Summer school "5 Oceans, 5 Colonies: Sculpting Future Living Architecture On and Below Water"

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  • Sustainable Development
Published on May 7, 2025 – Updated on May 7, 2025
Dates

on the April 30, 2025

July 2025
Location
IMREDD
Illustration générée par IA représentant une colonie océanique futuriste. Les habitats flottants, semblables à des méduses, suggèrent des modes de vie innovants sur et sous l’eau, à travers différents paysages marins imaginaires.
Illustration générée par IA représentant une colonie océanique futuriste. Les habitats flottants, semblables à des méduses, suggèrent des modes de vie innovants sur et sous l’eau, à travers différents paysages marins imaginaires.

This summer, immerse yourself in the design of speculative ocean colonies, exploring artificial intelligence-assisted design tools and systemic biomimicry processes.

Université Côte d'Azur is launching a new Summer School in July 2025, organized by IMREDD and the UX for Smart Life: Home & Mobility Chair. This program (in English) proposes to imagine how humanity could live on and under the oceans, in response to the environmental, urban and climatic challenges of the future.

The Summer School "5 Oceans, 5 Colonies: Sculpting Future Living Architecture On and Below Water" is aimed at an international community of architects, designers, engineers and speculative thinkers - students, Ph.tudents, PhD students, researchers and professionals - eager to explore possible futures through an interdisciplinary approach combining prospective design, emerging technologies and sustainability.

The event is divided into two phases:

  • An online phase(July 6 and 13) consisting of two half-day introductory sessions to AI Kitchen Tools, which will enable participants to produce immersive images, videos and narratives.

  • A face-to-face phase in Nice, from July 21 to 31. Participants will work in international teams to design five imaginary colonies, each anchored in a different ocean, in response to climatic, social and geopolitical challenges.

The program's originality lies in the use of AI as a design and visual storytelling tool. The expected productions will take the form of prototypes, prospective scenarios and visual creations, which will be presented at a public exhibition at the end of the program.

The program is aimed at undergraduates, masters and doctoral students, as well as researchers and professionals wishing to explore possible futures through the prism of design and technology. It is open to all. Mobility grants are available for members of the Ulysseus alliance.