Systems Oriented Design

Sigrun Lurås

Sigrun Lurås is a Ph.D. Fellow in Systems Oriented Design at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. She holds a Master in Industrial Design Engineering from NTNU in 2005. She also has two years of Engineering Cybernetics studies at undergraduate level and upgrading courses in Human Factors and Psychology. Prior to starting on her Ph.D. Sigrun worked as an interaction designer and human factors specialist. Sigrun is particularly interested in design for safety critical systems, and her Ph.D. project addresses how Systems Oriented Design can be used to design for enhanced situation awareness on the bridge of offshore support vessels.

Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel

Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel [MSc EmTech AA Dipl RIBA II] (born 1979, İstanbul, Turkey) is an architect, interior architect, principle researcher and currently a board member in OCEAN Research and Design Association (2008) and research fellow at AHO (2008-2012). Currently she pursues her PhD entitled; Multiple Performance Integration Model for a Generative Design Process Based on Wood and Clay Based Systems.

Rafael Laurenti

Laurenti is a PhD student at the Division of Industrial Ecology, KTH, Sweden. Rafael holds a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Production Engineering and a master's degree in New Product Development from University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. His main current research interests are Industrial Ecology, Systems Thinking, System Dynamics and Sustainability.

Project description:

Sustainability driven Systems-oriented Design is a collaborative project between professor Birger Sevaldson Professor Björn Frostell from the Division of Industrial Ecology KTH, and Rafael Laurenti. The aim of the project is to develop a conceptual framework which integrates sustainability aspects into the umbrella of systems-oriented design. The purpose of the framework is to identify and deal with sustainability challenges, such as, ecological and social negative externalities, rebound effects, length of life-span, societal inequalities, involved in the life cycle of the product/system service being designed.

Helge Tor Kristiansen is PhD candidate financed by a maritime project at HiALS who is based at AHO for doing the PhD.

He is related to the UBC research project.

Anita Woll

Anita Woll is a Ph.D candidate in Design of Information system at the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. She holds a Master of Sciences in Informatics and a Master of Public Health, and has a Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) in Computer Science. Anita has received a fellowship for four years that include one year of duty work as an ICT advisor in relation to Audio and Video systems (multimedia) at Rambøll. The main scope of her Ph. D project is to develop new Smart House Technology to support elderly people living at a Residential Care+ to extend the time the elderly could be self-reliant in their private homes. Her project includes participatory design, information visualization by use of GIGA mapping, human computer interaction within the context of private and public spaces, prototyping and usability testing.