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The Oceanic Unknown
The ocean is the closest far-away place. More than 80 percent has never been mapped or even seen by humans.
Visionaries have often thought about how we might venture into this realm. Their ideas have developed in parallel with the exploration of outer space.
In the 1960s designer Russell Heston imagined building a jazz lounge on the ocean floor. Today, with rising sea levels threatening the world's largest cities, designers are considering how humans can adapt to a water world. The floating community OCEANIX City presents one possible way forward. If realized, it will allow 10,000 people to live on the ocean surface, without harming marine ecosystems.
Jeffrey Veregge's forthcoming graphic novel, The Sovereign, also explores a future water world. It reimagines the Jules Verne novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in combination with Indigenous storytelling traditions of the Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe in Washington state. |