About
Biography
I am a professor in industrial design with a main interest in game dynamics and systemic design. I run courses in Systemic Design, Design for Experience, and Game Dynamics on our master Design in Complexity. In the course Design for Experience our students work with psychological mechanisms in design and nudging as well as game dynamics in order to design for behavior, engagement and emergence, which involves for service and product users to become engaged because of the design, and to develop their own experiences.
Systemic design is the combining of systems theory and the design practice. The development of systemic design has emerged as a result of designers lacking methods to meet the complexity of social and environmental contexts in which they operate.
I am active in the networks:
• Excellent Academic Environment: Cybernetics, and part of the Centre for the study of digitization of public services and citizenship, CEDIC
• Welfare Access Through Technology (WATT)
• Relating Systems Design RSD
• Systemic Design Association, Norway
• on Cybernetics
• International Toy Research Association ,ITRA
In addition to educational engagement, I have been a design consultant since 1992, engaged within the areas of design for sustainability, hospital and laboratory instruments, positioning and steering equipment for ships, service design, leisure products, and HCI, some which have received design awards and been patented. In 2005 I became a cofounder of 2025design which business areas lies within environmental management, sustainable product design and strategy development. This professional practice has since 2004 been a part time engagement. I was trained as an industrial designer at Design Academy Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
I have recently contributed to the establishing of the master program Design in Complexity, the international course Practice Oriented Systemic Design with L'École de design Nantes Atlantique, Frane, and the specialization Game Dynamics in Design.
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Industrial and product design Methodology of project and industrial design Nursing science Information and communication technology
Subject areas
Game theory Design methologoly Sustainable design Industrial design Game Dynamics Systems-oriented design
Research groups
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Kaplan Sarisaltik, Ayse
;
Gulden, Tore
; Boks, Casper
(2025).
A visual scoping review of plastic consumption in everyday life.
Cleaner and Responsible Consumption.
Vol. 16.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clrc.2024.100248
Blaasvær, Linda;
Gulden, Tore
(2023).
A DISCUSSION TO LEARN ABOUT SUSTAINABLE WELFARE SYSTEMS FUNCTIONING.
Buck, Lyndon; Grierson, Hillary; Bohemia, Erik (Ed.).
DS 123: Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE 2023).
The Design Society.
https://doi.org/10.35199/EPDE.2023.112
Gulden, Tore
; Blaasvær, Linda
(2021).
DESIGN AND DOUBLE BIND COMMUNICATION IN PUBLIC SERVICES—THE MODEL OF LOGICAL PARADOXES.
Grierson, Hilary; von Bohemia, Erik; Buck, Lyndon (Ed.).
DS 110: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE 2021), VIA Design, VIA University in Herning, Denmark. 9th -10th September 2021. p. 09.11.2021-10.09.2021.
The Design Society.
https://doi.org/10.35199/EPDE.2021.75
Karibayeva, Nadiya;
Gulden, Tore
(2020).
HOW CAN COMMUNICATION LITERACY REINFORCE HOLISTIC DESIGN PRACTICES?.
Buck, Lyndon; von Bohemia, Erik; Grierson, Hilary (Ed.).
DS 104: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE 2020).
The Design Society.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.35199/EPDE.2020
Gulden, Tore
; Steier, Frederick
(2020).
HCI International 2020 – Late Breaking Posters 22nd International Conference, HCII 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 19–24, 2020, Proceedings, Part I.
Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS).
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60700-5
Gulden, Tore
;
Wigum, Kristin Støren
(2019).
Keeping up with complexity.
von Bohemia, Erik; Kovacevic, Ahmed; Buck, Lyndon; Brisco, Ross; Evans, Dorothy; Grierson, Hilary (Ed.).
DS 95: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE 2019), University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. 12th -13th September 2019.
The Design Society.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.35199/epde2019.
Gulden, Tore
;
Berg, Arild
;
Sandnes, Frode Eika
(2019).
Identification of emergent systems of play in green urban spaces in geocaching and geoplay by geographic information (GI) technologies.
Meyer, Jochen (Ed.).
PERVASIVEHEALTH - EAI 2019
Other Years
PERVASIVEHEALTH - EAI 2018
PERVASIVEHEALTH - EAI 2019
Ethics and Malpractice Statement
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PERVASIVEHEALTH - EAI
13th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare.
European Alliance for Innovation.
https://doi.org/10.4108/eai.20-5-2019.2283731
Berg, Arild
;
Gulden, Tore
;
Yazidi, Anis
;
Mirtaheri, Peyman
(2019).
Health promoting experiences in urban green space: A case study of a co-design toolkit based on feedbacks from fNIRS, IoT and game probes.
Meyer, Jochen (Ed.).
PERVASIVEHEALTH - EAI 2019
Other Years
PERVASIVEHEALTH - EAI 2018
PERVASIVEHEALTH - EAI 2019
Ethics and Malpractice Statement
Back to CORE
PERVASIVEHEALTH - EAI
13th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare.
European Alliance for Innovation.
https://doi.org/10.4108/eai.20-5-2019.2283732
Gulden, Tore
(2018).
Engagement by lamination of autopoietic concentric interaction systems in games: A study of football and Pokemon GO.
Human Technology.
Vol. 14.
https://doi.org/10.17011/ht/urn.201805242753
Berg, Arild ; Bohemia, Erik; Buck, Lyndon; Gulden, Tore ; Kovacevic, Ahmed; Pavel, Nenad (2017). Proceedings of E&PDE 2017 - International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education. Building Community: Design Education for a Sustainable Future. ISBN: 978-1-904670-84-1. 1000 p. The Design Society.
