Navigating the Blue Economy: An interview with Yves Zieba
Yves Zieba, CEO of Synthezia, discusses with Nicole Loeser, director of IFAI Berlin his passion for the blue economy – IFAI Talks podcast Read More …
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Announcing our Podcast Series : IFAI Talks
IFAI TALKS, the new podcast series by the Institute for Art and Innovation, explores the critical intersection of sustainability and interdisciplinary collaboration. Read More …
UN Water Conference 2023 – March 22-24
Right now, we are seriously off-track to meet Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6: water and sanitation for all by 2030. The latest data show that governments must work on average four times faster to meet this Goal on time. Dysfunction Read More …
Entrepreneurship Summit 2022
On last weekend, 22-23 October 2022, we had the pleasure of being part of the Entrepreneurship Summit. It is organized by the Entrepreneurship Foundation and is one of the most important entrepreneurial events in Germany. More than 100 experts from various fields Read More …
Ocean Future Lab at Berlin International University
From October 14-16, 2022, the Berlin International University of Applied Sciences organized the „Sustainable Systems for the Future – Practical Approaches for Design and Business” conference. This alumni event brought together former international students of the Faculty of Business as Read More …
Ocean Future Lab Hackathon Recap
We are so proud of our participants at the Ocean Future Lab Hackathon and what they have achieved last week during exciting 48 hours. On Sept 21 we kicked off with a welcome round. Almost 130 people joined our Slack Read More …
Ocean Future Lab at Futurium Berlin
On August 26, the Ocean Future Lab was hosted by the Futurium in Berlin. The Futurium is a project initiative of scientific institutions and networks of several enterprises and foundations as well as the German Federal Government in Berlin. Read More …
Ocean Future Lab at Maritime Museum Bremerhaven
On Saturday, June 25, 2022, the German Maritime Museum Bremerhaven invited to co-creation and dialogue around the complex question “How do we want to live with the seas?”. The day began with a tour of the special exhibitions in the Read More …
Ocean Future Lab at Oceanographic Museum Stralsund
On Tuesday, May 31, 2022, the Ocean Future Lab at the Ozeaneum – German Oceanographic Museum Stralsund invited to co-creation and dialogue on the controversial topic “How do we want to live with the seas?”. After a guided tour with the Read More …
Finalists of the Ocean Future Lab selected!
We are happy to announce the 5 open call finalists of the Ocean Future Lab and 2 winners of the public voting! After discussing all submissions, the jury selected the most visionary ideas concerning the future of the oceans. The Read More …
Ocean Future Lab – Open Call for Participation
Changemaker:innen und kreative Köpfe aller Disziplinen sind eingeladen, sich für den ersten Wettbewerb im Rahmen des „Ocean Future Lab“ zu bewerben. Gesucht werden Projekte, die sich mit den Meeren im Kontext des Anthropozäns befassen, d.h. dem menschlichen Einfluss auf die natürliche Umwelt. Read More …
The Universal Sea at EU@SXSW
We’ll showcase our EU co-funded project The Universal Sea that we started in 2017 at the world-renowned festival SXSW in Austin, Texas. Totally in our mindset this year’s festival brings together artists, innovators, and thought-leaders from around the world. Read More …
Perception of Contemporaneity – The Universal Sea at Museum of Contemporary Art, Novi Sad
‘Danube Dialogues’ Festival in collaboration with The Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina are pleased to present the central exhibition of its festival: Perceptions of Contemporaneity – The Universal Sea. Read More …
MOoW presents The Universal Sea in Los Angeles
Made Out of WHAT is a non-profit organization founded to raise awareness about the challenge of industrial and consumer waste by showcasing brilliant, practical solutions from artists and designers around the world. Teaming up with TUS on this special event, they will gather together artists, scientists, environmental leaders and activists from around the world… Read More …
The Universal Sea at 48h Neukölln Festival – Prinzessinnengarten
We are proud to share our missions and visions, and facilitate workshops regarding solutions for the future in a conscious, mindful way in St. Jacobi Park / Urban Gardening Project Prinzessinnengarten Collective Berlin Read More …
The Universal Sea Book has landed! – Book Launch Flashback
The Universal Sea team were excited to finally present the launch of our book: The Universal Sea – The art and innovation guide against the plastic epidemic. The long awaited release was celebrated with a public event on Friday, March Read More …
The Universal Sea Book Launch at Universität der Künste
Save the date – Friday, March 15th, 2019.
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The Universal Sea – Book Launch Programme
Mark your calendars! Come and celebrate with us!
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Our CAMPAIGN – SCREAM FOR CLEAN!
The community behind The Universal Sea is fed up with the plastic epidemic and therefore we have been preparing the campaign ‘Scream for CLEAN’ in order to keep our work up. We need YOU to support us spreading our book: Read More …
The Universal Sea – Abu Dhabi Station
The TUS team travelled to Abu Dhabi in November to present The Universal Sea project and the fishes installation that was created under the guidance of Hungarian artist Gergely Kovach. Together with 12 young artists from Middle-European and Emirati universities Read More …
Flashback: The Universal Sea – Conference on Art and Sustainability, Budapest
On the 5th October 2018, only two weeks into my journey with The Universal Sea, I found myself following this incredible initiative to Budapest to take part in a pioneering creative ‘hackathon’ and attend The Universal Sea – Conference on Read More …
Entrepreneurship Summit Flashback
On the weekend, 6-7 October 2018, we had the pleasure of being part of the Entrepreneurship Summit. It is organized by our project coordinator the Entrepreneurship Foundation and is one of the most important entrepreneurial events in Germany. More than 100 experts Read More …
Mikve Opening
We have been waiting for this moment for quite a while and now the day finally came! We are proud to present an art exhibition at one of the most exciting locations in our Art Moments – The Universal Sea Read More …
Budapest Hackathon throwback
What a great co-creation Hackathon! Everyone sat together for hours and hours, we got creative and in between – we admit it – also a little desperate BUT in the end it was all worth it. Our Hackathon put great Read More …
Our Research Projects
Here at The Universal Sea we are not only working tirelessly against the plastic epidemic in the world’s waterways, but we also conduct independent research projects. The results from these surveys will be included in the Universal Sea guidebook currently Read More …