OCEAN Design Research Association

ABOUT OCEAN

The OCEAN Design Research Association is a not-for-profit association registered in 2008 in Norway that conducts inter- and transdisciplinary research in design across disciplines. OCEAN is registered in the Norwegian Public Registry (www.brreg.no) under the Organisation Number 992 449 705. OCEAN features a high profile sub-division entitled OCEAN | SEA that resulted from OCEAN fusing with the Sustainable Environment Association.

Today the association has 23 active members and 14 honorary in OCEAN and OCEAN | SEA that collaborate in the context of OCEAN's research areas and frameworks. OCEAN has a significant publication track-record that includes numerous authored and edited books and journals, and an extensive list of peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers.

OCEAN integrates expertise in architecture and urban design, civil and structural engineering, advanced computational design, industrial design, bio-inspired design and biomimetics, musical composition, system-thinking and the crafts.

OCEAN members and OCEAN and OCEAN | SEA honorary members are located in Australia, Canada, Chile, Denmark, England, Estonia, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and the USA.

OCEAN collaborates with other research organizations, practices and educational institutions.

OCEAN was initially founded in 1994 as a collaborative and interdisciplinary network focusing on research by design in architecture and urban design. Its scope was expanded in 1995 to include various other creative disciplines. From 1998 to 2008 the network operated as an experimental interdisciplinary design practice under the name OCEAN NORTH. During this period the network developed numerous high-profile projects that feature in the collections of FRAC - Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain in Orléans, France, and the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress in the United States. Furthermore OCEAN works featured in several times in the Venice and Beijing Architectural Biennales, as well as other high-profile venues.

RESEARCH FRAMEWORKS

OCEAN has currently two main research frameworks that provide overarching conceptual approaches to various research areas:

• Performance-oriented Design;  www.performanceorienteddesign.net
• Systems-oriented Design; www.systemsorienteddesign.net

CURRENTLT ACTIVE RESEARCH AREAS 

• Architecture + Biology [PoD]
  
• Architectural History from a Performance Perspective [PoD]
  
• Advanced Computational Design | Digital Creativity
  
• Grounds and Envelopes
• Local Architectures | Local Urbanism [PoD]
  
• Research by Design
• Tectonics [inc. Auxiliary Architectures, Experimental Structures]
  

CURRENTLY INACTIVE RESEARCH AREAS 

• Sound Environments

PAST RESEARCH AREAS 

• Digital Creativity [research partially continued in Advances Computational Design]

MEMBERS

• Dr. Natasha Barrett - Oslo, Norway
  
• Guillem Baraut Bover - Barcelona, Spain
  
• Asst. Prof. Dr. Nimish Biloria - Delft, The Netherlands
  
• Master-mason Øyvind Buset - Oslo, Norway
  
• Dr. Salmaan Craig - Cambridge, MA, USA
  
• Christina Doumpioti - Geneva, Switzerland
  
• Hülya Ertaş - Istanbul, Turkey
  
• Asst. Prof. Dr. Marie Frier Hvejsel - Aalborg, Denmark
  
• Prof. Dr. Michael U. Hensel - Oslo, Norway + Istanbul, Turkey
  
• Dr. Pavel Hladik - London, UK
  
• Asst. Prof. Joakim Wiig Hoen - Oslo, Norway
  
• Prof. Dr. Peter Hayward Jones - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  
• Sofia Martins da Cunha - Oslo, Norway
  
• Prof. Dr. Fredrik Nilsson - Stockholm + Gothenburg, Sweden
  
• Dr. Renee Puusepp - Tallinn, Estonia
  
• Dr. Janne Reitan - Oslo, Norway
• Dr. Christopher Robeller - Lausanne, Switzerland
  
• Dr. Jonas Runberger - Stockholm + Gothenburg, Sweden
  
• Dr. Alex Ryan - Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
  
• Prof. Dr. Birger R. Sevaldson - Oslo, Norway
  
• Asst. Prof. Søren Sørensen - Oslo, Norway
  
• Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel - Oslo, Norway + Istanbul, Turkey
  
• Jeffrey P. Turko - Brighton, UK
  

OCEAN HONORARY MEMBERS

• Associate Prof. Dr. Ipek Akpinar - ITU, Istanbul, Turkey
• Prof. Dr. Tevfik Balcıoğlu - Yashar University, Izmir, Turkey
• Prof. Dr. Anne Beim - CINARK, KADK, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Prof. Mark Burry - University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia / Barcelona, Spain
• Prof. Emeritus Dr. Derek Clements-Croome - University of Reading, Reading, England
  
• Prof. Dr. Murray Fraser - UCL, London, England
• Prof. Emeritus Dr. George Jeronimidis - University of Reading, Reading, England
• Prof. Dr. David Jolly Monge - e[ad], Ritoque, Valparaiso, Chile
• Prof. Dr. Harold G. Nelson - USA
• Prof. Emeritus Dr. Julian Vincent - Bath, England

OCEAN | SEA HONORARY MEMBERS

• Prof. Dr. Şengül Öymen Gür, Beykent University, Istanbul, Turkey
  
• Prof. Dr. Mark Jarzombek, MIT, Cambridge Mass., USA
  
• Pietro Laureano, ICOMOS, Italy
  
• Prof. Saverio Mecca, UNIFI, Florence, Italy
  

REGISTRATION

The OCEAN Design Research Association is registered in the Norwegian Public registry Brønnøysundregisteret:

www.brreg.no

Organization Number: 992 449 705

Organisation Name: OCEAN DESIGNFORSKNING

Type of Organization: Forening/lag/innretning (Association)

Address: Graabrødregaten 14, c/o Birger Sevaldson, 3110 Tønsberg

Contact information for Association and board related matters:Tel: + 47 9118 9544

Email: Birger.Sevaldson(at)aho.no 

BOARD

Founding Chairman (2008): Prof. Dr. Michael U. Hensel

Acting Chairman: Prof. Dr. Michael U. Hensel (since 2010)

Vice-Chair: Dr. Pavel Hladik

Deputy Vice-chair: Jeffrey P. Turko

Secretary: Søren S. Sørensen

Daily Manager: Prof. Dr. Birger R. Sevaldson

Board:

• Dr. Nimish Biloria
  
• Dr. Pavel Hladik
• Prof. Dr. Birger R. Sevaldson
• Prof. Søren Sørensen
• Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel
• Jeffrey P. Turko

Web-editor: Prof. Dr. Birger R. Sevaldson