New Blood and Fresh Ideas

Welcome to an evening where we get to know new and fearless talent that are about to enter our industries with their fresh perspectives and bold ideas. It our privilege to welcome recently graduated master students Oda, Henriette and Ingrid and last but not least Industrial design student Raoul Koreman tonight. They will share the results of their (master) projects with us, hopefully injecting inspiration and ideas into our jaded professional minds.

Oda Sortland
Reaching a radically innovative service concept

Disruptive innovation is a hot topic in the design communities. I believe service designers’ ability to create radically innovative concepts could be increasingly important in the years to come. In my master project, I was seeking to create a potential disruptive service concept in the insurance sector, which many believe stands before tremendous changes. I will talk about the processes which lead me to the speculative disruptive service concept, my use of a future scenario in this context, and describe the final concept: User Generated Insurance.

Henriette Sagvolden Marki & Ingrid Fløgstad
Reframing sexual health

Today health is a personal responsibility, however there is a disconnection in people’s desire to stay healthy and their actual behavior. How can a public health service become relevant and influence people’s everyday health and well-being?

Looking into sexual health one of the biggest issues we found was the shame and stigma related to the topic. Feeling ashamed about our sexual health can stop many from addressing sexual health issues, especially at a preventive stage. While public sexual health services today focus mostly on negative consequences of sex, there is a need to acknowledge and promote the positive aspects, and reframe sexual health offerings to become relevant to young adults.

Using service design methods we have created a design proposal for the gap between the health sector and peoples everyday health, exploring the potential of a public health service to enable, empower and engage users to stay sexually healthy. Our end result is service guidelines as well as a service concept 6 om dagen,- which moves out of the doctors office and promotes sexual health as a positive resource in people’s life, in the same way public health promotes nutrition and physical activity.

Raoul Koreman
The Future of Music?

As designers, we are not only comfortable with basing our ideas and exploration on the knowledge of others, in fact we cannot work without it. In this respect, as much as designers can learn from others, others can learn from designers. What if cooperation and co-creation were the norm in other creative fields?

This project is an exploration of the affiliation found between the makers and listeners of the music industry. The final result, Prelude, unites a passionate community of fans and artists. By allowing artists to share their work in progress and fans to listen and interact with them, artists can get the feedback they need to be great, while fans can hear even more of the music they love.