The Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) is a specialized university and a leading international architecture and design school that provides education within architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism and design. AHOs fields of knowledge focus on design in all scales, objects, buildings, urban areas and landscaping. AHO is organized into four institutes, and has approx. 700 students and 145 employees. The institute of Design at AHO is the oldest education of it kind in Norway and is today a leading international site for education and research in a variety of design domains. The Institute of Design has a broad approach to design that emphasises the relevance and importance of design within contemporary society. We aim to educate designers with a solid knowledge of their specific professional field while emphasising a broadly integrated, cross-disciplinary approach to design processes using design thinking and design making. The Institute of Design reflects the rapidly emerging fields of design that respond to societal challenges, new technologies and increased complexity. It promotes design that actively shapes our society, industry, organizations and daily life. Moving beyond its traditional role, design is established as a tool with which to address a wide range of issues from strategy to social change. While historically the Institute focused on Industrial Design, today its scope also includes Interaction Design, Service Design and Systems Oriented Design. The institute has a staff of 38, including PhD fellows and visiting tutors.

The Oslo School of Architecture and Design calIs for applications for a four year 50% position as Assistant professor in Interaction Design.

Interaction design is one of the main domains of teaching, research and collaboration with industry at the Institute of Design (IDE) at AHO. We currently run a 5 year programme leading to a Master's in Design. Interaction design is a part of the curriculum across this 5 year programme. Through the Doctoral School at AHO and the Centre for Design Research at IDE we also offer PhD level research education and support; this is often to connected to large funded research projects that engage creatively and critically with the cultural in interaction design where technology and communication may be included.

We are currently looking for a highly motivated person to fill a position in interaction design. This person who will be responsible for developing and teaching courses in interaction design on Master and foundation level (Bachelor equivalent), as well as supervising Diploma projects. The applicant will need to meet high international standards at all levels with a clear foundation in interaction design suited to a higher education school specialising in design. We are interested in a practiced designer who is also an accomplished educator with experience, a strong portfolio and a supported by engaged pedagogy up to Master's level.

This Assistant Professor in Interaction design will be responsible for developing and teaching curriculum that covers interaction design, products and technology. The applicant should have extensive experience in practice-led and studio-based teaching in design school, and is expected to cover a broad range of topics. This person will be responsible for managing Master courses, contributing to foundation courses and Diploma supervision, and teach across the students' design processes - including teaching technical skills, prototyping with technology, mentoring of complex projects, and embedded computing programming. The should applicant's own practice should also cover both technical and design-related themes. We do not seek applicants who have their primary work and qualification in computing and technology from Human Computer Interaction or technology studies.

Responsibilities

• Developing and teaching a studio-based Maste
  
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  Arbeidsgiver Navn: Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo
  
  Arbeidsgiver adresse: Maridalsveien 29 0175 OSLO
  
  Job kort beskrivelse: University and higher education teachers
  
  Land: Norge
  
  Region: Oslo
  
  Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge
  
  Lønn valuta: NOK
  
  Lønn periode: Pr. år
  
  
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