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OCEAN / UNI

TBA21–Academy’s metabolism of researching, digesting, producing, and sharing knowledges is disseminated through OCEAN / UNI, an initiative dedicated to art, activism, art, and science that invites fluid thinking with the Ocean as a way to move beyond the binaries of land and sea. Aiming to complement and enhance land-based understanding of the Earth, it covers a wide range of ecological, political, aesthetic, ethical, and scientific topics around the realities and futures of the Ocean. The program takes place online and is tuition-free and open to the general public.

Through critical conversations with artists, activists, scientists, scholars, and storytellers, each semester unfolds different themes and viewpoints around the potentials and perils of oceanic transformation. The lessons are supported by research clusters and shared forms of inquiry set to guide curiosity, foster transdisciplinary exchange, and inform methodologies of radical sensitivity and regenerative culture. Aiming to activate critical ocean literacy, OCEAN / UNI and its collaborating partners in international educational institutions seek to formulate propositions that bring together various formats of engagement with the Ocean, its communities and its other-than-human inhabitants.

OCEAN / UNI’s Curriculum provides students, researchers, and the public with wide-ranging and accessible explorations through regular live sessions, reading groups, small-scale workshops or activations, collective visual notebooks, an online archive of gathered knowledge and materials, as well as through ocean comm/uni/ty - a user-friendly platform that functions as a digital access point to ongoing and past programs of OCEAN / UNI. ocean comm/uni/ty harbors collaboration and offers a space for researchers, practitioners, and ocean lovers of all stripes to exchange knowledge and seek inspiration; to share and promote their work; to spark and maintain collaborations. In concert with OCEAN / UNI and Ocean-Archive.org, ocean comm/uni/ty forms an immersive three-pronged ecosystem for learning, discovering, and gathering.