Industrial Design 1: Technoform
Steinar Killi, Geir Øxseth and Carsten Loly
Technoform focuses on how industrially
made products and artifacts have become
what they are today, what they might be
like in the future, and factors that drive
these changes. Reflecting on these concerns,
we examine a set terms that have emerged
and inspire us, namely evolution, revolution,
paradigm and paradigm shift.
Industrial Design 2: ProtoHype
Geir Øxseth
ProtoHype develops the students’ ability to
facilitate a design innovation process in high-
tech research environments. The students
work together in design studios and develop
new product concepts for real clients from
the Oslo MedTech network. In the second
part the “design offices” produce concepts
relevant to each client’s particular market.
Interaction Design 1:
Tangible Interactions
Mosse Sjaastad, Birgitta Cappelen,
Nicholas Stevens and Einar Sneve
Martinussen
Tangible Interactions launches students into
the world of Interaction Design by focusing on
the core skills and materials used in design-
ing for physical and digital interactions. The
course focuses on how humans engage with
physical everyday objects, and how the func-
tionality, meaning and usage of these objects
can be extended through digital augmentation.
Interaction Design 2: Screens
Mosse Sjaastad, Marius Watz and
Timo Arnall
In a world where visual interfaces are in-
creasingly prevalent, designers are faced with
fascinating, complex and highly relevant
challenges. Screens explores how these inter-
faces can be effectively integrated into net-
works and spaces, the information they con-
tain and the messages they impart, and how
we as users engage and interact with them.
Systems-Oriented Design (with special-
ization in Industrial Design, Interaction
Design and Service Design)
Birger Sevaldson, Mosse Sjaastad,
Håkan Edeholt and Ted Matthews
Systems-Oriented Design provides train-
ing in collaboration with partners from
industry and organisations, for tomorrow’s
profession where the ability to tackle com-
plex challenges and produce intelligent and
synergistic solutions is key. Deeper under-
standing of relationships, systems, and the
consequences of design processes, helps
provide innovative solutions and open up
new design fields.
AHO WORKS STUDIES 2012-2013
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