Diplomprosjekt
Winter, as an unexplored design subject, offers insights into how designers and planners can account for seasons. With a service and strategic design perspective, this diploma looks at the built environment to understand winter’s impact on society and how to design with and for winter in Oslo.
‘Illuminating Emotional Durability’ explores the emotional connections between us, consumers, and our cherished products with the goal of designing emotionally durable products. When we are attached to a product, we tend to take better care of it and are less likely to replace it prematurely. It’s interesting to focus on sustainability from a human-centered perspective. Often, as designers, we tend to emphasize on technical aspects when designing sustainable products, such as reducing materials and lowering energy consumption.
For people living a busy lifestyle, finding time for self-care can be challenging. However, health, longevity and a number of chronic-pains require to maintain regular physical activity. According to World Health Organisation adults ranging from 18-64 years are recommended to be in physical activity for 150-300 minutes each week. Adults who are in higher levels of physical activity reduces the risk of cancer, cardio-vascular diseases, obesitiy and depression.
Wild boar, Sus scrofa, is a native species in Hong Kong and provokes debates of wild life management among the government and the animal welfare groups due to increasing coexistence between wild boar and human. The design project investigates the olfactory perception through the lens of wild boar. Smellscape is crucial for wild boar management and an innovative smell spatial toolbox is developed for reforestation in country park planning.
Dead Hedge Experiments
This project is a strategy for re-insulating older notched-log buildings, specifically in the Norwegian context, with the use of textiles in the interior. Using the farmhouse “Sanne Nordre” from 1851 as a case, it is an alternative strategy critical to the conventional use of mineral wool, which usually ends up giving problems with moisture or disfiguring the building.
Urgent housing is for people without the capacity of finding a place to stay for the night or for a short period of time. Although the opportunity is intended for all homeless, regardless of their situation, there are most often people suffering from substance abuse living here. The debate in Arendal revolves around the unhealthy and unsafe urgent housing, especially in Torbjørnsbu. The area suffers from lack of care and interest and is described by the politicians and people in the local community as a ghetto.