Grant #208382 to Arising Quo

By centring the Orcas we’ll engage in the participatory research of bioregional needs in our locality around the Strait of Gibraltar.

This endangered sub-species of killer whale are involved in a popular human-wildlife conflict — The Orcas have learned to attack sailing vessels and nobody knows for sure why.

We’ll use this starting point of ecological speculation to engage together as multi-cultural stakeholders, situated across marine and maritime interactions, through a series of online and in-person gatherings over summer 2024.

By working with our collective needs and desires for cooperative water governance integrating science, policy, and culture, we’ll imagine a coastal future that supports our shared survival as earthlings.

Publishing our synthesised dialogue and systemic designs to seed future collectivity and activism around water use policy in the strait. We'll make small steps in just transition towards exciting visions of human-cetacean, coastal cooperation, that could reduce our chance of mutual extinction.