i am ocean - arturo pelayo - h+ summit @ harvard

HUMANITY+ SUMMIT | HARVARD UNIVERSITY

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What I’ll share with you today:

1. Concept of Ocean University.2. How we plan to do it.3. Where we go from here.

let’s start with a metaphor

Adinkra symbol of the Akan people of Ghana.

‘learn from the past’

It symbolizes one taking from the past what is good and bringing it into the present in order to make positive progress through the benevolent use of knowledge.

-wikipedia

This is what we do.

Researchers, Designers, Ethnographers, Anthropologists...

It symbolizes one taking from the past what is good and bringing it into the present in order to make positive progress through the benevolent use of knowledge.

-wikipedia

It symbolizes one taking from the past what is good and bringing it into the present in order to make positive progress through the benevolent use of knowledge.

-wikipedia

It symbolizes one taking from the past what is good and bringing it into the present in order to make positive progress through the benevolent use of knowledge.

-wikipedia

1

Concept

Ocean Universityknowledge is everywhere

we are a unique networking environment.

we engage designers, activists, thought leaders and students onboard a dedicated cruise ship.

we are an open platform for experiential learning and design thinking at its best.

we interconnect people, discover, shape and spread knowledge from everywhere to everyone

2

Plan

2010

OceanAlliance

Ocean Alliance:

Design Firms, Digital Agencies, like-minded Organizations, individuals, NPOs, NGOs & Academia.

Ocean Alliance:

Onboard space to develop design, research & development work between ports of call.

Intern-at-Sea opportunities for students.

so far...

UNIFIED FIELD BANK™ how about you here?

2011

Ocean Studios

Ocean Studios:

Retrofitted shipping containers spread all over the world at future ports of call and communities of impact.

Ocean Studios:

Telemedicine Clinics Classrooms

Scientific Outposts Data centers

Ocean Studios:

Aquaponic gardens

Creative outlets for youth

Ocean Studios:

Locally staffed. Deliver services from day one. With or without ship in 2012.

3

Go

2012

2012

201020th April

Gulf of Mexico

Many, rightly so, want BP to own

its mess.

Few, however, don’t feel they are

the Ocean.

out of sight,out of mind

“

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plastic gyres

heavy metals in the poles

gigantic icebergs ...

island nations disappearing

before our eyes...

out of sight,out of mind

“

”

If sharing is caring...

then

being is believing.

not to think you are...

but to know you are.

We cannot NOT wait.

We cannot NOT change the world.

a platform for public benefit.

storytelling

ocean education

resource sharing

IamOcean, Who will you be ?

& A