The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Studio Editorial 2025
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Through a hypothesis- and opportunity-driven process, we will explore how the Norwegian Directorate of Elections can serve as a neutral platform for young voters to learn about politics. The platform promotes critical thinking and aims to give users greater confidence in their own positions, making it easier for them to participate in public debate.
“Mitt Standpunkt” is a digital platform designed to help young people explore politics, reflect on their values, and develop a deeper understanding of their political standpoint through short, interactive exercises.
The platform features a personal dashboard that evolves as users explore different political topics. Through value prioritization, party alignment indicators, a political compass, and reflection tools, users can discover how their views relate to different political parties while being encouraged to question and reconsider their opinions.
Our research revealed that young voters often struggle with complex voting advice applications and polarized political content on social media. Many feel uncertain about their own opinions, highlighting a need for a more accessible and nuanced approach to political learning.
The project followed a hypothesis-driven design process involving concept exploration, iterative prototyping, and user testing with students at OsloMet and AHO. Insights from meetings with the Norwegian Directorate of Elections and an election researcher also helped shape and refine the final concept.
Your political color palette shows that politics are not black and white, and you can agree on different parties on different topics.
The dashboard shows where you stand in the political landscape and updates in real time based on your views.
In highlighted values you can adjust the size of a value, and see you color palette on different topics. The party you are most agree with are ment as indicators, not party match.In the value compass you get an indicator on how you position yorself in the political landscape. You can go back to your previos exercises to adjust you answer, encourages to reflect and change your mind.
Even tho it was not our main focus in this task we created wireframes on how the exercises could look like, focusing on other opinions, value based questions, how it will affect the user, and interactivity with possible outcomes.
From twelve initial ideas, we developed four concepts.Our focus area was values and personalization.Suggested topics for you topics will appear, based on you interests.
We made a scenario with Pia. She was used to learn about politics through social media, where debates are black-and-white and opinions increasingly extreme. After using “Mitt standpunkt”, she discovered that politics is nuanced, and that it is possible to agree with all political parties on different issues.