Resources
From the beginning, the project was designed to produce outputs that outlast it – tools, methods, platforms and knowledge that other cities, institutions, researchers and practitioners can build on. Everything in this section is freely available. Nothing requires a login, a fee, or a formal partnership agreement.
If you are a coastal city thinking about replication, start with the Geospatial Platform and the Replication Proposals. If you are a researcher or practitioner, the Impact Assessment Framework and the scientific publications are the most substantial contributions. If you are new to the project and want to understand what it did and how, the videocast series is the best place to begin.
Digital Tools and Platforms
Bauhaus of the Seas Sails Geospatial Platform
The most complete digital window into the project. The platform maps all seven pilots, their drops, their impacts and their ecological and urban contexts across an interactive geospatial interface. Users can compare pilot locations, analyse any coastal site by adjusting the analysis radius and explore place-based stories through a full-screen storytelling mode that combines narrative, geography and data in a single experience.
Developed by TU Delft’s PortCityFutures team, the platform was designed not just to document what Bauhaus of the Seas Sails did but to help others understand how the project’s approaches might translate to their own contexts. It is the recommended first stop for any city or institution considering replication.
PAVIS AR
A mobile augmented reality application that links community-collected stories to geolocated sites along Genoa’s Sturla coastline. Users can access curated narratives through a map interface, a list view, or an AR mode that overlays three-dimensional objects onto the physical landscape, activating stories when touched on site.
Developed by the Italian Institute of Technology, PAVIS AR is available on Android and its full codebase has been released as open source. The platform is designed to be adapted: any city with stories to tell and a coastline to tell them on can take the codebase and build their own version.
Regenerative Lagoon
A living digital platform built around the ecology and food culture of the Venice Lagoon. The platform brings together traditional recipes, the stories of fishermen and farmers, knowledge about local species and fishing tools and the perspectives of citizens, experts and community members who have a relationship with the lagoon. It is open to contributions – anyone with knowledge of the Venice Lagoon can add to it.
Developed by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, the platform is designed to grow beyond the project’s lifetime as a shared community resource and archive.
The_knows everything
An online platform curating the work of the Hamburg fellowship programme – recipes, projects, food practices and the stories behind them. Developed as part of the Ocean Literacy eco-gastronomy strand, the platform makes the knowledge generated through the fellowship publicly accessible and keeps it in circulation as a resource for food education, sustainable gastronomy and regenerative practice.
EdenX
A research prototype developed by Joana Pestana (PhD) which was tested in Oeiras to model how non-human interests – species, habitats, ecological processes – might be formally represented in institutional governance using participatory processes and large language model technology. The prototype was tested at the Vasco da Gama Aquarium with participants representing the interests of the Tagus estuary. The methodology and findings are fully documented in the peer-reviewed publication and are available for adaptation by research teams and cultural organisations working with questions of more-than-human governance.
Toolkits
Six transferable toolkits were developed from the experience of the seven pilots. Each is designed for reuse – by coastal cities, cultural institutions, educators, community organisations and practitioners working in the space between culture, ecology and participation. Each toolkit contains practical guidance, methods and formats that can be adapted to new contexts without requiring the resources of a Horizon Europe project to implement.
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