Sea Inside

The emerging practice of transformation services employs design skills in non-traditional territories and brings together a diversity of intelligences, communication types and frameworks from which to define a problem and develop real-world solutions. Sea Inside is a contribution to the growing discourse around the transformations taking place at the intersection of design, culture and marine ecology. The thesis paper describes the importance of exercising a holistic approach to solving complex problems such as the current crisis threatening our planet’s ocean (and by extension, ourselves). This technique has emerged and developed from my practice of designing a small-scale temporary environment – in the form of a pilot exhibition, interactive features and creative workshops – that attempt to focus participant’s actions and dialogues on the relationship we have with the sea around, and inside us. The project intends to transform people’s perspectives, maintain current positive association and/or provide critical reflection and reflexive opportunities to engage with the subject matter of the ocean. It is hoped that this evolution of the intersections between multiple creative disciplines will support the continued transformation of the participants and encourage actions towards designing and implementing more sustainable ways of living with the ocean in the future.