Ola Möller

Experience

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  The Photobook about Sweden

  Apr 2007 - Nov 2010

  Editor-in-chief & Exhibition Producer

  Founder of a Citizen Photojournalism Project which resulted in a book and exhibitions where 44 young photographer depicted Sweden. Translated to 7 languages. Exhibited in Stockholm, St Petersburg, Moscow, Tbilisi, Buenos Aires & Montevideo. Awarded Best Practice 2009 by EU.

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  The Students' Association at Hyper Island

  Oct 2007 - Mar 2009

  Founder and Chair

  Started and connected the student association to SSCO (general body of students associations in Stockholm), something that allowed all future students to be eligible for student housing.

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  This Must Be The Place

  Nov 2008 - Mar 2010

  Co-author

  Book about Contemporary Art with 43 swedish artists. The book release & exhibition was held at an anonymous adress in Stockholm but attracting 900 people. Press coverage in many of the big Swedish newspapers.

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  Various

  Jan 2009 - now

  Workshop Facilitator & Education Designer

  I've been carrying out a wide range of workshop during the last years. Ranging from 1 hour sessions to 2-3 days. From sessions with 5 to 1100 participants.I've been facilitating Idea Week at Hyper Island two years, along with a number of two day MethodKit sessions on personal development. I've also been facilitating Technology Mashup workshops together with a specially designed cards with technologies, sensors & data sources to show people the possibility of technology and how the bits and pieces could be combined in infinite ways. Through my work with MethodKit, workshops are often conducted in new fields exploring how new types of tools can be used. Show less

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  Georgia Stories

  Jan 2010 - Jan 2010

  Co-Producer

  Citizen journalism (crowdsourcing) project where 35 young Georgian photographers tell stories about their everyday lifes with photo and text. A selection was exhibited in Tbilisi, November 2010 at the Rustavi Theatre. Also exhibited at Stallet in Stockholm, Sweden. (Made partly with support from Swedish Institute)We created the project as a spin-off of Photo book about Sweden but applying it to a new country.

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  Hyper Island

  Jan 2010 - May 2011

  Was part of the annual admission group for 4 years at Hyper Island. Carried out around 350 in-depth 20-30 minute interviews with prospective students along with facilitating group tasks. Worked part-time during 2010. (Approximately 3 months full-time in total).- Created documentation of how the different courses of the long term programs were designed.- Interviewed CEOs & business leaders around the world about the future of the industry.- Illustrated the Hyper Island Methodology.

  • Part of Admissions group

    May 2008 - May 2011

  • Assistant (To The Director Of Development)

    Jan 2010 - Dec 2010
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  Project of How

  Jun 2010 - Jun 2013

  Co-founder

  We spent a year interviewing and discussing creative process with makers and creators. The project resulted in a Method bank for creative workshop methods that was launched spring 2012. 2015 the design system was used by Hyper Island to create the Hyper Island Toolbox.The project was funded by City of Stockholm (Innovativ Kultur) and Swedish Ministry of Culture (Kulturbryggan). Funding also came from the EU.

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  Idea Society

  Jun 2010 - Aug 2012

  Founder

  The mission was to "democratize creativity". Idea Society later changed name to MethodKit as the product became most of what the company worked with.

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  Andaman Visions

  Mar 2011 - Apr 2011

  Project Manager

  - Workshop with entrepreneurs & environmental experts on Andaman Islands.- In-depth research interviews with creatives in Delhi around Indian school systems & how it connects to creativity.http://andamanvisions.com/

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  Swedish Institute

  Mar 2011 - Mar 2011

  Admissions Specialist

  Responsible for carrying out the admissions interviews for Swedish Institute's Leadership Program YLVP 2011 (Young Leaders Visitors Program). Was doing interviews with 50 prospects from the MENA region during the Arabic Spring.

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  UnMonastery

  Jan 2012 - Dec 2018

  Co-initiator

  UnMonastery was a part of the bid Matera (Italy) made to become European Capital of Culture (which later was the case)."The unMonastery is a social clinic for the future... aimed at addressing the interlinked needs of empty space, unemployment and depleting social services by embedding committed, skilled individuals within communities that could benefit from their presence""The unMonastery: a commune for the internet age" - Dazed Digitalhttps://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/22717/1/the-unmonastery-a-commune-for-the-internet-agehttps://www.thenation.com/article/archive/can-monasteries-be-model-reclaiming-tech-culture-good/ Show less

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  MethodKit

  Sept 2012 - now

  Founder

  We summarize the common language people use to talk about their discipline into a tool for dialog (deck of cards). Each card with an important perspective, an icon and an explanatory oneliner. The decks of cards giving broad understanding over fields and are tools to discuss, ideate and structure projects with.Extensive research is made in each field. The process takes around 3-15 months and normally involves a handful of people, but varies a lot, in some of our cases more than 50 experts are involved. 50 areas have been mapped so far. Show less

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  Hyper Island

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2013

  Industry Leader

  Was responsible for a 6-week course on the Digital Data Strategist program (90 weeks) on Portfolio making. The idea was built upon that you can't present yourself in a good way, if you don't know who you are and where you are heading. The course included a wide selection of different professionals coming in lecturing. Everything from from Art of Questioning sessions (psychologist, foreign correspondent, recruiter, social antropologist) to session on identity (artist working with character creation and choreographer having workshop how body expressions creates identity). Designers came in in the last part of the workshop to talk about how your design live up to the experience you want to create. Show less

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  Planetary Scale Design

  Jan 2014 - Jan 2015

  Co-initiator

  Planetary Scale_ was a series of workshops 2015-16, facilitated by Sarah Gold (IF), Carina Namih, Ben Vickers (Serpentine Galleries) and I. These workshops was hosted around the world to explore, anticipate and debate what planetary scale systems mean for our future. Planetary Scale_ a part of Transmediale 2015.More at https://planetaryscaledesign.org/

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  Hyper Island

  Jan 2014 - Jan 2015

  Industry assessor

  Working with assessments of students based on their self-assessment.

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  University of Gothenburg

  Sept 2015 - Nov 2015

  Adjunct Lecturer

  HDK is a part of the University of Gothenburg, one of the major Universities in Europe and Sweden's first Faculty of Fine Applied and Performing Arts.I lectured at and co-designed a part of the Design in Society course (7.5 ECTS) that's a part of the Master's in Business & Design.

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  Höj Rösten Politikerskola

  Apr 2017 - May 2019

  Part of Admissions group

  Was part of the annual admission group for 3 years. Carried out 20-30 minute interviews, facilitated group tasks and created material that was an aid in individual assessment. Was also a part of composing a selection of participants that was presented to the board. I designed assessment material and developed methodology to visually be able to compare applicants in the application process.

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  The Good Talents

  Aug 2020 - Mar 2022

  Board member 20/21 + 21/22. Was focused on the development and packaging of programs & methodology along with the formalization of the organizational memory. More about TGT here: https://www.thegoodtalents.com/ I worked with a series of projects around standardization of educational programs, education design and creation of an organizational memory.

  • Board Member

    Mar 2020 - Mar 2022

  • Learning Designer

    Aug 2020 - Jan 2021
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  Folkets Husby

  Oct 2020 - Jun 2023

  Designer (part-time)

  Worked mostly with learning design, project management and graphic design around local initiatives that the organization conducted.Was involved in the groundwork to initiate a local democracy council (Husbyrådet). My work involved a mix of process- and information design. I've been making material that will aid facilitation and logistics around the council, along with working with the E-democracy services (using e-ID to conduct community-led votes around different issues).

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  Aeo advisory team

  Aug 2023 - now

  Advisor / Founder

  Working as a part of the AEO advisory team.What we do:- FACILITATE. We help you find direction and align your group.- MAKE TOOLS. We create tools and ways to help you work better.- CREATE SOLUTIONS. We prototype and help you get stuff off the ground.