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.

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

Julia Lohmann & Department of Seaweed