Research groups at the faculty
- ADvanced hEalth intelligence and brain-insPired Technologies (ADEPT)
- Applied Artificial Intelligence
- Building technology, building materials and building physics (B3)
- Creative practice – (trans)forming space, place and the environment
- Art – Practice – Research
- Autonomous Systems and Networks (ASN)
- Digital & Sustainable Construction (DiSCo)
- Design for Health
- Design Literacy
- Education and Society
- Fashion.Textiles.Design: products and practices
- Mathematical Modelling
- Mechanics, Mechatronics and Material Technology
- Product design and cultural sustainability
- Smart Water Engineering Group (SWING)
- Structural Engineering Research Group (SERG)
- Sustainable Built Environment (SustainaBuilt)
- Systemic Design and Sustainability
- Technology and Innovation in Organisation and Society (TIOS)
- Transport, Infrastructure, and Urban development (TransFrUrban)
- Universal Design of ICT (UD-ICT)
PhD programmes
Research projects with their own websites
- ACT UP! Active Citizenship through Theatre for Urban Politics
- The AI Journalism Resource Center
- AI-Mind
- Brain activation during gait and balance
- ConStruct
- CONTRA – Conflicts in transformations
- Co-occurrent pain and psychological distress: From adolescence to adulthood
- Hybrid Deep Learning Cellular Automata Reservoir (DeepCA)
- EQUALS-EU
- FeLT- Futures of Living Technologies
- Light-Weight High Performance Concrete for Modular Floating Structures (LITEFLOATCON)
- MaxBiogas project
- Measuring the Therapeutic Mechanisms and Effects of Art (BraArt)
- Nordic Liveable Cities: Imaginaries, Practices and Prospects
- REGAL
- SOCRATES
- SuSOcean
- The technology and knowledge transfer based on Norway-Czech cooperation
- TRANSFORM
- TRUST: Transforming Relations in Urban Sustainability Transitions
- UR-data
- InfraGuard
- LG R&D Heat Pump
- European Consortium for Advanced Heat Pump Research
Priority areas with their own web page
Research facilities
Laboratories
Overview over laboratories and research facilities at Faculty of Technology, Art and Design with its own web page in English:
Scientific publications and journals
Scientific publications in Norwegian Research Information Repository (NVA)
- Scientific publications at Faculty of Technology, Art and Design in 2025 (nva.sikt.no)
- Scientific publications at Faculty of Technology, Art and Design in 2024 (nva.sikt.no)
- Scientific publications at Faculty of Technology, Art and Design in 2023 (nva.sikt.no)
- Scientific publications at Faculty of Technology, Art and Design in 2022 (nva.sikt.no)
- Scientific publications at Faculty of Technology, Art and Design in 2021 (nva.sikt.no)
The publications are registered in Norwegian Research Information Repository (NVA), the Current Research Information System in Norway.
Scientific journals
R&DI strategy at TKD
Job openings
Vacancies at the Faculty
R&D management
Vice-Dean for R&D
R&D Committee
The R&D Committee at the Faculty of Technology, Art and Design
The committee advises the faculty management and has been delegated power of decision in individual cases.
Doctoral committee
The doctoral committee at the Faculty of Technology, Art and Design is tasked with developing the faculty’s researcher education.
R&D administration
The R&D-section at the Faculty
The R&D-section assists and advices researchers, research groups and the faculty management on research funding, research ethics and personal data protection, publications, dissemination etc.
The R&D-section has administrative responsibility for the Faculty's PhD-programme in Engineering Science.
Contact persons in the R&D-section
Head of Section
- Research ethics
- Contact for the Department of Product Design (PD)
Senior Adviser
- Innovation
- DOFI
- R&D Commitee
Senior Adviser
- Research grant support
- Responsible Research and innovation (RRI)
- External networks and partnership
- Innovation
- Intellectual property rights (IPR)
- Contact for Department of Computer Science (IT)
Senior Adviser
- Privacy, personal data protection contact for R&D
- Data management plans
- Research ethics
- Secretary for the local R&D committee
- Contact for Department of Art, Design and Drama (EST)
Senior Adviser
- Equals EU
- Cristin (super user)
Adviser
- Application support and project follow-up
- Project registration; the research database and P360
Senior Adviser
- Application support for external funding for collaborative projects
- Regional, national and international projects
- Contact with business and the public sector for partnerships
- Project support; start-up, implementation and closure
- Contracts and agreements
PhD Senior Adviser
PhD Senior Adviser
Dissemination of research
The Faculty's Communications Advisers are happy to help with dissemination of research.
Events
An OsloMet-led research team has won an Innovative Technology Recognition Award demonstrating how multiple propane air-to-water heat pumps operating in cascade can deliver continuous, energy-efficient heating in Nordic winters.
A routine brain test already available in many hospitals, combined with artificial intelligence, can detect early signs of Alzheimer’s disease — without needles or expensive brain scans.
A dance performance that makes turbulence visible can show us that it is present in all aspects of life – and is useful, open to influence and something we can live with.
Researchers have been granted access to private letters, photographs and sketches that reveal the dramatic story of the artist and the Occupation Frieze in Oslo City Hall.
AI could make assisted reproductive technology significantly more effective, but professionals are often sceptical. There is a need to build greater trust among them, says researcher.
A new nutrition calculator can make it easier for food producers to label their products with the Norwegian Keyhole mark. As a result, more food items can be Keyhole-labelled.
