Harvard University
Graduate School of Design
Graduate School of Design
Oceanic Protocols: navigating leaks and troubled waters is a micropedia of 28 figures that propose a shift in the design field from terra firma to aqua firma. Three central case studies of the Feejee Mermaid, Ocean Floor Maps, and the Dolphin Embassy –surrounded by 13 occurrences– elaborate on how seawater has always affected design histories and vice versa. Taking the form of a trembling collection of images and essays, the project critically and playfully explores the characteristics of oceans as a medium/a, their materiality, represen- tations, and limits. Thus, a provocation: can oceanic protocols steer us toward decolonial ecologies of more-than-human onto-epistemologies?
Recipient of the Harvard GSD M.Des Domain Award.
Recipient of the Harvard GSD M.Des Domain Award.
