OUR JOURNEY

We are an international experimental platform aiming to generate, pluralize and popularize action for and theory of the seas through research, teaching, public campaigns, activism and community work.

Our hope is to offer a continuous critical commentary on the perils of the current, worldwide domination of territorial and terrestrial frameworks. We take seriously the idea of “floating,” whether in terms of the state of contemporary forms of insurgent mobility at sea or by way of a series of "floating conversations" over the many past and present challenges as well as the creative opportunities for action and theory provided by seas, shorelines and waterways.

Bringing together academics, artists, activists and communities, FLOATS rotates through various seas, islands and port cities. Having started first with the Mediterranean, docking in the island of Lesvos, it then moved through the Atlantic and stopped at the island of New York City and now it is temporarily docked in Beirut, out of which it runs several projects on critical mapping, research, pedagogy and public awareness.

We hope to continue to land periodically at maritime sites to engage communities and host open meetings, foster research, promote creative engagements, and raise public awareness around this last and now ever-threatened terraqueous global commons.