OCEAN / UNI, TBA21–Academy’s itinerant pedagogical platform, turns for its Spring semester 2026 toward the human dimensions of Mediterranean biodiversity. Participants are invited to examine how plural values, practices, and policies shape shared seas and coastal life. Across one introductory meeting and six biweekly sessions, we invite you to come together with MEDiverSEAty fellows, scholars, artists, researchers and community actors on the topics of values, participation and policy, digital narratives, relational foodscapes, and (sea)rewilding. In these exchanges, we traverse the passageways between the monoliths of art, science and conservation, led by scholars and speakers who are working towards porous futures for human–ocean relations.
On March 18, 2026, during Session 4 Relational Foodscapes by the Sea of OCEAN / UNI by TBA21–Academy, Yolenn Farges will present Mediterranean Intersection, an editorial series developed with Fondazione Studio Rizoma.
The project approaches the Mediterranean as a living body shaped by exchanges, memories, and ecological change. Here, cooking becomes a poetic and political tool: recipes turn into living archives, coastal communities into sensitive maps, and food practices into shared ecological gestures.
Read and download the publication here!
To take part in this semester, please register via the form at tba21.org. Access details will be available via email and on the dedicated space on the ocean comm/uni/ty.
All main sessions and activations take place live online via Zoom, biweekly on Wednesdays at 6 pm CET or CEST // 12 pm ET // 1 pm AT // 2 pm BRT // 7 pm SAST // 10.30 pm IST
