Games & Play
Adaptive Futures Serious Game
Browser-playable game navigating adaptive pathways through ocean governance and futures — decisions with cascading systemic consequences.
02 / The collection
Explore the tapestry.
Signals, stories and provocations from where ocean science meets artistic practice.
Filter projects
Writing & Theory
Art-Science Ocean Collaborations
Society & Space critical essay on creating ocean publics through art-science collaboration — what it really means to make the sea 'something we all care about.'
Art & Exhibitions
ART4SEA — Mediterranean Residency
24 artists creating born-digital artworks and underwater museum projects across Ustica, Alonissos and Gozo — art for ocean literacy across the Mediterranean.
Digital & Immersive
Ayon Kim — Artist
Korean artist whose practice entangles ocean futures, ecology and speculative thought.
Youth & Education
Bow Seat Ocean Awareness
Global annual Ocean Awareness Contest opening the ocean to young artists worldwide — visual art, writing, film and music from every ocean-facing community.
Digital & Immersive
Carbon in the Current
OA Alliance × PangeaSeed × ETH Zurich: 3D animation making ocean acidification viscerally visible through data art. Debuted at the 2025 UN Ocean Conference in Nice.
Speculative Fiction
Clima Utopyas
25 cli-fi stories portraying a utopian 2050 society — a global mosaic of Hope, People and one Planet, with AI artist imaginaries throughout.
Speculative Fiction
CSI Arizona State: Climate Futures
Center for Science and the Imagination at ASU — speculative worldbuilding at the intersection of science fiction, film and climate imagination.
Speculative Fiction
Current Futures
Sci-fi short film anthology made for World Oceans Day 2019 — diverse visions of what our ocean relationship could become.
Speculative Fiction
Ecoceanic — Future Fiction
Italian speculative anthology imagining solarpunk and post-natural ocean futures from diverse global voices.
Rights of Nature
Ecosfera Baltica — HELCOM
HELCOM's digital Baltic Sea experience — immersive storytelling and ecological data about the Baltic's fragile ecosystem, made publicly accessible.
Rights of Nature
Embassy of the Baltic Sea
Representing the Baltic for the wellbeing of all — advocating for legal personhood for one of the world's most polluted seas. Foundation under construction.
Rights of Nature
Embassy of the North Sea
Giving the North Sea a political voice — Dutch organisation representing the sea in cultural, social and political arenas through research, events and legal advocacy.
Youth & Education
EMBracing the Ocean
European Marine Board artist-in-residence programme — €10,000 grants for co-creation between artists and ocean scientists across Europe.
New Discoveries
FATHOM — Roboto Octopodo
Portland's immersive multimedia ocean installation — kinetic whale sculpture, laser harp and optical illusion chambers. Ran for over a year in downtown Portland.
Architecture & Design
Floating Futures — Netherlands
Guardian 2025 photo essay on the Netherlands' radical experiments with floating architecture and water-adaptive urbanism as sea levels rise.
Youth & Education
Future Blue Youth Council
Bow Seat's youth ocean leaders programme — young people co-designing how ocean stories get told and acted upon globally.
Games & Play
Future of Water — Awareness Game
Players navigate speculative water futures — a futures literacy tool exploring how individual and collective decisions shape water systems.
Digital & Immersive
Hydrofeminist Manifesto
An ever-evolving collaborative web document drawing on Astrida Neimanis — bodies are water, water connects all bodies across time and space.
Architecture & Design
Jacques Rougerie Foundation Database
A decade of visionary ocean architecture competition entries — floating habitats, sea structures and climate-adaptive oceanic living across Sea, Space and Rising Oceans categories.
Digital & Immersive
Jakob Kudsk Steensen
Danish artist creating large-scale immersive digital ecosystems — Berl-Berl, The Ephemeral Lake, Psychosphere — where real-time 3D meets ecological grief and wonder.
Art & Exhibitions
Louisiana Museum: Ocean
Danish Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's major ocean exhibition — between art and artefact, between beauty and environmental urgency.
Writing & Theory
Marine Art Through the Centuries
The Conversation essay tracing how marine art evolved from romantic seascapes to climate crisis canvases and deep-sea imagery.
New Discoveries
Mori Artist: Future Water World
Artist Mori's speculative installation visualising a future water world full of plastic — immersive tableaux of oceanic futures.
Rights of Nature
North Sea: Living Marine Democracy
Speculative governance vision for 2045 from the Planetary Compendium — the North Sea's inhabitants (eel, kelp, sand, air) finally speak for themselves.
Digital & Immersive
Ocean Archive — TBA21
A living digital archive of ocean knowledge, art and research — non-linear, open, continuously accumulating.
Art & Exhibitions
Ocean Futures — Futurium Berlin
Futurium's first special exhibition (Nov 2025 – Aug 2026). Leeroy New's 'Balangay Spacecraft' connects Filipino and German fishing families through a vast speculative mangrove-island. Free entry.
Speculative Fiction
Ocean Futurisms — Infer Studio
Speculative design and futures thinking around ocean-human relationships from Infer Studio.
Art & Exhibitions
Ocean Space — TBA21, Venice
TBA21's Venice platform commissioning art at the intersection of ocean science and contemporary art. One of the world's foremost ocean art institutions.
Art & Exhibitions
Oceanic.Global — Art for the Ocean
Platform curating artists who place the ocean at the centre of their practice — bridging fine art, activism and ocean science.
Writing & Theory
One Ocean Foundation — Oceanic Humanity
Light installation merging X-rays of human bodies with microscope images of ocean plankton — commissioned by the Italian One Ocean Foundation.
Art & Exhibitions
Parley Art for the Oceans
Global fundraising initiative at Art Basel — artists uniting against plastic pollution, climate change and biodiversity loss through dedicated ocean artworks.
Writing & Theory
Playground — Richard Powers (2024)
Richard Powers' novel meditating on AI, deep ocean and the non-human timescales that make human ambition look brief.
Speculative Fiction
Radical Ocean Futures
Science fiction prototyping to imagine future oceans — new narratives for sustainable ocean governance beyond conventional prediction.
Digital & Immersive
Sketches of Sensorium — AlloSphere
UCSB's 360° AlloSphere as an immersive ocean health experience — produced with Getty PST Art: Art and Science Collide.
Games & Play
Solarpunk Futures Card Game
A storytelling card game — players invoke ancestral knowledge to collaboratively build pathways to utopian ocean futures. Free print-and-play.
New Discoveries
Soul of a Sailor — Kasia Molga
AI-generated narrative at SIGGRAPH 2025 drawn from her late father's maritime journals — exploring digital afterlife, grief and speculative ocean memory.
Art & Exhibitions
Stephanie Kilgast — For Planet Ocean
Intricate polymer clay miniatures of oceanic ecosystems blooming from discarded everyday objects — celebrating marine biodiversity through upcycled sculpture.
Games & Play
Terra Nil
A reverse city-builder where you restore nature rather than exploit it — ecological restoration as play, instilling hope through the act of healing landscape.
Rights of Nature
The Indigo Civilization
Vision of symbiotic living on and with the ocean — adapting to rising sea levels without fighting the sea, through new forms of oceanic civilisation.
Art & Exhibitions
The Ocean After Nature — ICI
Independent Curators International travelling exhibition — challenging the idea of the ocean as 'natural', entangled with culture, politics and industry.
Youth & Education
TIDAL ArtS
EU-funded project combining art and science to inspire action for ocean and water restoration. Official project of the EU Mission to Restore Our Ocean and Waters by 2030.
New Discoveries
WEF Art & Rising Sea Levels — Davos 2023
World Economic Forum feature on artists putting rising sea levels in the spotlight — creative responses to ocean-climate intersection at Davos 2023.
Art & Exhibitions
Weltmuseum Wien: Oceans
Vienna's Weltmuseum presenting its ocean-related collections — a reflective exhibition on cultural and ecological entanglements.
Youth & Education
WWF Art for Your Oceans
WWF UK's programme bringing artists into dialogue with marine conservation environments — inspiring public action through creative engagement.
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