Within Aquatic Life. Beyond the Anthropogenic Maritorium Prospect

 Alban Mannisi PhD. Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore
 Carlos Tapia PhD. Higher Technical School of Architecture ; University of Seville, Spain
 Johana Herrera Arango PhD. School of Environmental and Rural Studies, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá
 Witiya Pittungnapoo PhD. Faculty of Architecture, Art and Design, Naresuan University, Thailand
 Shota Saito M. L. Arch. Landscape Architecture Dpt. ; McGregor Coxall, Australia

Enquiries into non-anthropogenic cultural landscapes, such as marine environments, reveal unsuspected dynamics due to the resurgence of ecosophies that are alien to the globalised economy and territorialisation as a basis for appropriation and subsequent indiscriminate exploitation. Disturbed by the wanderings of geo-engineering, several regions of the world have recently touched on key arguments with points in common that could revitalise non-human biospheres and, in them, human ones. When considering maritime dynamics, the ocean must be seen as an entity. Following the ever-inspiring historical literatures of Fernand Braudel and expanding on the "mediterraneity" he formulated, we would be testing another concept involving a change in mentality of governmentality : “maritoriums”, a conceptualisation from 1970s Chilean architecture. Based on case studies, we will discuss significant examples in the Mediterranean, the Caribbean and Asian oceans and rivers that contribute to the current debate on the seas as inhabited spaces, as fragile and revealing aquatic ecosystems.