Einar Sneve Martinussen

• Martinussen, Einar Sneve & Aspen, Jonny (2021). Retten til det digitale skiftet. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift (NNT). ISSN 0800-336X. 38(1–2), p. 58–72. Full text in Research Archive
• Morrison, Andrew; Bjørnstad, Nina; Martinussen, Einar Sneve; Johansen, Bjørn Vidar; Kerspern, Bastien & Dudani, Palak (2020). Lexicons, Literacies and Design Futures. Temes de Disseny. ISSN 2604-9155. 2020(36), p. 114–149. doi: 10.46467/TdD36.2020.114-149. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve; Knutsen, Jørn & Arnall, Timo Daniel (2014). Satellite Lamps. Kairos. 19(1). Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The city is changing in ways that can’t be seen. As urban life becomes intertwined with digital technologies, the invisible landscape of the networked city is taking shape—a terrain made up of radio waves, mobile devices, data streams and satellite signals. Satellite Lamps is a project about using design to investigate and reveal one of the fundamental constructs of the networked city—the Global Positioning System (GPS).

• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2013). Pockets and Cities: Interaction Design and Popular Imagination in the Networked City. Design and Culture. ISSN 1754-7075. 5(3), p. 289–312. doi: 10.2752/175470813X13705953612129. Full text in Research Archive
• Morrison, Andrew; Tronstad, Ragnhild & Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2013). Design notes on a lonely drone. Digital Creativity. ISSN 1462-6268. 24(1), p. 46–59. doi: 10.1080/14626268.2013.768534. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2012). Making material of the networked city. In Hensel, Michael U. (Eds.), Design innovation for the built environment : research by design and the renovation of practice. Routledge. ISSN 9780415596640. p. 235–249. Full text in Research Archive

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• Martinussen, Einar Sneve & Killi, Steinar (2021). Aisthesis - Læremiddel for KDA - Design og Arkitektur 1-3. Tell Forlag. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2015). Drone Shadow. MoMA Publications. ISBN 9780870709685. 232 p. Full text in Research Archive

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• Encinas, Enrique; Bull, Synne Tollerud; Dolejšová, Markéta & Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2026). F@ck AI or else… A roundtable discussion on music and art among cursed algorithms. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  AI keeps faking it until it makes it as infrastructure. Vibing effortlessly with wearing language as interface for doomstyle hype, timewarping efficiency, subscription-based fate and a long generative etc. So, let's talk about something else… The roundtable moves between creative practice and research, speculation and error, embodiment and idiocy. Beyond ritual denunciation or loving embrace, we open a conversation about the pleasures, traps, politics, and odd possibilities of working with these tools to learn (and act on) how they set the terms. As the slogans dry out: how to resist, how to misuse, how to play inside systems built to smooth everything into an average slop(py) shape. After the refusal, after the fatigue, after the sales pitch and the creative ditch, what else? Organized by AHO's CRAITR research group

• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2025). Varsler høy partyfaktor: Kunst, debatt og fest på bensinstasjon. [Journal]. iFinnmark. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve & Formo, Joakim (2025). Design for Kystutvikling 2025 - Møteplasser. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Seminar om design og Kystutvikling.

• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2025). Nedlagt bensinstasjon ble festivalbar. [Journal]. Ságat. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2025). Design for felleskap. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Foredrag om design, fellesskap og sosial infrastruktur for Kunsthall Dikemark sitt symposium om arkitektur og makt

• Martinussen, Einar Sneve & Guthu, Hallstein (2025). På farta - Bensinstasjon som arkitektur, kultur og møtested. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Foredrag/kunstnersamtale mellom designer og kunstner Einar Sneve Martinussen og arkitekt Hallstein Guthu om Martinussens prosjekte Heija Bar og om bensinstasjoner som hverdags-arkitektur, kultur og møtesteder. Samtalen var en del av prosjektet Heija Bar - et bestillingsverk for Barents Spektakel 2025. Heija Bar var en del av Barents Spektakels festivalutstilling og bestod av en bensinstasjon re-designet som flerkulturhus.

• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2025). Heija Bar. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Heija Bar – et eksperiment i sosial infrastruktur Heija Bar var et designprosjekt om sosial infrastruktur og radikal ombruk som stilte spørsmålet: Hva om alt kunne blitt en bar? Eller en kafé, en karaokesalong, et felles bakeri, en slarvekrok, et auditorium, en konsertscene eller en sløydsal? Våre sosiale møtesteder er i endring. Tidligere handlet utviklingen av såkalt sosial infrastruktur om å etablere institusjoner og formålsbygg – som svømmehaller, kulturhus og biblioteker. I dag ser vi at det sosiale livet i et lokalsamfunn i like stor grad handler om aktivitetene og begivenhetene vi møtes gjennom. Dette henger sammen med endrede vaner og forventninger, og ikke minst nye, digitale måter å informere, koordinere og samle folk på. På AHO har vi forsket på hvordan dette åpner for en ny type selvdrevet fleksibilitet i utviklingen av fremtidens sosiale infrastruktur. Hva skjer dersom vi forstår våre sosiale møtesteder som øyeblikk og begivenheter, snarere enn bare faste steder? Under Barents Spektakel 2025 gjennomførte festivalkunstner Einar Sneve Martinussen, sammen med Pikene på Broen og et stort team av bidragsytere, et eksperiment for å utforske fremtidens sosiale infrastruktur. Eksperimentet tok form som en utstillingen Heija Bar. Heija Bar tok over en nedlagt Shell bensinstasjon og klemte inn mest mulig trivelig sosialt samfunnsliv på fire dager. Einar Sneve Martinussen designet en helhetlig merkevare, og ombygging, inspirert av Shells designprofil – med logo, maskot, arbeidsklær, øl, kioskvarer, merch og plakat-tapet. Fra tidlig til sent ble det frokost, karaoke, slarving, konserter, læring, dans, fest og kveldsmat – og alt mulig imellom. Baren het «Heija», fordi det er det man sier til hverandre i Sør-Varanger når man møtes. Klart alt kan bli en bar – også en bensinstasjon. Fra fossilt drivstoff til sosialt drivstoff.

• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2024). Design, society and innovation. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2024). The role of digital tools in recognizing and enhancing urban social infrastructure - Keynote. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve & Formo, Joakim (2024). Coast as a Host - Design for Coastal Development. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve & Aspen, Jonny (2024). Researching digital commons as social infrastructure. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2024). Det nye nord? Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve & Sommerfelt, Sondre (2024). Hvordan planlegge for fremtiden uten å bygge? [Journal]. Plan - Tidsskrift for samfunnsplanlegging, regional- og byut. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2023). Strategisk bruk av design. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2023). Design og samfunnsinnovasjon. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2023). Designere som utvikler Sør-Varanger. [Internet]. Sør-Varanger Utvikling podcast. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2023). Design for Felleskapet - Oslo Urban Week. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve; Formo, Joakim & Hill, Dan (2023). A Garden of Ideas. In Pagh, Christian & Cook, Thomas (Ed.), Mission Neighbourhood - (Re)forming Communities. The Danish Architectural Press. ISSN 9788774070047. p. 144–154. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve & Formo, Joakim (2022). Garden of Ideas. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2022). Neighbourhood futures. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2022). Resources of hope - searching for possibilities in challenging times. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve & Winje, Vigleik (2021). Design for likestilling. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2021). Design for fellesskap. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve & Reaver, Kai (2021). Design for a Nordic Digital Shift. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2020). Reclaiming the Digital Shift. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2020). Strategisk design I byutvikling. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2020). มารู้จัก Interaction Design และทำไม Google Maps ถึงรับมือรถเมล์ไทยไม่ได้. [Internet]. The Urbanis. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2020). 'Digital Sjølråderett' - A Nordic model for designing the digital shift. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2020). Digital Urban Living. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2019). Questions for the Arctic Digital City - a Critique of Design, Digitalisation and 'Smart Cities'. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2019). Design for the Nordic Digital City - Research on technology, cities and daily life

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• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2019). Digital Sjølråderett - Design for a Nordic shift. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve & Matthews, Edward (2019). Future faceting – Exploring multifaceted urban futures through interaction and service-design. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2019). Digital Sjølråderett - Det digitale skiftet i Nord-Norge. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2019). Design for a Nordic digital shift - Closing keynote. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2018). Designbar: Design og etikk. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2018). Design in the Digital City. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2018). Den Digitale Byen - Muligheter, disipliner og kritikk. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2018). Redesign av altinn.no - Intervju med vinneren av IxDA/Visuelt prisen 2018. [Journal]. Visuelt 2018. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2018). Hvem skal forme det digitale Norge? Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2018). Den digitale byen. In Ese, Anders (Eds.), Fornebu Sør: Et miljø- og kvalitetsprogram. Selvaag Bolig. p. 74–75. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2017). From Nikola Tesla to Elon Musk - Designing the spectacle and mundanity of technology-visions. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve & Aspen, Jonny (2017). Historical Perspectives on Contemporary ‘Smart City’ Thinking. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2017). The Digital City – Designing for citizens and society - Evening seminar. Full text in Research Archive
• Aspen, Jonny; Hemmersam, Peter; Knutsen, Jørn & Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2017). Challenges of the ‘Urban Digital’: Addressing interdisciplinarity and power in the planning and design of the digital city. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This paper identifies and discusses a set of challenges relating to the design of digital services in policies and strategies for more liveable and sustainable cities. These challenges emerge in the meeting between the knowledge and practice fields of digital design, which deal with service and interaction design, and urbanism, which is concerned with the study, planning and design of cities. The purpose of this paper is to lay the ground for a more inclusive and cross-disciplinary perspective on the conceptualisation, planning and realisation of the ‘urban digital’. This relates to how design and urban planning professionals learn to take seriously the societal responsibility implied in the development of digital services and products for everyday urban living.

• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2017). The Nordic Digital City – Where UX meets urbanism. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2017). Low Key Urban Spaces in a High-Tech World / Hosting Session. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2017). DOGA podcast: Norske Byggeklosser. [Internet]. doga.no. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2017). Interaction design and the futures, presents and pasts of the networked city. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve; Aspen, Jonny & Hemmersam, Peter (2016). Digital City Life. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2016). Kulturhuset P2 - Museer og Apper. [Radio]. NRK P2 Kulturhuset. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2016). Digital design competencies for the future. In Troye, Rachel Karine Bergesen (Eds.), AHO works studies 2015-2016. Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo. ISSN 9788254703007. p. 134–135. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2016). Exhibition tour with contributors - Oslo Architecture Triennale / DOGA. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2016). Visible networks. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2015). Urban Imaginaries. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2015). SATELLITE LAMPS – VISUALISERING AV INFRASTRUKTUR I EN NETTVERKSBASERT BY. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Jørn; Arnall, Timo Daniel & Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2015). Skål media player. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve & Knutsen, Jørn (2015). Ugle. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2014). Usynlig teknologi frem i lyset. [Internet]. forskningsradet.no. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve; Arnall, Timo Daniel & Knutsen, Jørn (2014). Glowing Orbs Reveal GPS Strength Wherever You Take Them. [Internet]. Wired. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve; Knutsen, Jørn & Arnall, Timo Daniel (2014). Immaterials: Satellite Lamps. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve; Arnall, Timo Daniel & Knutsen, Jørn (2014). Immaterials: Light painting WiFi. A + U. Architecture and Urbanism. ISSN 0389-9160. 11(529), p. 62–64. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2013). MATERIALS, TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve & Knutsen, Jørn (2013). Adventures in GPS. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve; Arnall, Timo Daniel & Knutsen, Jørn (2013). Immaterials: Light painting WiFi. Significance. ISSN 1740-9705. 10(4). doi: 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2013.00683.x. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2013). Satellite lamps. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Jørn & Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2013). Internet of Things? Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Jørn & Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2013). Voktet av kjærlige maskiner. [Journal]. Dagbladet Magasinet. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2013). Setting the Context. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2012). Pockets and cities. Design and popular imagination in the networked city. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2012). 'Design, popular imagination and the networked city'. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve & Knutsen, Jørn (2012). Å formgi en digital framtid. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Jørn & Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2012). Provocations into Scholarly Formats. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2012). 'Investigating the networked city'. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve & Knutsen, Jørn (2012). Ugle - a networked owl. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve & Knutsen, Jørn (2012). Intervju om 'Tingenes internett' i VG Helg. [Journal]. VG. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve; Aspen, Jonny & Westvang, Even Eidsten (2012). Digitalt byliv. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve; Arnall, Timo Daniel & Knutsen, Jørn (2012). Immaterials: Light painting WiFi. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2012). Means of production. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve; Arnall, Timo Daniel & Knutsen, Jørn (2012). Daily Planet. [TV]. Discovery Channel Canada. Full text in Research Archive
• Morrison, Andrew; Arnall, Timo Daniel; Knutsen, Jørn; Martinussen, Einar Sneve & Nordby, Kjetil (2011). ‘Towards discursive design’. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2011). Immaterials: Light painting WiFi. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve; Arnall, Timo Daniel & Knutsen, Jørn G.S. (2011). Feature in ‘be.passive’ architecture magazine Belgium (print). [Journal]. be.passive. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve; Arnall, Timo Daniel & Knutsen, Jørn G.S. (2011). Feature in Courrier International. [Journal]. Courrier International. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2011). Interview on ‘lÓeil De Links’ Canal+. [TV]. ‘lÓeil De Links’ Canal+. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2011). Et digitalt byliv. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2011). Immaterials: Light painting WiFi. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2011). Intervju VG Helg. [Journal]. VG. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2011). Kreativt Forum. [Journal]. Kreativt Forum. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2011). Networked cities and popular-cultural imagination. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2011). Immaterials: Light painting WiFi. Full text in Research Archive
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve & Morrison, Andrew (2015). Pockets and cities : investegating and revealing the networked city through interaction design. Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo. ISSN 9788254702789. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This thesis is about investigating and revealing the networked city through interaction design. The ‘networked city’ describes the interweaving of digital, networked technologies with the urban landscape and everyday city life. The networked city has become a prominent topic in recent years across academia and industry, and is making its mark on daily life. Networked city life is enacted through wireless networks, satellite navigation, and ever-more sophisticated mobile devices, while the discourses of emerging technologies in cites are dominated by technology-led visions of the ‘smart city’ (Greenfield, 2013). In this thesis I address these issues through practice-led interaction design research that seeks to explore, visualise, and communicate the technological and cultural invisibilities of the networked city. This project comes out of a collaborative project- and design-based practice. It is a ‘research-by-design’ project that draws together an interdisciplinary frame spanning interaction design, urbanism, and theories of everyday life and culture. In this project I pursue an explorative, reflexive design research practice that seeks to visualise and communicate emerging technologies in cities. The thesis addresses two connected research questions: first, how can the often invisible, technical structures of networked city life be investigated and made visible through interaction design? And how might practices of explorative and communicative interaction design contribute to new perspectives on the emergent networked city? These questions are further part of the research challenge of developing an analytical position on the networked city and interaction design situated in everyday life and culture. The design, development, and dissemination of a film series titled Immaterialsplays a central part in the research practice of this thesis. The Immaterials series was produced by myself and a small team of interaction design researchers. In this series of online films we investigate and visualise three common, yet invisible, urban technologies: RFID, WiFi, and GPS. With the Immaterials films, tools and approaches from interaction design were used for doing technical, material investigations of technology, and further turning these investigations into communicative and discursive artefacts for engaging with the popular cultural understanding of technologies. The films and artefacts produced in this thesis therefore have a dual analytical and methodological function; they are a means for revealing the networked city, and catalysts for a wider cultural discussion of the role of emerging technologies in urban life. Through the practice of this thesis I illustrate and argue for an expanded view of interaction design that is not limited to issues of technology and use, but that explores how technologies are understood culturally. Interaction design is here approached in a discursive and cultural frame, where the tools and methods of the discipline are put to use for navigating, translating, and engaging between and across technology, materials, and media. We have termed this a ‘discursive design’ approach that uses the languages and techniques of design to explore and communicate complex technological issues, and to promote discourse, critique, and invention. In this project, analysis is threaded through a reflective design research practice. Alongside the body of the design work, I have identified and developed a set of themes for analysing the relationships between interaction design and the networked city. These are informed by the practice-led interaction design research, alongside interdisciplinary analysis that draws together concepts from interaction design and networked urbanism with theories of everyday life and culture studies. Together, the thematics work towards developing an analytical position on the networked city and interaction design. This analytical positioning situates these fields in relation to both everyday life and to the cultural materials and expressions that accompany new technologies into daily practices. This is further connected to how design can contribute to these cultural materials through discursive, mediated artefacts such as online films. With this thesis, I make contributions on three main levels. I develop analytical themes and discussions that investigate the relationships between the networked city, interaction design, and daily urban life. Through the practice-led research, I also develop examples of how interaction design can be used for contributing to, and stirring, popular cultural discourses of technology. Finally, through this project I have created and communicated a body of design work that in itself contributes to the imagery of networked city life.

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