PROTOTYPING THE FUTURE OF OCEAN INNOVATION

Can we build towards a sustainable ocean future without imaginaries that spark collective action?

M.A.NA - What could a future blue economy look like that valued life rather than death? How could we combine AI, governance and legal innovations and ocean infrastructure to create new ocean economies?

HAVSRÅ - What might activism around deep sea mining and other environmental challenges look like in the future? How might we build next generation monitoring, surveillance and enforcement tools to protect and restore ocean ecosystems?

MATSYA - Who gets to own the genetic wealth of our oceans in the future? how might we think differently about the diversity of resources under the surface of the ocean?

These are just a few of the questions that the short sci-fi films explore. Each film acts as a spark for rethinking innovation. What is the scale and type of innovations that are needed to face the challenges facing our ocean and us as a species? What can we innovate our way out of and what might we be force to innovate through? How do we think about technological, social and governance innovations together and, what does it mean for an innovation to be radical when all futures are radical?

Working with speculative prototypes is a tangible way to connect emergent technological and social innovations for addressing ocean challenges and what kinds of worlds they contribute towards building. If you are interested in exploring ocean futures in the context of your organisation, or working with science fiction prototyping as an innovation tool, please reach out to radicalearthfutures@gmail.com

The project to create these short films ‘Ocean Futurisms’ is a unique collaboration between Radical Ocean Futures (an art-science initiative that emerged from Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University), TBA21 and Inferstudio. More info and context here