Inhabited Sea: Essays in Scroll.in

Colonial maps of the coastline, from 'Soak' by Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha.

What futures might we imagine for coastal cities, if we start not with the purifications of urban planning, but with the wet, muddy, everyday practices of humans and ecologies of the Inhabited Sea? More than anything, the open access research of the Inhabited Sea Project seeks to stimulate new imaginaries of urban living. These imaginaries, borne out of practice, insist on different, more just and more dynamic relationships between humans, non-humans and the urban environment that are always, always in the making.