The new blue: Built-up seascapes create new maritime relations

The new blue: Built-up seascapes create new maritime relations

Four representatives of the research programme, Mistra Co-Creating Better Blue, discuss maritime innovation in the context of a dawning new era for human presence and activities at sea. We humans are builders. The most densely populated and most intensively exploited areas are built-up landscapes, where wood, stone, concrete and steel constructions dominate. But the situation has been fundamentally different at sea for centuries and millennia. Here, human activities and presence have been almost exclusively associated with boats and ships, which, over time, have grown in size and capacity in line with our technological development.