Background and experience
Andrea is an Assistant Professor of Service Design at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO). She teaches and supervises students in service design at both undergraduate and graduate levels, and has previously worked as an external supervisor, appeal examiner, and diploma examiner at AHO.
Andrea has a background in industrial design and 15 years of professional experience leading and delivering design projects for public and private sector organisations. At K8 Industridesign, Designit, and Netcompany, she has worked with user research, concept development, testing, project management, and facilitation, as well as developing service design methodologies and building professional service design teams. She has been teaching at AHO since 2021.
Research
Andrea’s research explores the intersection of creativity, design education, and mindfulness, with a particular focus on how design students develop the capacity to tolerate uncertainty and resist the urge to reach conclusions too early. Through practice-based research, she investigates how mindfulness can foster a freer, more exploratory, and reflective creative design process.