birger sevaldson: hey, what''s this supposed to be?

Die Ausstellung "social scale" vereint Projekte einer mit Großbritannien verbundenen Gruppe von Architekten, deren persönliche Verbindung durch die gemeinsame Lehrtätigkeit an der Architectural Association in London gegeben ist. Im Rahmen der Ausstellung finden an drei Abenden Vorträge statt.

"OCEAN is a new network of interdisciplinary practices. They foster the hitherto heretical notion of open accessibility and collective interchange of ideas and data. Urban design, architecture, installation art must, they claim, be interactive. furniture can be seen as an extension of urban space; building as an intensification of landscape. Space is constantly evolving, always ''decoding'' its environment." hilary finch

"fields of ambigiuty, event envelopes & other spatio-temporal paradigms of emergent social arrangements." OCEAN north

OCEAN north is a nonprofit based and multidisciplinary group of designers, architects and urbanists that conducts research in design. OCEAN north''s research teams are located in Helsinki, Oslo and London and are being led by Kivi Sotamaa, Birger Sevaldson and Michael Hensel respectively.

Recent publications include 10 x 10 (Phaidon), Contemporary Processes in Architecture (AD Wiley Academy), and Hybrid Space (Thames & Hudson).