OCEAN is a Norway-based network founded in 1994 to undertake international, interdisciplinary and independent research in the areas of architecture, computational science, biology, music, climatology, landscape and product design, and other fields of inquiry.
OCEAN aims to facilitate collaborative research by design with a focus of improving the human environment. It has produced work ranging from exhibitions of Performance-oriented Design to publications on 3D Audio and Sound-Art. Its diverse group of members hail from a range of countries from Italy to Israel and Australia to the United States, but are based mainly in Oslo, London, Sydney and Istanbul.