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About the positionThe Institute of Urbanism and Landscape has an open position forPhD research proposals that explore the materialities and controversies of urban space design in small Arctic cities. The PhD candidate will be part of the Arctic research group. Professor Peter Hemmersam will be the supervisor. Well-designed living environments and urban spaces are important to marginal communities. The physical urban and social environment, including meeting places (‘attraktivt bumiljø’), is increasingly important to people’s choice of where to live. Good urban space design also encourages physical activity and improves public health. According to the WHO, health is not only the absence of disease but also physical, mental, and social wellbeing. Well-designed and attractive places can benef...

About the positionThe AHO-based research network Circular Architecture and Material Flows(CA.) calls for applications for a four-year PhD-fellowship position, including 25% teaching, starting September 2025. The position is based at the Institute of Architecture and requires full-time attendance, including participation in the research education program. CA.is a research network for advanced studies of the reuse, transformation and preservation of architecture, and addresses the challenges of the accelerating climate crises and the problems of excessive consumption and waste within the building industry. By combining competences from the fields of heritage, environmental philosophy, material technology and architectural design, and by engaging a number of AHOs distinguished scholars and pr...

Om stillingenThe Oslo Centre for Critical ArchitecturalStudies (OCCAS) ved Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo inviterer søkere til en treårlig stipendiatstilling innenfor norsk arkitekturhistorie på 1800-tallet. Denne perioden var lenge oversett av norske arkitekturhistorikere, vurdert som reaksjonær, unasjonal og uoriginal. Men 1800-tallsarkitektene responderte på et samfunn i rask endring.Deresbygningstyper, materialbrukog romprogrammer må forstås i lys avgalopperende moderniseringsprosesser. Forståelsen av disse prosessene er imidlertid mangelfull, ogkunnskapen om viktige aktører og konteksteri periodener ufullstendig. Stipendiatstillingen er ment å belyse noen slike prosesser og plassere den norske historismen inn i en viderekulturell og intellektuell kontekst. Av spesiell interesse...

About the positionAHO has an open call fora candidate to take part in research on the materialization of physical movement for interaction design. Our bodies are increasingly understood through sensors, and these interpretations serve as the foundation for interactive designs. This research proposes to advance digital movement – movement shaped by digital technology - as a design material in order to extend critical discourse, practice and pedagogy in interaction design.The research at AHO’s Institute of Design deals with the current pervasive digital technological shift in society as it affects our educational programs as well as the fields and industries we educate for. Across industrial, interaction and service design, the institute provides a transdisciplinary research milieu that work...