Baltic Sea Lab
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Baltic Sea Lab
The Baltic Sea Lab is a project, an ever-changing collective of researchers and artists, that develops co-creative ways and tools to activate people to promote sea health.
bobielbobmail@gmail.com
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The dimensions most relevant to this project are: inspiring
Julia Lohmann & Department of Seaweed
The main aim of the project is to grow a network of stakeholders willing to care for their local sea environment through co-creative engagement. The Baltic Sea Lab believes that creative practices are powerful tools to invite communities to engage with the sea and its need for protection. But since creative practices are often very tied to the artist who came up with it, there is a need to learn how projects can be untied from artists, transcend, scale up and down and be applied by a variety of people. Uncovering this is a part of the Baltic Sea Lab’s mission.
1. All artists concerned with sea health
2. Researchers concerned with sea health
1. Inspire and inform to make art that activates and empowers local communities
2. Provide artistic ways to disseminate knowledge (sea literacy) and urgency for non-academic groups
‘’When we are dealing with the sea, no human is the key stakeholder because we affect an environment we do not inhabit. It becomes obvious that we have to find ways of giving attention and agency to non-human stakeholders.’’
Julia Lohmann, head of the Department of Seaweed
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Through experiential engagement with the ocean, the Baltic Sea Lab wants to continuously inspire new artistic initiatives about sea health
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