The Arts, the Sciences, and the Seafloor

The aim of this Brigstow Ideas Exchange Workshop is to bring together scientists with arts scholars and practitioners in order to think about human relations with the seafloor, a site that remains in many respects mysterious and yet, as we are increasingly becoming aware, a crucial driver of climate. How might art-forms or media (for example, sound recording or photography) or specific humanities methodologies (for example, scholarship in the field of blue humanities and animal studies) inform a scientific sense of what it means to ‘know’ the seafloor? And, at a time when concerted efforts are being made finally to map it fully (through the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project), how might these overlapping ways of knowing the seafloor help us to live better with it?