for mass production if progress is successful in 2025. Though one semester is insufficient for full completion, my aim is to develop the mold and observe the manufacturing process, recognizing the resources and collaboration needed to achieve this goal.
The product developed for this manufacturing project is a floss holder primarily intended for use in the bathroom, as flossing is most effective when combined with toothbrushing. The design goal is to create a sustainable, user-friendly floss holder with aesthetically pleasing features. The floss holder offers an intuitive and simple leverage mechanism with teeth solution to securely hold the floss, an ergonomic universal handle grip, and built-in storage for a refill cartridge to enhance usability.
The product features a reusable floss holder with a floss cartridge. Two cartridges are installed in the storage compartment of the handle and each provides up to 100 uses, replacing 100 disposable floss picks. This makes it a more sustainable option, reducing waste by approximately 50 times compared to using single-use floss picks. For the floss holder, ABS is used to ensure durability, while the floss cartridge is made from PP to increase recyclability.
The chosen production method is trial injection molding, which allows for testing the form, functionality, and usability of the product. This production process was the key practical task in bringing the initial concept to life. By actively participating in the process, I gained a better understanding of the requirements for advancing in production, including engineering design, materials selection and the production method. To achieve the desired results, effective collaboration with stakeholders, including engineers and factory facilities, is essential, in addition to thoughtful design.submittedVersio
Fra strategier og idéer til realisering – Hvordan kan ambisjonene i strategiske dokumenter og prosjekter sikres frem til ferdig utbygging? Fallgruver og virkemidler. Ski sentrum syd som studiecase. Arkitektur- og
Full text linkI dagens planleggingssystem finnes både formelle og uformelle verktøy som er ment å forvalte og sikre ambisjoner og kvaliteter i strategier og i prosjekter, både i stor og liten skala. Oppgavens bakteppe er teorier om hvordan strategisk byplanlegging og Plan- og bygningsloven benyttes som styringssystemer for å sikre kvaliteter gjennom en helhetsprosess fra strategi til ferdig utvikling. Gjennom ni intervjuer samt en studiecase analyseres det hvordan disse systemene anvendes i praksis, og med det belyses svakheter
(fallgruver) og forslag til hvordan disse kan unngås (hjelpemidler). Teorier diskuteres opp imot praksis, for å konkludere med noen refleksjoner om hvordan systemet og praksis kan forbedres for å sikre kvaliteter gjennom en prosess fra strategi frem til en ferdig utvikling.In today’s planning systems, there are both formal and informal tools designed to manage and ensure ambitions and qualities in strategies and projects, both on a large and small scale. The background for this assignment is to explore how Strategic Urban Planning and the Planning and Building Act (Plan- og bygningsloven) should be utilized as governance systems to secure qualities throughout a holistic process from strategy to completed development. Subsequently, through the results of nine interviews and a case study, an analysis is conducted of how these systems are applied in practice, shedding light on weaknesses (pitfalls) and proposing ways to avoid them (tools). Theory is discussed in relation to practice, drawing conclusions on how the system and practices can be improved to ensure qualities throughout a process from strategy to final development.submittedVersio
Digital inditet
No full textDenne diplomoppgaven handler om elektronisk identitet (elD), som enkelt forklart er en sikker innloggingsl0sning som bekrefter brukeres identitet ved bruk av digitale tjenester. Den raske utviklingen og utbredelsen av elD har vcert en grunnpilar for mye av digitaliseringen i Norge bade i nceringslivet og i offentlig sektor, selv om det ikke er en spesielt kjent forkortelse for de fleste. Jeg ble introdusert for elD gjennom en workshop som jeg og Mira Krogh fasiliterte for ID juristene ved UiO, sommeren 2022. Denne workshopen apnet 0ynene
mine for den samfunnsmessige betydningen til elD, sett gjennom perspektivet til offer for identitetstyveri.submittedVersio
Architecture at the Building Site Challenging the Separation between Design and Construction
Full text linkThis thesis makes the case for an architecture that emerges through the process of construction. The research investigates how, within the context of industrialised England from 1830 to 1980, the historic separation between designing and building in the production of architecture developed, and how it continues to define our contemporary building culture. It focusses on the impact of this development on labour and construction, and examines both the agency of those who construct, and the role of the architect, particularly as understood through drawings and related documentation. The research reviews critiques of this ‘partitioning’ and looks at ways in which it has been challenged through alternative models of architectural practice. The research is structured around studies of three buildings sites. I have read the construction of the Great Stove at Chatsworth in the 1830s, to Joseph Paxton’s design, as exemplar of the impact of the factory system and machinery on the production of architecture, with the resulting replacement on site of skilled craftsmen by unskilled labour. Following this, William Lethaby, working within the context of the Arts and Crafts in the 1890s and early 1900s, changed his working methodology, producing fewer drawing before construction, to integrate craftsmen into an ongoing design process at the building site. And from the 1960s onwards, Walter Segal, in developing a radically simplified construction methodology, sought to make designing and building accessible to all. In arguing that architects (and architecture) should re-embrace construction, the temporal process and labour of building, and the creative space of the building site, the thesis proposes – despite all the obstacles - both a political project of renewed agency within the production of architecture, and a parallel revitalisation of the architectural artefact.aacceptedVersio