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Adeline Hvidsten

- Associate Professor
School of Arts, Design and Media

Background

Adeline Hvidsten is associate professor at Kristiania and the head of the Bachelor in Service Design at the School of Arts, Design and Media. Hvidsten has a PhD in innovation and entrepreneurship from BI Norwegian Business School, where she researched inter-organizational digital interaction between hospitals and municipalities in public health services. The thesis adressed the inherent incompleteness of services and the role of co-design, ICT, power and politics.

Hvidsten's research mainly focuses on design, innovation and future studies.

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Scientific Publications
Skjulstad, Synne & Hvidsten, Adeline (2025). Backstage Matters: Designer’s Invisible Media Work in Independent Fashion Practice. Fashion Theory. ISSN 1362-704X. p 1-21. doi:
10.1080/1362704X.2024.2442183

Youdelevich, Sarit & Hvidsten, Adeline (2024). Monopoly Reimagined: Cultivating Gaming Literacy for Tackling Real-World Complexities. Proceedings of the European Conference on Games Based Learning (ECGBL). ISSN 2049-0992. doi:
10.34190/ecgbl.18.1.2857

Hvidsten, Adeline, Rai, Ranvir Singh & By, Rune Todnem (2023). Design(erly) Thinking: Supporting Organizational Change and Leadership. Journal of Change Management. ISSN 1469-7017. 23(1) p 1-11. doi:
10.1080/14697017.2023.2172762

Hvidsten, Adeline & Kirah, Anna (2023). Relics and Resources: Representing complexity in service and systemic design. RSD5 Symposium Proceedings. ISSN 2371-8404.
Hvidsten, Adeline & Almqvist, Frida (2023). Zooming in and Out of Complex Systems: Exploring Frames in Incremental Participatory Design Projects. I Pfannstiel, Mario A. (red.) Human-Centered Service Design for Healthcare Transformation: Development, Innovation, Change. Springer. ISBN 9783031201684. doi:
10.1007/978-3-031-20168-4_13

Skjulstad, Synne & Hvidsten, Adeline (2023). Intentionally left behind: Independent designers “free spaces” at the boundaries of art and fashion. Proceedings of DRS. ISSN 2398-3132. doi:
10.21606/nordes.2023.77

Alme, Vårin & Hvidsten, Adeline (2022). To Learn or not to Learn: On the Importance of Mode Switching in Educational Wargames. Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies. ISSN 2596-3856. doi:
10.31374/sjms.123

Callegari, Beniamino, Hvidsten, Adeline & Rai, Ranvir Singh (2022). Exploring Business Model Innovation in the Norwegian Grocery Market. Proceedings of the European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, ECIE. ISSN 2049-1050. 17(1) doi:
10.34190/ecie.17.1.706

Alme, Vårin & Hvidsten, Adeline (2022). To Learn or not to Learn: On the Importance of Mode Switching in Educational Wargames. Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies. ISSN 2596-3856. 5(1) doi:
10.31374/sjms.123

Hvidsten, Adeline (2020). The hidden ‘co-designers’ of service: exploring policy instruments in e-messaging. Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings. ISSN 1650-3686. p 443-457.
Hvidsten, Adeline & Rai, Ranvir Singh (2020). Slipping Into Service? Exploring Imbrications and Collaborative Boundary Work in an Ambulatory Co-Design Setting. Proceedings of the European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, ECIE. ISSN 2049-1050. p 312-319.
Hvidsten, Adeline (2019). The role of incompleteness in codesigning collaborative service delivery: A case study of electronic coordination in Norwegian health care. Handelshøyskolen BI. ISBN 9788282471527.
Hvidsten, Adeline & Hungnes, Tonje (2018). A controversy of interpretation: emergent agencies in repurposing Aker Local Hospital. I Hoholm, Thomas, Rocca, Antonella La & Aanestad, Margunn (red.) Controversies in Healthcare Innovation. Service, Technology and Organization. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137557797. p 185-213. doi:
10.1057/978-1-137-55780-3_8

Rocca, Antonella La, Hvidsten, Adeline & Hoholm, Thomas (2016). Making innovations work locally: the role of creativity. I Škerlavaj, Miha, Černe, Matej, Dysvik, Anders & Carlsen, Arne (red.) Capitalizing on creativity at work: Fostering the implementation of creative ideas in organizations. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781783476497. p 258-269.
Dissemination
Lervik, Jon Erland, Oorschot, Kim van, Hvidsten, Adeline & Hoholm, Thomas (2025). SYSTEMS LITERACY: Tackling grand challenges by expanding the repertoire of leadership development in the public sector.
Hvidsten, Adeline & Ersdal, Hanne Rentsch (2024). A talk between the professor and the practitioner.
Barba, Evan & Hvidsten, Adeline (2024). Playable Systems: Game co-design for systemic insight.
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Barba, Evan, Hvidsten, Adeline, Vink, Josina, Kirah, Anna & Rouse, Rebecca (2024). Playable Systems: Game Co-Design for systemic intervention. I Gray, C.M., Chehade, E. Ciliotta, Hekkert, P., Forlano, L., Ciuccarelli, P. & Lloyd, P. (red.) DRS2024: Boston. Design Research Society. ISBN 9781912294626. doi:
10.21606/drs.2024.1455

Skjulstad, Synne & Hvidsten, Adeline (2024). Leaving the Body Behind: Decentering Norwegian Fashion.
Hvidsten, Adeline, Hoholm, Thomas & Mørk, Bjørn Erik (2024). Playing the reform: Reconfiguring accountability and the emergence of ´boundary games´.
Hvidsten, Adeline, Hoholm, Thomas & Mørk, Bjørn Erik (2023). Playing against the reform: Digitalizing boundary work.
Hvidsten, Adeline & Alme, Vårin (2023). Hva må til for å lære gjennom spill i undervisningen? Forskersonen.no.
Hvidsten, Adeline, Rai, Ranvir Singh, Helland, Stephanie & Henriksen, Theodor Andreas Aas (2021). Introduksjon til tjenestedesign. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISBN 9788202708269.
Hvidsten, Adeline, Hoholm, Thomas & Mørk, Bjørn Erik (2021). We cannot tell them": Timing patient pathways and the unexpected consequences for collaboration processes.
Hvidsten, Adeline (2020). Co-designing public health care services: e-messaging from 1997-2017.
Hvidsten, Adeline & Hoholm, Thomas (2019). Mandated coordination and collaboration. The role and unintended effects of boundary objects.
Hungnes, Tonje & Hvidsten, Adeline (2016). More than sum of its parts? Controversies arising in development of a health arena.
Hvidsten, Adeline, Hoholm, Thomas & Rocca, Antonella La (2015). Projects in networks: Implementing communication technology across multiple health care organizations.
Hvidsten, Adeline, Rocca, Antonella La & Hoholm, Thomas (2014). The role of artefacts in the coordination of home care services.
Rocca, Antonella La, Hoholm, Thomas & Hvidsten, Adeline (2014). Intra- and inter-organizational forces in health care innovation: Literature review and research agenda.
2019 - now
Høyskolelektor
Høyskolen Kristiania
2014 - 2019
Doktorgradsstipendiat
Handelshøyskolen BI
2016 - 2017
Medlem sakkyndig komite for evaluering av nytt bachelorprogram
Høyskolen Kristiania
2013 - 2014
Forskningsassistent
Handelshøyskolen BI
2014 - 2019
Doktorgrad (PhD) i Innovasjon og Entreprenørskap
Handelshøyskolen BI
2017
Visiting Student Researcher with Fulbright Scholarship
University of California Berkeley
2011 - 2014
Master of Science (MSc) i Innovasjon og Entreprenørskap
Handelshøyskolen BI
2012
Student Exchange Programme
Queensland University of Technology
2008 - 2011
Bachelor i Kunst og Design
Høyskolen i Oslo
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