Big Design

Designing the extraordinary in the ordinary

Co-designing the future in the present

The Big Design initiative

A small group of students at NTNU's School of Design have launched the Big Design initiative. This initiative is a reaction to a prevailing sense of powerlessness among governments and large corporations in the face of uncertainty. Uncertainty does not need to translate into powerlessness: in fact designers experience the opposite. We need to inject design methods, and more importantly the designer mindset, into the arenas of Big Design.

The learning life project

It has long rung true that IT projects are 20% tech and 80% organizational development. We are exploring ways of promoting employee driven innovation and Lade Hjemmetjeneste are leading the way. In collaboration with NTNU, HiOA and NAV.

Participation in learning

Sembly is a webased software solutions that offers teachers the insight they need to never lose the audience, to capture people's curiosity, to catch and clear confusion, and collect valuable feedback. Trondheim starts experimentering with Sembly as a way to enhance learning from leadership development.

Leadership by design

A force of more than 600 leaders are set to be trained in design methods. Part of the training involves reconceiving leadership as a service.

Measures of openness

High ambitions are not much use unless they are matched by tangible results. Open Trondheim has to prove itself as a means of attaining goals: Trondheim wants to be a knowledgeable, sustainable, inclusive and attractive place to live and visit.

Big Design and citizen driven innovation

Inspired by pragmatist philosophy, action research and design methods we explore people centric change methods. We see the future of public services as a more collaborative effort to frame pressing issues and mobilize the wider community in citizen-driven change initiatives.

The art of opening up

What we do is predicated on how we, as individuals and communities, come to our senses. Art based methods can help us re-discover the extraordinary in the ordinary. Trondheim has applied art based methods for the purpose of innovating.

Using big data to deliver better health care

How we plan and utilise available resources within our organisation will highly impact the quality of the services we provide. By making use of big data and analysing trends, we are getting new insights on how we use our time to provide better healthcare.

Experimenting with physical spaces

Trondheim has developed a method for experimenting with new physical spaces, in the old space.

The Reframing Method

Both a method and a design philosophy; dealing with the simple fact that anything you design today will live in the future. The future must first be described in a "value-free" way, creating a platform on which designers can enact meaningful change.

Design framed by the Nordic Model

The Nordic model has proved to be a competitive advantage in that it affords us greater agility. The model hinges on a structuring of society whereby government, industry and unions engage in a mutual sharing of power and resources predicated on a reasonable level of social equality.

Making sense of the right to participate

Participation is the cornerstone of any democracy. For people to engage they need a platform from which to make a difference.

Theory U

Linking social change, leadership development and design methods.

Featured: Sensemaker

Psychologists in Wales have developed tools which allows whole populations of citizens or employees to form part of a human sensor network. Trondheim is exploring the tools as part of its Open Trondheim project.

recipes for big sharing

Trondheim collects a huge amount of data about its citizens. We want our citizens to be able to share information they see as important to developing their community. Trondheim and Sintef secures funding through the Norwegian Research Council Program Forkommune to explore new ways of encouraging open innovation!

Global design stories from the public sector

The culmination of several years of research on how to lead like a designer, this book recounts not only how the results were often truly innovative, but also how the process challenged and affected employees and managers. Even more importantly, these stories form a movement toward a new governance paradigm: human centered governance.

Questions about this site? Contact Kristian Mjøen, Rådmannens fagstab, Trondheim kommune

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