Our Horizon

The Floating Laboratory of Action & Theory At Sea (FLOATS) is an experimental platform dedicated to teaching, research, public engagements and awareness about the social sciences of the sea.  One of our main objectives is to offer a continuous critical commentary on the perils of our dominant territorial frameworks. We take seriously the idea of  “floating,” whether in terms of the state of contemporary forms of mobility and rootlessness that the space of the sea offers or as a means of fostering a series of "floating conversations" over the many pressing past and present challenges as well as creative opportunities of seas and shorelines.  Bringing together academics, artists, activists and others, FLOATS will rotate serially through the seas, stopping at several key port-cities and sites along the way to host a series of open meetings and public events.