SLU Urban Futures is now part of a new phase for the Bauhaus of the Seas Sails project and the Sea Forum in Malmö. In this new phase, the members of the Sea Forum will start a new form of collaboration as an Ocean Culture Hub through the organizational form of a pilot-Zoöp.
The Bauhaus of the Seas Sails (BoSS) is a European Union-funded project under the New European Bauhaus (NEB) initiative. It seeks to foster ethical and aesthetic regenerative development, reimagining our relationship with the sea from multiple perspectives. In November 2023, SLU Urban Futures joined the forum in Malmö.
The new phase of BoSS is launching a pilot-Zoöp. Zoöp is a collaboration in which humans collaborate with other-than-human life. It is short for Zoöperation: coöperation with zoë – (Greek for ‘life’). Together with other Zoöps the idea is to work towards the transformation of our economy into a regenerative human-inclusive ecosystem, a network of exchange of matter, energy and meaning that supports all life in its existence.
In all their actions BoSS aims to support the health of the ecosystems in which we participate, that include multispecies communities in in the water, on land, in the soil and in the air. By using the Zoöp model BoSS will continue the work with creating an underwater park in Södra Varvsbassängen in Malmö. They aim to explore how an underwater park can become an inviting and engaging space and how the reef in Södra Varvsbassängen could be made accessible to the people of Malmö all year round. They also aim to foster a shift in how Malmö residents perceive and interact with the sea, encouraging behaviours that benefit more-than-human life and support a thriving marine ecosystem.
The World Ocean Day
On June 8th, the World Ocean Day will be celebrated in Malmö. The BoSS project are going to organise maritime activities at the area of Södra Varvsbassängen, involving SLU students partaking. At the course Environmental discourses and Communication, which is a part of the bachelors program Forest & Landscape, the students will study the ocean as a forgotten landscape. Students will have the opportunity to dive deeper into questions related to the water landscape and join the World Ocean Day presenting their campaigns. Other activities include cultural activities, reef building, diving for litter and much more!
Call for action:
Are you, as a researcher, teacher or student at SLU, interested to know more or do you want to get involved in the project? Get in touch in case you are working with similar questions and urban waterscapes at large.
