Browsing PhD by Title
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Refashioning Service Design : Designing for popular cultural service experience
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis;109, Doctoral thesis, 2021-04)Services are becoming ever more present in our everyday lives and cultural lifestyles, enabling new practices and shaping new values. In the entanglement of people, experiences, interactions, products, technology and media ... -
Reframing wood construction : innovation in architecture through activating material properties with the use of digital technologies
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis;105, Doctoral thesis, 2020)Reframing Wood Construction. Innovation in architecture through activating material properties with the use of digital technologies. This thesis focuses on the relationships between material-centred design, digital ... -
Refuturing studies: rehumanizing futures through/by design
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis;121, Doctoral thesis, 2023)With the onset of climate and ecological breakdown, organized human life faces a precarious present and an even bleaker future. The sixth IPCC report (2021-2022) states that the window for drastic climate action is closing ... -
Room for children's participation?: reflections on communicative practice in an educational context
(CON-TEXT;Thesis; 31, Doctoral thesis, 2007)The thesis title asks if there is room for children to participate in matters concerning the built environment. The concept "room" in the title, has three different meanings; the physical room referring to the public place ... -
Service design in the later phases : exploring user insights, handovers, and service design roadmapping in the transition from service concept to implemented service
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis; 101, Doctoral thesis, 2020)Human-centricity and user involvement have become increasingly emphasized in Norwegian legislation related to service development in the health and public sectors. At the same time, service design has emerged as a relevant ... -
Simulation and design
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis;78, Doctoral thesis; Peer reviewed, 2016)In this thesis, I investigate the use of simulation, game engines and real-time interaction in user-centred design for the maritime sector. In this sector, users are involved in complex safety critical operations carried ... -
Sites of crisis : histories of the satellite town
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis;107, Doctoral thesis, 2021)This thesis is a history of the relationship between the satellite town and the welfare state analysed through the prism of crisis. Extending the architectural historian Manfredo Tafuri’s concept of history as a project ... -
Social concerns in contemporary architecture : three European practices and their works
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis; 53, Doctoral thesis, 2012)For some time now, architectural writers and curators have pointed to a new social engagement in contemporary architecture. What does this renewed social interest consists of, and how does it materialize? The thesis looks ... -
Soiling Service Design: Situating professional designing among plural practices
(CON-TEXT;123, Doctoral thesis, 2024)Since the 1990s, professional service design knowledge has travelled globally, detached from its larger Western history and contexts. The proliferation of service design knowledge shapes how individual designers enact their ... -
Space as curatorial practice: the exhibition as a spatial construct : Ny kunst i tusen år (1970), Vår verden av ting - objekter (1970) and Norsk middelalderkunst (1972) at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis;82, Doctoral thesis; Peer reviewed, 2016-08-09)Space as curatorial practice: the exhibition as a spatial construct asserts the fundamentally spatial nature of the object of research – the exhibition – and the thesis seeks to make a contribution to Exhibition Studies, ... -
Speculating on design, life styles and forms : studies in the contexts of climate change sustainability
(Doctoral thesis, 2023)This thesis explores a speculative, nondualist and relational design approach to engaging with ongoing climate change and sustainable design transformations. Posthumanism, amongst other theories, has attempted to use ... -
Standpunktvurdering i grunnskolefaget Kunst og håndverk
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis; 52, Doctoral thesis, 2011) -
Systemic design in complex contexts : an enquiry through designing a ship's bridge
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis;17, Doctoral thesis; Peer reviewed, 2016)In recent years designers seem to increasingly be engaged in projects for complex, high-risk domains. Yet, little research has been conducted that addresses how designers experience such projects, what kinds of challenges ... -
Tegneskolen i Christiania : en nasjonal arkitekturutdannelse tar form
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis;92, Doctoral thesis, 2017)Tegneskolen i Christiania ble opprettet i 1818 og inngår i dag i Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo. Ved Tegneskolens grunnleggelse var det ønske om at skolen skulle bli et norsk kunstakademi etter europeisk modell, en norsk skole for ... -
Tempo-materialities : encounters with time along Arctic island coasts
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis;118, Doctoral thesis, 2022)Time is at the heart of this doctoral research which engages with the Arctic island coasts of Jan Mayen, Bjørnøya and Hopen. As a means to work with different dimensions and scales of time along these coasts, I have chosen ... -
The Architecture of the Urban Project
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis; 80, Doctoral thesis; Peer reviewed, 2016-10-04)“The Architecture of the Urban Project” is about large-scale architecture in Norway. Projects that potentially fall into this category are those that blur the distinction between the city and the building, more specifically ... -
The Construction of an exhibition within architecture culture deconstructivist architecture, The Museum of Modern Art, 1988
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis;79, Doctoral thesis; Peer reviewed, 2016)The 1988 Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, curated by Philip Johnson and Mark Wigley, was a minor exhibition that forced architecture to change directions. The tenweek exhibition ... -
The magazine and the city : architecture, urban life and the illustrated press in nineteenth-century Christiania
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis;94, Doctoral thesis, 2018)Focusing on two illustrated periodicals, Skilling-Magazin (1835-1891) and Illustreret Nyhedsblad (1851-1866), the dissertation explores the relationships between the city and the magazine from two perspectives, investigating ... -
Timber Tales : A Qualitative Study of Timber Materiality in Housing Projects
(CON-TEXT. PhD thesis;112, Doctoral thesis, 2021)This qualitative study addresses how architects and residents employ, experience and value wooden building materials in housing projects, arguing that buildings that are loved last longer and thus contribute to both ... -
Towards a generative design system based on evolutionary computing
(CON-TEXT / Thesis;59, Doctoral thesis; Peer reviewed, 2014-06-02)This thesis proposes elements and principles for a digital generative design system, which involves Evolutionary Computing. The functioning of the system is based on an analogy between a design process and a process of ...