On 19th of February the Fundation Epica La Fura del Baus, Badalona (Spain), hosted and organised the First PartArt4OW Demo Days — a celebration of creativity, collaboration, and ocean innovation. Opening workshops, exhibitions and participatory experiences developed by artists and scientists working on ocean and water challenges. PartArt4OW Participatory Art Initiatives (PAIs)selected in the first... Continue Reading →

On the 31st of January 2026, CO>SEA team including Chiara Certomà and Giorgio Garofani (Sapienza MEMOTEF) + Federico Fornaro and Giuseppe Lupinacci (Raw-News Visual Production Agency) visited Fiumicino - Isola Sacra area (Rome, Italy) as part of th small research project “BLUE_HN European Harbour Neighbourhoods between political resistance and socio-cultural revitalisation practices for blue transition” (Sapienza... Continue Reading →

The initiative is bringing together Europe’s ocean communities working at the intersection of participatory art, science, and society The EU Horizon project “PartArt4OW. Participatory Art For Society Engagement with Ocean and Water” announces the launch of the PartArt4OW Sailing Lab, a research and documentation sailing boat crossing the Mediterraneum in summer 2026 to connect artists,... Continue Reading →

A new event recap docu-video titled "Marine Social Research. Present and Future of Science, Creativity and Participation for the Ocean" has just been released by CO>SEA at MEMOTEF Dep. Sapienza University of Rome produced by Raw-News Visual Production Agency (filmed by Federico Fornaro, edited by Federico Fornaro and Giuseppe Lupinacci, scientific coordination Chiara Certoma'), with... Continue Reading →

...“Tell me about the Ocean” ...“The Ocean cannot be told” This paradox frames the enquiry developed in our recent article published in J-READING, which investigates the possibility of defining an Oceanic Sense of Place. Situated at the intersection of critical ocean studies and geographical debates on place-making, the paper examines how place emerges at sea... Continue Reading →

[photo G.Lupinacci] What are the main environmental problems in the Gulf of Anzio? And how do major global challenges, such as climate change, intertwine with daily life and the local environment? What protection measures have been implemented? And how has the relationship between the sea and society changed? The participatory research project "CoSea_Lab. Collaborative Laboratory... Continue Reading →

On the 7th of November, during the creative workshop "Marine Social Research. Present and Future of science, creativity and participation for the Ocean", the new video-documentary “CoSea. Critical Visions from the Sea”, produced by Raw-News Visual Production Agency and directed by Federico Fornaro, is premiered at the Sapienza University of Rome - MEMOTEF Department. Based... Continue Reading →

Supported by the Sapienza University of Rome - Horizon Europe Projects Coordination Fund 2025, Chiara Certomà (Sapienza - MEMOTEF) and Federico Fornaro (Raw-News Visual Production Agency) realised a 3-day field research in the port of Cork and the harbour of Cobh, Ireland, from the 15th to the 17th of October 2025. The field work adopted... Continue Reading →

Writing and documentation expedition Within the framework of the pilot project “CoSea_Lab. Collaborative Laboratory for the Sea and Socio-Environmental Sustainability in the Gulf of Anzio”, funded by Sapienza University of Rome – Third Mission, on the 9-11 May 2025 the CO>SEA research group continues its activities of analysis, documentation, and elaboration of results through a... Continue Reading →

The CO>SEA research team invites eveybody to the creative workshop "Marine Social Research. Present and Future of science, creativity and participation for the Ocean" will be held on the 3rd of October 2025 at Sapienza University of Rome, MEMOTEF Dep (via del Castro Laurenziano 9, Rome). The worshop is part of the EU Horizon project PartArt4OW and the activities of the SAP&O Science+Art+Participation in&about the Ocean group.

On the 9th of October, 12 am-1 pm, CO>SEA team is taking part in the Pianeta Mare Film Festival, at the Aula Magna Scampia, University of Naples Federico II. The Festival takes place in Naples from October 7 to 11 in five locations: two cinematinee in the Aula Magna of the Parthenope University of Naples,... Continue Reading →

SUDNORD - NORDSUD September 13, 2025 | 4:00 PM - 11:00 PM Molo Innocenziano Port of Anzio Promoted by IBIS APS Cultural Association "A small door to the sea. A real and symbolic passage between South and North, between those who leave and those who arrive, between desires and shipwrecks." SUDNORD - NORDSUD is an... Continue Reading →

On the 27th of August 2025, Chiara Certomà (Sapienza University of Rome, MEMOTEF Dep.) and Federico Fornaro (Raw-News Visual Production Agency), research team CO>SEA, presented the premiere of the new  short-documentary “Around Alone. Documenting Ocean Relationships” at the Royal Geographical Sociaty with IBS Annual Conference 2025 (RGS AC2025), University of Birmingham, “Film Geography” session. "Around... Continue Reading →

CO>SEA team is presenting at the RGS with IBG Conference 2025, held at the University of Birgmingham, 26-29th Aug, the photo exhibition "An intimate connection. Society and the Ocean in Water Photography" produced for the EU project PartArt4OW as slideshow amongst the highligths of the event. Part of the photographies are included in the book “Blue Kinships. An Exploration of Society & the Ocean” (edited by Chiara Certomà, published by Palgrave MacMillan, New York, 2025) and in the CO>SEA research on "A sense of oceanic place"(forth.).

[cover graphic Allegra Guerrazzi] Blue Kinships, edited by Chiara Certomà, as just been released by Palgrave MacMillan, NY. Blue Kinship contributes to the emergent movement of ideas and practices that are interpreting the ocean as a conceptual and physical space for reconsidering our relationship with the complex, heterogeneous and mutable ecological systems of the Anthropocene;... Continue Reading →

The results of the CoSea_Lab research describing the state of the sea and the coast of Anzio (Rome, Italy) as a result of a participatory social geography research and mapping. The CO>SEA project proposes an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral approach to analysing the socio-environmental transformations of marine and coastal ecosystems, with particular reference to the Gulf of Anzio (Lazio, Italy). Drawing on the theoretical framework of Critical Ocean Studies and Marine Social Geography, the initiative combines natural and social sciences, participatory citizen science, political ecology, and visual documentation to promote innovative models of environmental governance. Starting from the systemic crisis of the global ocean (pollution, overexploitation, acidification, biodiversity loss), the project criticises the inadequacy of technocratic approaches typical of the Blue Economy. It promotes a relational, situated, and multispecies vision of the sea, understood as an ecological, cultural, and political space.

As part of the public engagement activities of the EU Horizon project PartArt4OW – Participatory Art for Society Engagement with Ocean and Water and the scientific co-creation of knowledge about Ocean and Society advanced by participation for raising awareness about the issues affecting the Ocean, CO>SEA Collaboratorium for the Socio-Environmental Analysis of the Ocean, Raw-News... Continue Reading →

[photo G.Lupinacci, CoSea_Lab reportage] On the 26th of June 2025, CoSea_Lab presented for the first time the photographic reportage "CO>SEA. Collaboratorium for Socio-Environmental Analysis of the Ocean" by Giuseppe Lupinacci/Raw-News, documenting the participatory action-research activities performed during the pilot implementation in Anzio (Rome). The reportages document some of the main emergencies identified during the field... Continue Reading →