Birger Sevaldson presented three OCEAN installations in five version at the seminar about integrated art at the Norwegian Association for architects. The Seminar was arranged by NAL the Norwegian architectural association and NIL Norwegian association for interior architects.
While the other lecturers talked of art integrated into architecture, Birger addressed and demonstrated how art can integrate with real life. The installations all address this issue in different ways. Chamberworks reflects the complexity of urban life, Agora :boundary conditions bridges spaces in a highly visually and auditive intensive space the Oslo Central Station while barely feeds from background noise and visual material in the environment.
OCEAN has elected a new board
Thursday, 17 September 2009 18:27
OCEAN has elected a new board.
The new board is
Defne Sunguroglu
Yasha Grobmann
Jeff Turko
Michael Hensel (secretary)
Birger Sevaldson (chairman)
Simple Systems - Complex Capacities Competiton closing
Monday, 09 February 2009 15:35
The Arch+ competition Simple Systems - Complex Capacities, organised by Sabine Kraft of Arch+ and Michael Hensel and Achim Menges of OCEAN, is coming to a close. The technical jury will take place on Thursday 12 and Friday 13 February. The final jury will take place on Tuesday 17 February. For further details see: http://www.archplus.net/plus/
AA EmTech Annual Lecture Tuesday 20 January
Tuesday, 20 January 2009 08:34
On Tuesday 20 January Prof. Dr. Birger Sevaldson will deliver the Emergent Technologies and Design Annual Lecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. The lecture will take place at the AA lecture hall and commence at 18-00. The title of the lecture is Recent Works and Discussions from the OCEAN Research Network, examining projects such as the Barely Installation and the Deichmanske Mediastations.
Prof. Mark Burry becomes OCEAN honorary member
Tuesday, 25 November 2008 23:38
OCEAN is delighted to announce that Mark Burry, Professor of Innovation and Director of the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (SIAL) at RMIT University, Melbourne, has accepted the position of honorary member in the network. Professor Burry is widely known for his research and practice in computational design, especially as Executive Architect and Researcher to the Temple Sagrada Familia, Barcelona. More information will soon be posted in the honorary member section of the website.
http://www.sial.rmit.edu.au/
Prof. Dr. George Jeronimidis accepts honorary membership in OCEAN
Friday, 21 November 2008 13:05
The OCEAN network is delighted to announce that Prof. Dr. George Jeronimidis has accepted honorary membership in the research network OCEAN. George Jeronimidis is professor of composite materials engineering and Chair of the Center of Biomimetics at the University of Reading and founding member and board member of BIONIS - the Biomimetics Network for Industrial Sustainability.
More information will soon be available in the honorary member section of this website.
Friday November 28 the Deichmannske Media Stations will be exhibited at the Gallery of the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. The opening is at 1:00 pm.
The pods will be fully equipped with an interactive illumination system, sound system, touch screen and an interface prototype showing videos of the making of the pods and other media. You will also be able to purchase the book about the designing and making of the pods.
Barely-Part 2 opens
Saturday, 08 November 2008 14:53
BARELY-PART 2 opened at Galleri ROM in Oslo on 7th November. Around a hundred visitors were at the opening. www.r-o-m.no
'Simple Systems - Complex Capacities' Competition launched
Monday, 27 October 2008 13:22
The Arch+ competition Simple Systems - Complex Capacities, organised by Sabine Kraft of Arch+ and Michael Hensel and Achim Menges of OCEAN, has been launched. The competition is open and offers a prizemoney of 20.000 Euro. For further information see: http://www.archplus.net/plus/
'Forum:Form Conference' 06 November in Roros, Norway
Friday, 24 October 2008 07:39
Defne Sunguroglu Hensel will deliver a keynote lecture at the Forum:Form Conference on Thursday 06 November at Røros. The lecture is entitled 'Form-generation in Performance-oriented Design', and will discuss related concepts illustrated by projects of OCEAN.
'System Thinking and Integral Design' Book launched
Friday, 17 October 2008 11:17
The book on the research, design and production of the the Deichmannske Mediastations, entitled System Thinking and Integral Design, has been launched.
