Bakgrunn og erfaring
Joakim Formo is associate professor at at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO). Much of his work has been in research and innovation in private tech industry focusing on scenarios, narratives, mental models, language, strategic use of design and other systemic instruments for sensemaking.
The future oriented explorative design-driven R&D projects Joakim has led in the tech sector have spanned a wide range of topics and technology areas. For over a decade he directed the strategic design work at Ericsson, exploring social, cognitive and ethical issues within the larger scope of developing technology such as 5G, remote operations, automation, surveillance, big data, cloud infrastructure, AI multi agent networks, digital twins, augmented and virtual mixed reality, among other things. This work has included ethnographic studies, facilitating creative idea-development, production of speculative artefacts, prototypes, films and exhibitions, as well as developing av implementing new processes, methods and ways of working.
Undervisning
At AHO he teach the specialisation course in interaction- and service design at bachelor level (aka GK6), as well as the master course 'Digital Commons: Strategic Design for Society' at 5th year, as well as a postgraduate education course in systems oriented innovation for public sector. He also supervise master thesis projects, as well as develops courses.
Forskning
Joakim is co-leading the research group Design for Society and Technology at the Institute of design. In general his focus is on design as an approach to research and invention at the intersection between human societies and digital technologies, infrastructures and platforms, as a way to enrich sociotechnical imagination and enable transformation capability related to current and future digitalisation.