Sea-Water Amplification (SWA): Introduction
We would like to introduce ourselves. We are Sea-Water Amplification (SWA) a family environment for education and research. In the past, we worked on the Portuguese coast line Praia de Norte. Currently, all our educational and research activities take place on the Pico island (Ilha do Pico) in the archipelago of the Azores.
The Education and Research Environment Sea-Water Amplification (SWA) aims to develop, in a small transdisciplinary team of three adults and two kids (6 years, 3 years), interspecies communication, multi-sensory methods of cognition and situated knowledges in relation to the outdoor pedagogy and epistemology of seascape. The epistemology of seascape in this project is not only a critical knowledges of the ocean or other marine-aquatic environments, but also encompasses a multitude of events and ideas that are organized according to how they move and interact, emphasizing the recognition of our own perspective, mode of perception, and place within a dynamic, constantly moving interface. Multiple ocean transformations are perceived and explored on many levels and in many different ways (ocean literacy, wild swimming, ocean paddling, freediving, sailing residence program, workshops, writing etc.) each mobilizing specific knowledge and referring to different conceptual frameworks, different imaginations, tools, and means. We explore how diverse the representational practices that make up the world are, and we seek to deepen these further.
Our interest is attracted by porosity – the permeable boundary between land and water. Ocean transformations are partly seen, listened to, felt, understood, interpreted and questioned. Certain kinds of media, in relation to the aquatic environment, allow us to co-create communities and shape identities that we may never have had the chance to touch. Working together, we strive to develop tools and ways of cognition that are available and open to the widest possible range of co-creators. One of the requirements for ocean cognition and study, therefore, is to pay increased attention not only to the specifics of the ocean itself, but also to the particular observer/perceiver that interacts with the oceans, or with other marine-aquatic environments.
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