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Start semester

40 554 Speculative futures #1 Europe in transition: Venice case

Studiepoeng: 
24
Full course name in English: 
Speculative futures #1 Europe in transition: Venice case
Emnekode: 
40 554
Studienivå: 
Syklus 2
Undervisningssemester: 
2023 Høst
Eksamenssemester: 
2023 Høst
Undervisningsspråk: 
Engelsk
År: 
2023
Maksimum antall studenter: 
16
Emneansvarlig
Lisbeth Funck
Matthew Anderson
Forkunnskapskrav

Admission to AHO and successful completion of three years bachelor level studies (180 ECTS).

Part of course series: Speculative futures

The course is open to students from: Architecture and Landscape architecture

Om emnet

Studio Positions propose an ongoing program of research and studio teaching within the framework of Speculative futures, through work based and theoretical research. Over four semesters the studio aims to question and develop innovative critical and sustainable approaches to architecture, positioning ourselves in relation to: 

  • Cases studies – including art, architecture, and places, 
  • Language – to frame architectural concepts and reflection, 
  • Philosophy – ecological theory, aesthetic theory, gender/queer theory,  
  • Ethics

In autumn 2023, the studio is part of a European collaboration project (BIP) with five other architecture schools in Europe. The program will focus on  "the mutation of the built types and unbuilt spaces with regard to upheavals in uses and practices, climate change or new materials and construction techniques, cultural and political revolutions. This sharing of inter-university knowledge will allow students, researchers and teachers to become aware of the place of architecture in the face of the various crises that Europe is going through, a critical position inscribed in the architectural discipline. The work will thus aim at the search for architectural contributions to the transformation and quality of habitat in the broad sense of the term." 

Læringsutbytte

Knowledge:  

  • practice knowledge through case studies,  
  • practice knowledge through architectural design (semester project), 
  • material and structural knowledge

Skills: 

  • work based and theoretical research skills, 
  • conceptual architectural thinking, 
  • interpret and convert theoretical data into disciplinary interpretation

General competence: 

  • critical thinking, and 
  • ability to develop an argument through an architectural project and written reflection. 
Praktisk organisering og arbeidsmåter

How it is organized (brief description of content and teaching): 

With these starting positions, students work towards an architectural project through three phases: 

  1. Framing an architectural concept 
  2. Imagining a life (scale, materiality, activity, accessibility, structure) 
  3. An architectural project 

This work is accompanied by continuous written reflection (words) to be discussed in workshops. 

The studio emphasizes and facilitates peer-review of works and words as a vital aspect of the learning environment. 

Excursion:

Study trip and workshop in Venice in October. The students will receive a travel grant (financed by the BIP program).

At the end of the workshop, the students will be able to: 

  • make a diagnosis and motivate an intervention on foreign territory, 
  • work in international and multidisciplinary teams to present a common design, 
  • synthesize pluridisciplinary and multicultural opinions in a coherent discourse, communicated through drawing, written and oral speech 
  • defend an innovative project by argumentation before an international jury. 

Those who do not have the opportunity to participate in an excursion will be given an assignment/a project that replaces this.

Pensum

Course literature will be available in Leganto.

Obligatorisk arbeidskravPåkrevde arbeidskravOppmøte påkrevdKommentar
Øvinger Ikke påkrevdIt is compulsory to hand in work on given dates stated in the semester calendar. Mandatory work requirements must be met for the project assignment to be assessed.
Obligatoriske arbeidskrav:
Obligatorisk arbeidskrav:Øvinger
Påkrevde arbeidskrav:
Oppmøte påkrevd:Ikke påkrevd
Kommentar:It is compulsory to hand in work on given dates stated in the semester calendar. Mandatory work requirements must be met for the project assignment to be assessed.
VurderingsformGrupperingKarakterskalaKommentar
Prosjektoppgave-Bestått / ikke beståttThe students work on a given/selected project throughout the course and the assessment is based on an assignment that counts for 100% of the grade.

The students present the final project work orally to the examiners and the oral presentation itself is part of the assessment.

Final project can consist of, among other things drawings (sections and plans), models, illustrations and text. Final submission requirements are detailed on Moodle.
Vurderinger:
Vurderingsform:Prosjektoppgave
Gruppering:-
Karakterskala:Bestått / ikke bestått
Kommentar:The students work on a given/selected project throughout the course and the assessment is based on an assignment that counts for 100% of the grade.

The students present the final project work orally to the examiners and the oral presentation itself is part of the assessment.

Final project can consist of, among other things drawings (sections and plans), models, illustrations and text. Final submission requirements are detailed on Moodle.
AktivitetKommentar
OppmøteParticipation and attendance in lectures, supervision at the desks in the studio, seminars and workshops is expected.
EkskursjonThose who do not have the opportunity to participate in an excursion will be given an assignment/a project that replaces this.
Forventet arbeidsinnsats:
Aktivitet:Oppmøte
Kommentar:Participation and attendance in lectures, supervision at the desks in the studio, seminars and workshops is expected.
Aktivitet:Ekskursjon
Kommentar:Those who do not have the opportunity to participate in an excursion will be given an assignment/a project that replaces this.

Start semester

70 700 Pre-Diplom Design

Studiepoeng: 
6
Full course name in English: 
Pre-diploma Design
Emnekode: 
70 700
Studienivå: 
Syklus 2
Undervisningssemester: 
2023 Høst
Eksamenssemester: 
2023 Høst
Undervisningsspråk: 
Norsk/Engelsk
År: 
2023
Emneansvarlig
Rachel Troye
Forkunnskapskrav

Fullført 240 studiepoeng totalt.

Om emnet

Prediplomkurset tar sikte på å hjelpe studentene til å utvikle et solid utgangspunkt for diplomprosjektene, som gjør at de kan starte design-/forskningsprosessen med et solid kunnskapgrunnlag, en kritisk holdning og en tydelig plan.

Valg av tema er i utgangspunktet opp til den enkelte student, og retningen er hovedsakelig resultatet av samtaler mellom hver enkelt student og veileder, instituttleder og kurspersonale.

Kurset er organisert i to hovedfaser. Den første fasen fokuserer både på den enkelte students egne ferdigheter og valg av tema for prosjektet. Denne første fasen presenteres og vurderes i form av en presentasjon i løpet av semesteret (etter ca. en måned). Den andre fasen dreier seg om å designe det faktiske prosjektet, med et gjennomførbart prosjektforslag som viktigste og eneste innlevering.

 

 

Læringsutbytte

KUNNSKAPER

- En velreflektert, konstruktiv og kritisk holdning til egne faglige interesser, styrker og svakheter.

FERDIGHETER
- Kunne selge inn konsepter til både fagfeller og potensielle veiledere og partnere.

- Kunne utvikle et gjennomførbart diplomprosjekt slik det kreves av Institutt for design ved AHO.

- Kunne planlegge et selvstendig eller gruppebasert prosjekt.

GENERELL KOMPETANSE
- Kunne formidle egen modenhet som designer på et nivå som gjør det sannsynlig at et diplomprosjekt ved AHO får et positivt utfall.

- Kunne konseptualisere design ideer inn i en gjennomførbar prosjektbeskrivelse

- Ha evne til å legge frem, diskutere og planlegge et selvstendig studium og design prosjekt.

 

 

 

Praktisk organisering og arbeidsmåter

Kurset vil bestå av forelesninger, egen utforskning og skriving med presentasjoner og veiledning.

VurderingsformGrupperingKarakterskalaKommentar
RapportIndividuellBestått / ikke beståttStudenten er selv ansvarlig for å ta initiativ for avtale om veiledning med både hoved- og bi-veileder. Videre må studenten levere et oppgitt antall delinnleveringer og presentere disse i følge en oppsatt timeplan i kurset. Den endelige sluttinnleveringen består av den ferdigstilte prosjekt beskrivelsen levert skriftlig og en presentasjon av den i plenum. Begge deler er obligatoriske. Et bestått kurs krever godkjent skriftlig prosjektbeskrivelse og en muntlig presentasjon.
Vurderinger:
Vurderingsform:Rapport
Gruppering:Individuell
Karakterskala:Bestått / ikke bestått
Kommentar:Studenten er selv ansvarlig for å ta initiativ for avtale om veiledning med både hoved- og bi-veileder. Videre må studenten levere et oppgitt antall delinnleveringer og presentere disse i følge en oppsatt timeplan i kurset. Den endelige sluttinnleveringen består av den ferdigstilte prosjekt beskrivelsen levert skriftlig og en presentasjon av den i plenum. Begge deler er obligatoriske. Et bestått kurs krever godkjent skriftlig prosjektbeskrivelse og en muntlig presentasjon.

Start semester

40 557 Transformation in Practice: Extensions

Studiepoeng: 
24
Full course name in English: 
Transformation in Practice: Extensions
Emnekode: 
40 557
Studienivå: 
Syklus 2
Undervisningssemester: 
2023 Høst
Eksamenssemester: 
2023 Høst
Undervisningsspråk: 
Engelsk
År: 
2023
Maksimum antall studenter: 
16
Emneansvarlig
Amandine Kastler
Erlend Skjeseth
Forkunnskapskrav

Admission to AHO and successful completion of three years bachelor level studies (180 ECTS).

Part of course series: Transformation in Practice

The course is open to students from: Architecture

Om emnet

No longer a fringe pursuit, transformation will arguably in large part be the future of architectural practice. The demand for a more sustainable building culture necessitates reuse first and new-build second. However, these seemingly opposing approaches are not mutually exclusive, as adapting an existing building for continued or new use frequently involves transformation through addition.

This semester the Transformation in Practice studio will center on the city's periphery to build into, on top of and around Oslo's suburban idyll. The studio will employ a typical architectural commission, transforming and extending an ordinary detached house. Designing domestic extensions in the suburbs is often the bread and butter of architectural practice in the early years. Although the mundane world of suburbia may feel like a stepping stone towards more lofty commissions, they usually entail modest size projects that require complex problem-solving. Nevertheless, they often hold the seeds of more significant ideas. So, the reciprocal ecosystem of house and garden will be essential as the studio asks: ‘is densification possible without the wasteful demolition of existing buildings and environments?’

The residential neighbourhoods of Oslo are a patchwork. The townhouses of Ullevål Hageby or Arctanderbyen are modeled on the British garden cities. The Byggmesterfunkis in Tåsen and Vinderen are Norwegian interpretations of Bauhaus modernism. Sveitserstil in Nordstrand travelled from the Berlin school of the mid-nineteenth century before finding its way into the design of domestic houses along the newly built Norwegian railway. Many of the timber buildings in Rodeløkka are vernacular houses moved from the outskirts of Oslo during the Industrial Revolution. Between these categorisable types is a plethora of ordinary suburban vernaculars that freely mimic, translate, and appropriate their neighbours while showing a noteworthy resistance to the influence of "High Architecture".

More than two-thirds of Oslo's inhabitants live outside the inner city, making the need to densify existing neighbourhoods a point of contention. The current dilemma is how to handle a forecast of continued growth inside a perimeter that is sanctified to protect the natural environments surrounding it. Crossing the line towards the outback is a no-go zone, and there is strong opposition to building tall buildings. One of the primary sustainability strategies involves increasing density within already built-up areas to diminish the need for cars, reducing CO2 emissions and protecting green spaces in urban environments.

The changing regulation for building individual houses has the clear ambition of preventing further densification of suburban areas with detached housing. While city officials are considering the implications of such a revision, the municipality put a temporary building ban in place. A divisive measure, the building ban was lifted on the 15th of February this year. In the age of climate change and circular economy, the value of everything that already exists increases. Desirable, yet environmentally inefficient, the detached house with its private garden will need to be radically reimagined.

This is architecture as general practice, working on ordinary everyday things. Working within the constraints and resources of a particular site and its environs, the studio will engage with the changing measures put in place by the regulations. The output of the studio will consist of well resolved projects with distinctive formal qualities built on clear intentions. The new architecture of the extension must enhance the existing place through a more sustainable form of development, one of addition without subtraction. Depending on the site, projects will engage with the transformation, connection and extension of existing buildings, as well the design of autonomous new additions.

The studio is closely linked to the practice work of Kastler Skjeseth Architects.

It is recommended to take the Restore: Values elective course in conjunction with this studio. The studio is part of the research project “Provenance Projected. Architecture Past and Future in the Era of Circularity”, run by Mari Lending and Erik Langdalen.

Læringsutbytte

Knowledge:

  • Document and interpret the current condition, both quantitative and qualitative, of an existing building or site using architectural drawing convention.
  • Formulate individual architectural proposals based on close observation and analysis of existing conditions and identify the architectural qualities in one's own work that demonstrate a relevance to the field. 
  • Understand the basic regulatory frameworks that govern architectural projects, such as zoning plans and heritage guidelines, assess their impact on one’s own architectural project.
  • Convey through oral presentation and writing an understanding of the key terms, definitions, and concepts of preservation and situate them relative to with to one’s own architectural project.

Skills:

  • Independently undertake a precise measured survey of a site, using analogue and digital surveying technology.
  • Design and build large scale material models as an approach to transform existing buildings and places.
  • Develop and architectural project using a research driven approach to working with existing buildings. This will involve working with archives and fieldwork

General competence: 

  • Students will learn to practice as an architect within the field of building transformation.
Praktisk organisering og arbeidsmåter

A guiding notion for the course is that research, in its variety of forms, cannot be distinguished from ‘propositional thinking’. Rather, the act of reading, observing, surveying and fabricating new artefacts is all propositional by nature and therefore a powerful asset within design thinking.

The studio will be organised in three parts:

Survey: The studio will lend considerable attention to understanding context through fieldwork and surveying. Students will work on-site in the suburbs of Oslo to study variations in building culture, style and typology.

Artefact: The survey will be the foundation for the artefact, a large-scale material model that starts the inverted design process from fragment to building. The model is a physical and material manifestation of an essential component or junction found in the survey, translated into a three-dimensional piece at a detailed scale.

Proposal: Students will work iteratively to construct an architectural project that has contemporary relevance while engaging with the existing buildings and their gardens. Building on close observations of the context, students will develop their own architectural and technical agenda based on an understanding of current challenges.

Projects will answer to the specifics of the building while being relevant to the broader discourse on the future of this type of building. The architectural proposal will be developed through large-scale material models, both analogue and digital, and architectural drawings. Craft will inform contemporary construction methods and material exploration by learning from what has already been built.

The different work phases will be supported by workshops and seminars.

Case studies will form a collective repertoire of techniques for extending existing buildings that range in scale and character.

Pensum

Course literature will be available in Leganto.

Obligatorisk arbeidskravPåkrevde arbeidskravOppmøte påkrevdKommentar
Oppmøte til undervisning PåkrevdAttendance and design production for twice-weekly studio meetings, attendance and presentation at mid-term, interim review and final crit is mandatory.
Obligatoriske arbeidskrav:
Obligatorisk arbeidskrav:Oppmøte til undervisning
Påkrevde arbeidskrav:
Oppmøte påkrevd:Påkrevd
Kommentar:Attendance and design production for twice-weekly studio meetings, attendance and presentation at mid-term, interim review and final crit is mandatory.
VurderingsformGrupperingKarakterskalaKommentar
Vurderingsmappe-Bestått / ikke beståttThe final grade in the course will be given based on:
- Attendance and design production for twice-weekly studio meetings: 30%
- Mid review and Interim review presentation: 30%
- Final review presentation: 40%
The oral presentation is a part of the portfolio assessment.

Mid review, Interim review and Final review: Work presented for the Mid review, the Interim review and the Final review will be evaluated according to the following criteria:

- Conceptual Clarity: Students should demonstrate proactive engagement with the material and self-motivated intellectual pursuits that enhance their design ambitions. Students are expected to clearly articulate their ambitions and the intellectual underpinnings of their work in pin-ups and desk crits.

- Technique: Students are expected to execute all assignments with care and precision.

Assignments will be evaluated not only on the basis of the ideas but also to a large degree on the quality of the execution. Students are responsible for planning sufficient time for developing appropriate and thorough representations.

Portfolio: The care taken in the compilation and design of the portfolio the presentation of physical models will be considered in the final assessment. The portfolio is to be formatted and printed at A2 or larger. Each student will also be required to design a portfolio booklet at A3 to accompany the printed portfolio.
Vurderinger:
Vurderingsform:Vurderingsmappe
Gruppering:-
Karakterskala:Bestått / ikke bestått
Kommentar:The final grade in the course will be given based on:
- Attendance and design production for twice-weekly studio meetings: 30%
- Mid review and Interim review presentation: 30%
- Final review presentation: 40%
The oral presentation is a part of the portfolio assessment.

Mid review, Interim review and Final review: Work presented for the Mid review, the Interim review and the Final review will be evaluated according to the following criteria:

- Conceptual Clarity: Students should demonstrate proactive engagement with the material and self-motivated intellectual pursuits that enhance their design ambitions. Students are expected to clearly articulate their ambitions and the intellectual underpinnings of their work in pin-ups and desk crits.

- Technique: Students are expected to execute all assignments with care and precision.

Assignments will be evaluated not only on the basis of the ideas but also to a large degree on the quality of the execution. Students are responsible for planning sufficient time for developing appropriate and thorough representations.

Portfolio: The care taken in the compilation and design of the portfolio the presentation of physical models will be considered in the final assessment. The portfolio is to be formatted and printed at A2 or larger. Each student will also be required to design a portfolio booklet at A3 to accompany the printed portfolio.
AktivitetKommentar
OppmøteStudents are expected to be present and working during all studio meetings, which occur twice a week. Students are also expected to be present during all seminars and reviews. Absences from studio meetings and reviews will affect the final grade and multiple unexcused absences can result in course failure.

Students will be expected to work on site for parts of the semester. Teaching will consist of twice-weekly tutorials, seminars, peer to peer feedback sessions, pin-ups and reviews with invited critics. Students are expected to be active participants, to attend all trips, studio meetings, pin-ups and reviews, while keeping up with a rigorous level of production. This studio is a fulltime commitment.
EkskursjonThose who do not have the opportunity to participate in an excursion will be given an assignment/a project that replaces this.
Forventet arbeidsinnsats:
Aktivitet:Oppmøte
Kommentar:Students are expected to be present and working during all studio meetings, which occur twice a week. Students are also expected to be present during all seminars and reviews. Absences from studio meetings and reviews will affect the final grade and multiple unexcused absences can result in course failure.

Students will be expected to work on site for parts of the semester. Teaching will consist of twice-weekly tutorials, seminars, peer to peer feedback sessions, pin-ups and reviews with invited critics. Students are expected to be active participants, to attend all trips, studio meetings, pin-ups and reviews, while keeping up with a rigorous level of production. This studio is a fulltime commitment.
Aktivitet:Ekskursjon
Kommentar:Those who do not have the opportunity to participate in an excursion will be given an assignment/a project that replaces this.

Start semester

40 556 TAP 3 Buildings

Studiepoeng: 
24
Full course name in English: 
TAP 3 Buildings
Emnekode: 
40 556
Studienivå: 
Syklus 2
Undervisningssemester: 
2023 Høst
Eksamenssemester: 
2023 Høst
Undervisningsspråk: 
Engelsk
År: 
2023
Maksimum antall studenter: 
16
Emneansvarlig
Beate Hølmebakk
Forkunnskapskrav

Admission to AHO and successful completion of three years bachelor level studies (180 ECTS).

Part of course series: TAP - The Architectural Project

The course is open to students from: Architecture

Om emnet

The main goal of the studio is to give students systematic disciplinary training as well as design skills. The studio will be oriented towards the professional practice, focusing on architectural design of a given brief within a tight schedule. During the course, the students will develop three individual projects. Each project will be reviewed in a final presentation at the end of each project period. Thus, the studio will demand intensive work throughout the entire semester.

The three projects will focus on responsible building production through critical explorations of the following concepts: size, longevity, optimalization, adaption and reuse. Each project will have a specific architectural brief formulated by the studio teachers. The briefs will be fully developed before the beginning of the semester.

Project I: I Start 16./08. 2023 Review 22./09. 2023
Project II: Us Start 25./09. 2023 Review 27./10. 2023
Project III: All Start 30./10. 2023 Review 08./12. 2023

Læringsutbytte

Knowledge:

  • Responsible building production
  • Design methodology

Skills:

  • Architectural conceptualization
  • Architectural argumentation
  • Architectural representation

General competence:

  • Definition of design criteria
  • Curation of architectural process
  • Communication of architectural proposal
Praktisk organisering og arbeidsmåter

There will be a set semester schedule and a detailed program every week:

  • Mondays: Lecture and plenum discussions based on relevant texts.
  • Wednesdays: Individual desk crit according to schedule.
  • Fridays: Pin-up where students are encouraged to engage in each other’s work.

Each project will be reviewed collectively with an external critic. There will be different critics for each project, each chosen for their relevance to the project theme.

Final assessment will based on all 3 projects, at the end of the semester.

Pensum

Course literature will be available in Leganto.

Obligatorisk arbeidskravPåkrevde arbeidskravOppmøte påkrevdKommentar
Øvinger3PåkrevdIt is compulsory to hand in and present work on given dates stated in the semester calendar. All three projects are to be submitted before final assessment.
Obligatoriske arbeidskrav:
Obligatorisk arbeidskrav:Øvinger
Påkrevde arbeidskrav:3
Oppmøte påkrevd:Påkrevd
Kommentar:It is compulsory to hand in and present work on given dates stated in the semester calendar. All three projects are to be submitted before final assessment.
VurderingsformGrupperingKarakterskalaKommentar
Vurderingsmappe-Bestått / ikke beståttFinal assessment of work carried out in several stages throughout the semester. One overall grade is assigned to the folder.
Vurderinger:
Vurderingsform:Vurderingsmappe
Gruppering:-
Karakterskala:Bestått / ikke bestått
Kommentar:Final assessment of work carried out in several stages throughout the semester. One overall grade is assigned to the folder.
AktivitetKommentar
OppmøteParticipation and attendance in lectures, supervision at the desks in the studio, seminars and workshops is expected.
EkskursjonThose who do not have the opportunity to participate in an excursion will be given an assignment/a project that replaces this.
Forventet arbeidsinnsats:
Aktivitet:Oppmøte
Kommentar:Participation and attendance in lectures, supervision at the desks in the studio, seminars and workshops is expected.
Aktivitet:Ekskursjon
Kommentar:Those who do not have the opportunity to participate in an excursion will be given an assignment/a project that replaces this.

Start semester

40 555 Subject Matter: Rocks + Thoughts

Studiepoeng: 
24
Full course name in English: 
Subject Matter: Rocks + Thoughts
Emnekode: 
40 555
Studienivå: 
Syklus 2
Undervisningssemester: 
2023 Høst
Eksamenssemester: 
2023 Høst
Undervisningsspråk: 
Engelsk
År: 
2023
Maksimum antall studenter: 
16
Emneansvarlig
Thomas McQuillan
Forkunnskapskrav

Admission to AHO and successful completion of three years bachelor level studies (180 ECTS).

Part of course series: Subject Matter

The course is open to students from: Architecture and Landscape Architecture

Om emnet

What should we be thinking about today?

This course will examine time in architecture and care in the extraction of material, to address sustainability as a basis of value. If we grasp the limitation of our time in relation to the eternity of the rock as a material, we might be able to design with a greater care for our environment.

At the cusp of the Anthropocene, we have begun to think differently about how materials are extracted and refined, and how they might repurposed in the future.  With the growth of the idea of circularity and reuse, buildings can be seen as a ‘pause’ in the circulation of materials from the sites of their extraction to further future use whose conditions are unknown. As allied with the Provenance Projected project, this studio will study the origins of materials and their potential use as poetic markers of our time.

The students will be asked to design a space that questions how we think about our time. The project should deal with rock as a material, either extracted and transformed or in a natural state. In juxtaposition to this, the students will be asked to pair this material with one that addresses a different perspective of time: something fluid, transformable, shifting or immaterial.

Our teaching method aims to see each individual in their search for meaning and purpose in their development of professional core values. We see  education as a time when students are able to develop ideas and meaning about their work and pay attention to what kind of architect and human being they would like to be. This requires independent thought, but also a sensitivity towards the fact that nothing is singular, but plural. For this reason, we see the studio as a whole group, and each project as a contribution to a larger discussion. We require the students to be involved in that common discussion.

Læringsutbytte

Knowledge:

  • Knowledge of how a particular material comes about
  • Knowledge of the historical uses of a particular material
  • Knowledge of the environmental impact of a particular material

Skills:

  • The ability to conduct research
  • The ability to work with a particular material
  • The ability to design with and specify a particular material

General competence:

  • Competence in presenting ideas in word, image and artifact
Praktisk organisering og arbeidsmåter

The course is organized as collaborative studio in which student participation is essential. A weekly schedule includes lectures, tutorials and plenum discussions.

Excursion:

We believe that the study trip is an essential part of architectural education and see it as integral to the development of spatial awareness. There are several options for a destination. A final choice will be made by the course as a whole at the start of the semester.

Pensum

Course literature will be available in Leganto.

Obligatorisk arbeidskravPåkrevde arbeidskravOppmøte påkrevdKommentar
Oppmøte til undervisning PåkrevdStudents are required to attend tutorials and plenum discussions no less than 80%.

Attendance at reviews (3 per semester) is mandatory.

Students are required to present new work at each weekly meeting.
Obligatoriske arbeidskrav:
Obligatorisk arbeidskrav:Oppmøte til undervisning
Påkrevde arbeidskrav:
Oppmøte påkrevd:Påkrevd
Kommentar:Students are required to attend tutorials and plenum discussions no less than 80%.

Attendance at reviews (3 per semester) is mandatory.

Students are required to present new work at each weekly meeting.
VurderingsformGrupperingKarakterskalaKommentar
Prosjektoppgave-Bestått / ikke beståttThe students work on a given/selected project throughout the course and the assessment is based on an assignment that counts for 100% of the grade.
The students present the final project work orally to the examiners and the oral presentation itself is part of the assessment.
Vurderinger:
Vurderingsform:Prosjektoppgave
Gruppering:-
Karakterskala:Bestått / ikke bestått
Kommentar:The students work on a given/selected project throughout the course and the assessment is based on an assignment that counts for 100% of the grade.
The students present the final project work orally to the examiners and the oral presentation itself is part of the assessment.
AktivitetKommentar
EkskursjonThose who do not have the opportunity to participate in an excursion will be given an assignment/a project that replaces this.
Forventet arbeidsinnsats:
Aktivitet:Ekskursjon
Kommentar:Those who do not have the opportunity to participate in an excursion will be given an assignment/a project that replaces this.

Start semester

70 504 Systems Oriented Design: Design for Very Complex System

Full course name in English: 
Systems Oriented Design: Design for Very Complex System
Studiepoeng: 
24
Emnekode: 
70 504
Studienivå: 
Syklus 2
Undervisningssemester: 
2023 Høst
Eksamenssemester: 
2023 Høst
Undervisningsspråk: 
Norsk/Engelsk
År: 
2023
Maksimum antall studenter: 
30
Emneansvarlig
Andreas Wettre
Forkunnskapskrav

Passed foundation level (BA-level) courses at AHO in design or architecture or equivalent, 180 ECTS.

The course is open for all programmes; design, architecture, urbanism and landscape architecture students and is mainly open to 3. semester master students.

Om emnet

Learn to work with complexity – using Systems Oriented Design

For dealing with the complexity and uncertainty of complex contexts of interconnected social and ecological problems, a systems approach is needed to enhance the ability of the designer to design solutions that address the underlying drivers of the socio-ecological crises. This systems approach will empower students with the ability to rapidly learn and understand the complexity of the context to find the most effective places in the system to design interventions that are relevant to addressing the problems. The SOD methodology is applicable in any context and scale, from sustainable product design, better childcare services, to policy design to sustainability transitions of tourisme and society at large. An essential part of SOD is to use design skills to visualize complexity.

The methodology can also be used within a spatial framework, where one can focus on the spaces and places of a system as the drivers of the design project. Through the application of SOD to the fields of landscape architecture and architecture the course poses a challenge of expanding student’s work to address their spatial interests at a systematic context with a cross-scalar and transdisciplinary lens.

This SOD fall masters course invites you to get on the dance floor and jointly explore and play with ideas that are rooted in systems thinking and design doing. Through hands-on approaches and tools, you'll be able to take a systemic perspective to nurture your design practice to create things that are relevant to the complex world at different scales, from products to services to experiences to sustainability transitions of entire systems. It will allow you to learn how to use the toolbox you already know and expand it. If you are a curious person who likes to puzzle and have fun with exploring a context broadly and figure out what would be relevant to design to make systemic impacts, you have found the right course for you!

If you have done the “Introduction to SOD” in your 3rd year at AHO you will find that we in this course go deeper into SOD and adapting your thinking and skills in a different context.

If you want more information look up the menu Projects/Master projects at the website https://systemsorienteddesign.net

Teachers on the course: Andreas Wettre, Abel Crawford, Jonathan Romm, Corbin Raymond and Birger Sevaldson.

Læringsutbytte

Knowledge: Students will be introduced to System Oriented Design (SOD) as a method and approach, to:

  • Develop a sensibility for systems, relationships and consequences: cause and effect, to think of how systems are embedded within different domains and different scales
  • Visualize complexity, and using these visualizations as a tool to understand and find interventions to improve the systems
  • Deal with uncertainty through unfolding and understanding complexity while working with “problematiques” (multiple interlinked problems)
  • Anticipate futures through developing an ability to understand and consider multiple future scenarios and evaluate the possible, probable and desirable, developing both individual and participatory visions of the future.
  • Anticipate thresholds for implementation and impacts of designed solutions.
  • Rich design space for working with interventions in complex problematiques
  • Critically think and self-reflect through considering questioning the norms, values influencing the opinions, behavior and decisions of yourself and the stakeholders they are designing for.
  • Considering your role as a designer and citizen in the local community and global society.
  • Navigate sustainability by being exposed to the state of the world and guiding design criteria for sustainability Regenerative, Resilient, Circular, Cross-scale design through a critical lens

Skills: Students will acquire skills in:

  • SOD as process-led methodology
  • Visualizing complexity and utilizing Rich Design Space
  • Research by design methodology
  • Systems Thinking
  • Sustainability Science
  • Critical Thinking
  • Dealing with uncertainty
  • Collaboration through interdisciplinary problem solving in groups
  • Visioning
  • Design Implementation plans
  • Workshop facilitation

General competence: 

Students will be able to use SOD methodology to understand and tackle complex problems and to utilize systems thinking.

Holistic perspectives, ethics and sustainability as well as cultural, organizational, economic and technical considerations are central to the Systems oriented designer.

These perspectives and the ability to have the project overview is a very good competence for a designer in a team, and also excellent proficiency for a project leader.

Systems-oriented designers can play a decisive role in managing complexity in future societal developments. Systems-oriented designers typically can work in design consultancies, in organizations, in municipalities with service design, on policy level and in the private sector.

Systems-oriented designers are trained in techniques such as Gigamapping.

The systems-oriented designer is also a skilled workshop facilitator and leader of co-design processes.

 

Praktisk organisering og arbeidsmåter

Project plans are created for each project individually according to the demands. Each project requires, in principle, its own project design. The course itself is a dynamic social system that must be adjusted and tweaked in real time.In all modules you will develop your Rich Design Space. The students will choose whether to work in pairs, in a larger group or individually.

Structure of the course:

We aim for two “tracks” so that you can choose the one you prefer;

  1. Systems-oriented design in ecologies of emotional experiences: A co-design project with youth, parents and workers in child welfare.
  2. Sustainable Tourism, looking at various regions of Europe.

This course contains modules:

Module 1 (6 ETCS): Map, visualize and use design to understand the complexity of the systems you will be working with. Includes a week of boundary discussions to define your design brief. The plan is to do a field trip at the start of the module and possibly go back for back-testing later.

Module 2 (10 ETCS) Design your service/intervention.

Module 3 (8 ETCS) Back checking and design your implementation process.

Teachers: Andreas Wettre, Audun Formo, Abel Crawford, Birger Sevaldsson, Jonathan Romm, Corbain Rymond.

Pensum
  • Designing Complexity : The Methodology and Practice of Systems Oriented Design (2022)
  • Author(s): Birger Sevaldson
VurderingsformGrupperingKarakterskalaKommentar
VurderingsmappeGruppeBestått / ikke beståttAt the end of the course the students shall deliver the following and this is what makes up the assessement:

Final delivery:
- Report (45% of evaluation)
- Gigamap (25% of the evaluation)
- Oral/visual presentation (20% of the evaluation)
- Process board (Miro) (10% of the evaluation)

These elements will include the work from all three modules.
All project material is to be digitally submitted to an online assignment system.
Vurderinger:
Vurderingsform:Vurderingsmappe
Gruppering:Gruppe
Karakterskala:Bestått / ikke bestått
Kommentar:At the end of the course the students shall deliver the following and this is what makes up the assessement:

Final delivery:
- Report (45% of evaluation)
- Gigamap (25% of the evaluation)
- Oral/visual presentation (20% of the evaluation)
- Process board (Miro) (10% of the evaluation)

These elements will include the work from all three modules.
All project material is to be digitally submitted to an online assignment system.
AktivitetKommentar
OppmøteThere will be milestone presentations at the end of each module to ensure and evaluate progress. Students are expected to attend all lectures, tutorials and presentations.
Forventet arbeidsinnsats:
Aktivitet:Oppmøte
Kommentar:There will be milestone presentations at the end of each module to ensure and evaluate progress. Students are expected to attend all lectures, tutorials and presentations.

Start semester

70 510 Service Design 1: Service design practice

Full course name in English: 
Service Design 1: Service design practice
Studiepoeng: 
24
Emnekode: 
70 510
Studienivå: 
Syklus 2
Undervisningssemester: 
2023 Høst
Eksamenssemester: 
2023 Høst
Undervisningsspråk: 
Engelsk
År: 
2023
Maksimum antall studenter: 
24
Emneansvarlig
Simon Clatworthy
Forkunnskapskrav

Passed foundation level (BA-level) courses at AHO or equivalent, 180 ECTS.

Recommended previous knowledge:

  • Service design concepts, tools and methods
  • User-centred design methodologies
  • Qualitative research and analysis
  • Visualisation for dissemination
  • Ideation techniques
  • Prototyping
  • Concept communication

 

Om emnet

This semester allows Masters level students to further their knowledge of the key competences of service design within projects together with professional partners and in real service design settings. It aims to reflect on the methodologies related to service design in a real context, where projects are intended to be desirable and viable.

Students will hone their skills and practical knowledge of approaches and methods in service design, focusing on the design for front stage experiences whilst engaging with the complexity and challenges of back stage delivery.

Through the course students will work with one or a series of professional partners (private company and/or a public organization), where they will work as professional Service Design consultants. The students will be encouraged to challenge the assumptions of the professional partners in relationship to their (and customers) presumed needs as well as developing critical skills to reframe the design question.

The course’s orientation is essentially practical, it builds on the idea that the best way to develop skills is by means of projects and practical experiences, and by exposing the students to different experiences and feedback from multiple observers, multi-disciplinary actors and project partners.

Other teachers: Alberto Soriano

Læringsutbytte

KNOWLEDGE

  • Understand and appropriate Service Design methodologies relating to User-Centered Design for the development of service design projects.
  • Develop a reflective mindset about Service Design, its approach, process, deliverables, possibilities, limitations and implications.

SKILLS

  • Refine the skills of observation, analysis, and creativity that lead to the formulation of relevant and valuable solutions for the user(s) as well as viable and feasible for the service provider.
  • Develop the skills to understand how businesses and/or public organizations think and are structured, together with reflections on service designs role in working within these structures.
  • Visualize, communicate and prototype, both the current experience (what is) and the projected improved one (what could be).
  • Develop skills to evaluate the proposed solutions and business projects, according to the differential potential in the eyes of the user(s) and service provider.
  • Be able to plan and facilitate workshops for project teams.
  • Develop collaborative skills to work with other designers, users, and different stakeholders that enable a proactive and professional role in teams and in collaboration with project partners.

GENERAL COMPETENCE

  • Be able to describe the difference between products and services and what it means to design for service.
  • Gain methodical insight by actively participating in a service design process.
  • Promote professional experience in a real organization, strengthening the ability to work in teams with an emphasis on results. 
  • Understand how service design can influence a company's strategy and value creation.
  • Experience of working with back stage service delivery and understanding the implications of designing in this space toward front end service experience.
Praktisk organisering og arbeidsmåter

Work with one or several real-life service design projects developed with a partner (a private company or public organization), where the students will work as professional Service Design consultants.

The main teaching will be based on tutoring sessions at the studio, innovation workshops, structured presentations and discussions within the course participants. 

The course also integrates lectures, studio work (groups and individual), and project(s) in collaboration with external partners where the students will form and work as design consultancies. 

Being a practice-driven course, the student’s progression through projects will be presented by means of:

  • Group and individual mid-term deliverables and presentations 
  • Visualizations and communication of insights, findings and designed responses
  • Workshops
  • Evidencing material

Details regarding the calendar, main events, deliverables, and evaluation criteria will be described and detailed in the briefing for each project at the beginning of each section. 

Teachers: Simon Clatworthy, Ted Matthews, Mari Suoheimo, Paola Trapani

Pensum

Click here for reading list in Leganto.

This is service design doing: Applying service design thinking in the real world’ by Stickdorn, M., Hormess, M. E., Lawrence, A., & Schneider, J.

This is Service Design Methods: A Companion to this is Service Design Doing. by Stickdorn, M., Hormess, M. E., Lawrence, A., & Schneider, J.

An Introduction to Service Design: Designing the Invisible. Laura Penin.

VurderingsformGrupperingKarakterskalaKommentar
VurderingsmappeIndividuellBestått / ikke beståttThe course will consist of one or several design projects with group and individual deliverables that will receive qualitative assessment to identify strengths and weaknesses.

The students will be assessed on the quality of submitted major design projects and presentations throughout the course. The student must submit all assignments in the course to receive final assessment.

The student’s progression throughout the course will be assessed by means of:

• Evidencing material
• Group and individual mid-term deliverables
• Presentations
• Project reports

If a student does not submit these deliverables for whatever reason (medical absences etc), or if the delivery is too weak, he or she can deliver an improved project later in the semester, but must deliver before the final project commences (unless they have obtained an extension from administration).

The project will have a final presentation, that will be assessed in pass or fail by an external sensor and the course leader.

The details for each project regarding deliverables and evaluation criteria will be described in the brief for each project at the beginning of each module.

Note:
Whilst group work will be assessed as a whole as to the quality of their deliverables, individuals will be assessed in their contribution to this whole. Students who fail to contribute or show limited contribution or engagement will not pass this course. Therefore, assessment of group dynamics and collaboration will be ongoing throughout the course.
Vurderinger:
Vurderingsform:Vurderingsmappe
Gruppering:Individuell
Karakterskala:Bestått / ikke bestått
Kommentar:The course will consist of one or several design projects with group and individual deliverables that will receive qualitative assessment to identify strengths and weaknesses.

The students will be assessed on the quality of submitted major design projects and presentations throughout the course. The student must submit all assignments in the course to receive final assessment.

The student’s progression throughout the course will be assessed by means of:

• Evidencing material
• Group and individual mid-term deliverables
• Presentations
• Project reports

If a student does not submit these deliverables for whatever reason (medical absences etc), or if the delivery is too weak, he or she can deliver an improved project later in the semester, but must deliver before the final project commences (unless they have obtained an extension from administration).

The project will have a final presentation, that will be assessed in pass or fail by an external sensor and the course leader.

The details for each project regarding deliverables and evaluation criteria will be described in the brief for each project at the beginning of each module.

Note:
Whilst group work will be assessed as a whole as to the quality of their deliverables, individuals will be assessed in their contribution to this whole. Students who fail to contribute or show limited contribution or engagement will not pass this course. Therefore, assessment of group dynamics and collaboration will be ongoing throughout the course.
AktivitetKommentar
OppmøteThis is an intensive course and it demands consistent and hard work from the participants. Although the projects are often developed in groups, individual deliverables will also be required during the projects.

Students are expected to attend at least 90% of the main course events described in the detailed calendar for each project, in order to be able to pass the course. The course leader will take attendance 15 minutes after the beginning of each session. She/he will inform the students if they are close to failing the course, due to lack of attendance.
Forventet arbeidsinnsats:
Aktivitet:Oppmøte
Kommentar:This is an intensive course and it demands consistent and hard work from the participants. Although the projects are often developed in groups, individual deliverables will also be required during the projects.

Students are expected to attend at least 90% of the main course events described in the detailed calendar for each project, in order to be able to pass the course. The course leader will take attendance 15 minutes after the beginning of each session. She/he will inform the students if they are close to failing the course, due to lack of attendance.

Start semester

70 505 Design studio

Studiepoeng: 
24
Full course name in English: 
Design Studio
Emnekode: 
70 505
Studienivå: 
Syklus 2
Undervisningssemester: 
2023 Høst
Eksamenssemester: 
2023 Høst
Undervisningsspråk: 
Engelsk
År: 
2023
Maksimum antall studenter: 
30
Forkunnskapskrav

Passed foundation level (BA-level) courses at AHO or equivalent, 180 ECTS.

A third semester Master course (only available for students in their final year). Open for all design fields, but students are required to follow up and go in depth within their previous chosen specialisation/field in which they can document advanced design skills through a portfolio and application.

You must apply with  a portfolio 2nd May: https://nettskjema.no/a/330736

Please specify which track you prefer. 

 

Recommended prerequisite knowledge

This course builds on the design skills and methods learnt across the previous Foundation and Master courses. In “Design Studio” students and teachers integrate and push these skills and mindsets to create rich projects with a high degree of professionally. For students who want to take part in “Design Studio” a strong sense of curiosity, experimental outlooks and independence are therefore required. “Design Studio” allows students to tailor their own personal development as a designer in preparation for their diploma.

Om emnet

“Design Studio” is an advanced Master course where the students will develop projects across themes and partners curated by the Institute of Design. These can be connected to research projects, external partners or emerging problematics within the field of design. The ambition for this course is to develop stand-out projects where students go in depth into the issues they chose to work with, and create high level outcomes. The core values of the course are exploration and professionalism – meaning that the course encourages the development of reflection, criticality and new knowledge about emerging fields, but also has the ambition of developing high quality deliveries and communication.

In this course students will have a large degree of freedom and responsibility as to how their projects are developed. ‘Design studio’ is a place for students to integrate the knowledge they have gained throughout their education and work towards exploration, professionalism and specialisation. A central part of the studio course is to develop project-experience and knowledge about how different forms of larger design projects can be structured and executed.

Students work individually or in small groups. Each project will be followed throughout the semester by a supervisor and typically, a partner. Partners and supervisors depend on the specialisations and/or themes that the projects take up. Each track supervisor will be responsible for the students that choose to follow his or her track. The track may consist of one long project or several projects.

The main teaching structure is mentoring on project level and the ongoing evaluation of progress. There is a common structure for milestones and core-deliverables throughout the course (development of project descriptions and plans, documentation and deliverables, and main presentations). Co-learning is central across the projects, and students will be involved in developing research, lectures and course-materials for the whole group.

Projects will come out of curated themes and partners developed by the Institute of design or from research topics across the institute’s research projects. Projects can both be done as specialisations towards specific fields or in inter-disciplinary groups, where students from industrial design, service design and interaction-design work together.

Tracks for Fall 2023:

1. EDITORIAL 

Track responsible: Mosse Sjaastad

Max amount of students: 12

Field: Interaction design

Prerequisites: Students will need to have had the course ‘Screens, or provide a portfolio, showcasing sufficient experience in designing for screen based experiences.

In this track, we will take a broad view of 'editorial', and engagement with content and information.

Through 3 modules, students will through hands-on and explorative approaches, look into :

- learning- and reading experiences

- storytelling

- news and public information

 

2.DESIGNPRO

Track responsible: Kathinka Bene Hystad

Max amount of students: 12 

Field: Industrial design

Prerequisites: Students need to have at least one out of two semesters on master level focusing in industrial design or provide a portfolio showcasing an equivalent experience. 

The course focuses on a professional execution of the subject, where the student is expected to take an active role in their own projects. The course is organized as a design studio where regular meetings, mutual contributions, workshops, evaluation and feedback between course participants provide deeper learning. The course is built around four themes.

• Sustainability week across the industrial design courses for increased competence and insight.

• Main project in a complex context where the students have to utilize their interdisciplinary design expertise towards industrial design.

• Seminar in inclusive design for empathetic, innovative and sustainable product development.

• A shorter project with an international partner focusing on sustainability and branding.

 

 

Læringsutbytte

KNOWLEDGE

  • The core knowledge outcome of the course is to integrate and mature the processes and methods learnt across the Master of Design.
  • Further, students are expected to develop domain-specific knowledge across their projects.
  • Knowledge about how advanced design projects can be structured and organised.

SKILLS

  • Develop and mature individual skillsets as designers.
  • In “Design Studio” students develop and expand core project-handling skills. Including scoping, research, project-description, time-management and communication.

GENERAL COMPETENCE 
Across “Design Studio” the goal is to develop the maturity of the students’ design competence and skills. This is done by both focusing on exploration and professionality on an advanced project-level.

Praktisk organisering og arbeidsmåter

The main activities of the course will be project- and specialisation-specific. Across the course there will be a focus on learning project planning, developing and scoping. The course is run in a studio setting, and co-learning across the projects, with some shared lectures and presentations etc, are important. The students will be required to make and present one topic specific “lecture” to the whole “design Studio:”

Pensum

Reading list will be available in Leganto.

VurderingsformGrupperingKarakterskalaKommentar
ProsjektoppgaveIndividuellBestått / ikke beståttStudents accepted to the different Design Studio tracks must define their own learning outcome together with the track responsible, after deciding their focus area. This will be the basis for their final evaluation. The assessment method is to be decided by the track responsible in dialog with the student.

Students need to present and submit all projects, documentations and presentations in order to be assessed for the course. Students also need to schedule their own mentoring sessions.
Vurderinger:
Vurderingsform:Prosjektoppgave
Gruppering:Individuell
Karakterskala:Bestått / ikke bestått
Kommentar:Students accepted to the different Design Studio tracks must define their own learning outcome together with the track responsible, after deciding their focus area. This will be the basis for their final evaluation. The assessment method is to be decided by the track responsible in dialog with the student.

Students need to present and submit all projects, documentations and presentations in order to be assessed for the course. Students also need to schedule their own mentoring sessions.
AktivitetKommentar
Oppmøte
Workshops
Gjennomgang
Forventet arbeidsinnsats:
Aktivitet:Oppmøte
Kommentar:
Aktivitet:Workshops
Kommentar:
Aktivitet:Gjennomgang
Kommentar:

Start semester

70 509 Strategic Design

Studiepoeng: 
24
Full course name in English: 
Strategic Design
Emnekode: 
70 509
Studienivå: 
Syklus 2
Undervisningssemester: 
2023 Høst
Eksamenssemester: 
2023 Høst
Undervisningsspråk: 
Engelsk
År: 
2023
Maksimum antall studenter: 
24
Emneansvarlig
Einar Sneve Martinussen
Forkunnskapskrav

Passed foundation level (BA-level) courses at AHO or equivalent, 180 ECTS.

A third semester Master course (only available for students in their final year). The course has interaction- and service-design as its starting-point, but is open for all design fields. Students are required to document advanced design skills in their chosen specialisation/field through a portfolio.

You upload the portfolio + motivation letter here before -  2nd May: https://nettskjema.no/a/330741

Recommended prerequisite knowledge

The course builds on the design skills and methods learnt across the previous Foundation and Master courses. In “Strategic design” students and teachers integrate and push these skills and mindsets to create rich, reflexive projects that address societal issues through design. For students who want to take part in this course a strong sense of curiosity, experimental outlooks, societal engagement and independence is therefore recommended.

Om emnet

This is an advanced Master course about ‘strategic design’ and will introduce the students to how design methods and tools can be used to address societal challenges. Through this course students will learn about theories and methods from the field of strategic design and get practical experience from applying these in design projects. The course is led by Einar Sneve Martinussen and Joakim Formo, associate professor at AHO, and developed together with Dan Hill,  former AHO-guest professor and former director of strategic design at Vinnova. Over the last decade, Dan Hill has been an important contributor to the field of strategic design and describes the approach as follows:

"Strategic Design takes the core principles of contemporary design practice – user research and ethnography, agile development, iterative prototyping, participation and co-design, stewardship, working across networks, scales and timeframes – and then it points this toolkit at ethical concerns, addressing systemic change within complex systems, and broader societal outcomes.” Dan Hill (2019)

This course has a focus on strategic design in the broader context of societal development. Students will get to apply and expand their skills and mindsets as designers through practical, exploratory projects that work with a range of societal issues - including sustainability, power and equity, policies for urban- and societal-development, innovation and knowledge, welfare and public services, and citizen participation. Alongside these practice-led projects the course will offer a rich selection of theoretical and inspirational lectures and seminars. A particular focus for this year’s course is exploring social infrastructures for everyday life, meaning the structures that enable social life and participation in society. We will re-examine the potential of traditional social infrastructures, such as libraries, schools, public pools, parks or markets. We will also explore and conceptualise a broader understanding of social infrastructure that could include nature, technologies, digital services, social relations and cultural experiences. Through the projects in the course students will use design methods to develop strategic interventions in the world today, as prototypes and pilot-projects, as well as designing future scenarios. The course brings together research-initiatives at AHO with ongoing projects in the public sector. Collaborators and cases for 2023 are not confirmed yet, but will likely include projects dealing with social sustainability and equity, neighborhoods and urban planning, innovation in the public sector, and designing for learning and knowledge-sharing in society.

The ‘Strategic design’ course is a part of D-Box, the National Centre for Transforming Public Services (a collaboration between AHO, BI and DOGA), and is organised together with the research-group Digital Urban Living. Key partners and collaborators from these research-groups and networks will be involved in the course. This course builds in part on the series of courses organised by Digital Urban Living over the past years, and will continue our exploration of many of the themes addressed in here, including digital society, sharing culture, inclusion, futures and trust

Læringsutbytte

KNOWLEDGE

Students will:

  • Get an overview of research, theory and projects within the field of strategic design.
  • Gain an understanding of issues faced by designers working with societal challenges.
  • Develop a critical framework for analysis, evaluation and discussion of design-work in the field of strategic design.

SKILLS

Students will:

  • Practice using their design skills as a part of a strategic design methodology, including prototyping, communication, scenario-building and iterative processes.
  • Design interventions with a focus on both engaging experiences and strategic outcome.
  • Expand their repertoire of practical and theoretical design skills.

GENERAL COMPETENCE

Students will:

  • Gain a stronger ability to explore and understand connections between design and society.
  • Develop the ability to conceptualise and communicate possibilities and solutions in the context of societal challenges.
  • Further develop design competencies such as curiosity, experimentation and critical reflection.
  • Get experience in collaborate across the class in a studio-setting

 

Praktisk organisering og arbeidsmåter

The course has two core components: a series of thematic seminars that run throughout the semester, and a series of design-projects. The seminars will be run by teachers and external guests and address a series of themes that will inform the development and discussion of the design-projects. The design-projects will be run with external partners and the students are expected to develop, and in part organise, these projects with a high degree of independence and professionality. The majority of the work will be done as pairs or groups, as well as through collaborations across the whole class. Projects typically have multiple presentations throughout in order to allow students to see and comment on each other’s work. Co-learning with and from other students is an important part of the course, and it is encouraged that the majority of the time is spent working in the class studio in order to develop an inspiring and encouraging design-environment.

Teachers: Einar Sneve Martinussen, Joakim Formo

VurderingsformGrupperingKarakterskalaKommentar
VurderingsmappeIndividuellBestått / ikke beståttThe students will be assessed on the quality of submitted the major design projects and presentations throughout the course. The student must submit all assignments in the course to receive final assessment.

Other aspects that is evaluated are active participation and collaboration in class, independence, professionality, co-learning and collaboration with others. The students are expected to attend in all collective activities (workshops, presentations, seminars) and participate in the studio throughout the projects.
Vurderinger:
Vurderingsform:Vurderingsmappe
Gruppering:Individuell
Karakterskala:Bestått / ikke bestått
Kommentar:The students will be assessed on the quality of submitted the major design projects and presentations throughout the course. The student must submit all assignments in the course to receive final assessment.

Other aspects that is evaluated are active participation and collaboration in class, independence, professionality, co-learning and collaboration with others. The students are expected to attend in all collective activities (workshops, presentations, seminars) and participate in the studio throughout the projects.

Start semester

70 303 Digital fabrication, technologies and processes

Studiepoeng: 
6
Full course name in English: 
Digital fabrication, technologies and processes
Emnekode: 
70 303
Studienivå: 
Syklus 2
Undervisningssemester: 
2023 Høst
Eksamenssemester: 
2023 Høst
Undervisningsspråk: 
Engelsk
År: 
2023
Maksimum antall studenter: 
15
Forkunnskapskrav

Passed foundation level (BA-level) courses at AHO or equivalent, 180 ECTS.

Prerequisite prior knowledge: Completed foundation education or equivalent. Basic prior knowledge in CAD tools such as Rhino, Solidworks, Alias, Blender etc. is required.

Recommended prior knowledge:

Prior knowledge of 3D printing and related technologies is recommended.

The course is open to design and architecture students.

Om emnet

Digital fabrication is in rapid development and increasingly involved in design and architectural processes, as a tool for prototyping and construction. The course is meant for design- and architectural students at master's level, that seek a deeper insight in the utilization of digital fabrication, in their studies and elsewhere.

This course will give insight into use, limitations and possibilities with some of these technologies through practical, hands- on exercises. The course is meant for both design and architecture students who want a practice based understanding of existing and emerging digital fabrication technologies. The course will enable the students to explore many of these technologies through small workshops and exercises.

SUPPLEMENTIVE INFORMATION

The course is a collaboration between the academic staff at the Institute of Design, the Institute of Architecture and staff at the workshops at AHO.

Teachers: Ricardo Simian, Geir Jarle Jensen

Læringsutbytte

KNOWLEDGE 

At the end of the course the students will

  • have knowledge about SLA, SLS, FDM, 3DP, lasercutting, knifecutting and 3D scanning.
  • have hands-on knowledge in how to run the different machines.
  • know how to evaluate the usefulness of the different processes.

SKILLS
With the completed studies the student will

  •  be better equipped in utilizing the latent potentials of the technology in the setting of product-/interaction- and architectural design.
  • possess the necessary knowledge involved in preparation and pre-processing of digital CAD files. 

GENERAL COMPETENCE 
The student should be able to explain the choice of methods for realizing the tangible object, and why.

Praktisk organisering og arbeidsmåter

As with other elective courses the course will consist of weekly learning activities, lectures, material exploration and use of available digital fabrication processes through exercises in the workshops. The course culminates with an exhibition demonstrating selected outcome of the course.

Teachers: Ricardo Simian, Geir Jarle Jensen

Pensum

Course literature will be available in Leganto.

Anderson, C. (2012). Makers: the new industrial revolution. Random House.

Hopkinson, N., Hague, R., & Dickens, P. (2006). Rapid Manufacturing: An Industrial Revolution for the Digital Age. John Wiley & Sons.

Thompson, R. (2007). Manufacturing processes for design professionals. Thames & Hudson.

 

VurderingsformGrupperingKarakterskalaKommentar
VurderingsmappeIndividuellBestått / ikke bestått Assignments will be given between ordinary course days. 5 of these are required to be submitted and is part of the assessment. There will also be a final oral examination.
Vurderinger:
Vurderingsform:Vurderingsmappe
Gruppering:Individuell
Karakterskala:Bestått / ikke bestått
Kommentar: Assignments will be given between ordinary course days. 5 of these are required to be submitted and is part of the assessment. There will also be a final oral examination.

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