photo Sea-Water Amplification (SWA) Ilha do Pico, Azores, Atlantic Ocean 2024

Sea-Water Amplification Ocean School

as a planetary garden

Instead of being limited to a small space that we control, from now on the garden is placed within the limits of the biosphere. And this garden is entrusted to our care. Hence, a feeling of collective responsibility: what we do here will inevitably have repercussions over there, on the other side of the planet, to the extent that each one of us, in our daily activities, in our way of understanding the world and transforming it, however little that may be, can in our own way be a planetary gardener.

photo Sea-Water Amplification (SWA) Ilha do Pico, Azores, Atlantic Ocean 2024

The story of our planet is the story of a water ball shrouded by the ocean, with springs, streams, canals and rivers all around it and also under us and with all that water flowing eventually into the sea…

Tales about the ocean can help us understand the world, our places in it and can stimulate the curiosity and wonder that has the power to create new (unexpected) connections, new ideas, new ways and approaches to thinking about the ocean and our relationship to it and other marine-aquatic environments.

Creating a more ocean-literate society means that we are able to make more informed and responsible decisions about the ocean and all the wonders and immense generosity that the ocean offers us.

photo Sea-Water Amplification (SWA) Ilha do Pico, Azores, Atlantic Ocean 2024

The SWA Oceanic School represents an opportunity for a comprehensive understanding of our relationship with the ocean. Our activities are not only for pre-school and school age children, but are aimed at absolutely everyone who is interested in this type of education. Through our activities we strive to address complex challenges in a holistic way.

photo Sea-Water Amplification (SWA) Ilha do Pico, Azores, Atlantic Ocean 2024

As part of our educational and research practice, we propose that we can only get closer to understanding the vitality and complexity of human-weather relationships if children have the opportunity for sensory and affective engagement with the weather. These connections, which are created in small daily meetings, persist and open up care opportunities in response to climate change.

photo Sea-Water Amplification (SWA) Ilha do Pico, Azores, Atlantic Ocean 2024

Where we are

The SWA Ocean School and all of our educational and research activities take place in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on the island of Pico (Ilha do Pico) in the Azores archipelago.

photo Sea-Water Amplification (SWA) Ilha do Pico, Azores, Atlantic Ocean 2024

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Related activities:

Here we provide references to our own research work related to the project Pedagogy for Expanded-Interspecies Listening.

📒 Pedagogy for Expanded-Interspecies Listening 2023

📒 Pedagogy for Expanded-Interspecies Listening, exhibition 2023

📒 Where Whales Swim With Open Mouths , I Sing About The Water Surface, Related water education 2023

📒 I’ll take you to places you’ve never been, audio works 2023

📒 I’ll take you to places you’ve never been, exhibition 2024