AHRC Digital Seascapes

Digital Seascapes takes a collaborative approach to design new ways for communities to engage with the sea as a public space. A community co-design process will test third-sector organisations using digital technology to engage communities around access to the sea. A key focal point of the project will be to support and develop knowledge exchange and capacity building between three key organisations in the city, that have a common aim to build resilient coastal cities.
The partnership with Plymouth City Council, as custodians of the city and lead on the National Marine Park (NMP), and The Rockpool Project (CIC) will develop a digital citizen science toolkit to be used as part of a wider set of activities to engage young people and to enable them to take action to care for their marine space. It will drive the local community to engage with and care for their coastal environment, positively impacting on the achievement of coastal resilience goals.
The project builds on the creation of the first
UK National Marine Park (NMP)
and the work of the EU Green minds project which has been establishing green and blue governance in the city to develop 'a digital park in the sea'. This partnership will exchange technological knowledge and design skills to collaboratively explore and test new ways for communities to engage with the sea as a common space. The aim is to engage young people in new ways to make coastal areas more accessible to themselves and, more broadly, to create resilient and inclusive coastal communities.