Shock Forest Group (2019) is an international research team consisting of architects, cartographers, linguists, coders, urban planners, sound makers, biologists, designers and engineers. It is an experiment in open research, where the research categories surface as the research develops. It is also an experiment in alternative education, a classroom without a teacher, where learning emerges as a product of polyphony.

One end goal of the Group is to create an “instrument of resonance” which, when placed in a specific context, analyses and orders (or disorders) the local data (and non-data). The Shock Forest Group instrument of resonance might let out a scream (a sound) which could unveil the multiple layers of local livelihoods and communicate these via sound, light and/or movement.

After ten weeks of research, the Shock Forest Group presents their results in the presentation No Camouflage. The presentation, consisting of 5 installations placed in different spaces of Het HEM, will be on show until December 20, 2019.