LIVING IN SYMBIOSIS
WITH & ON THE OCEANS
Small island territories account for more than a third of the total area of all world's marine EEZs in the world and less than 2% of the world's population. Particularly threatened by the consequences of climate change, these territories must invent sustainable, viable solutions to adapt and even thrive. We model and experiment biophilic, ecosystem-based and viable marine solutions to transform climate change into multiple opportunities for their future generations and local biodiversity :
the Smart Offshore Ecosystems.
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A SOLUTION TO FACE
GLOBAL CHANGE
Working in harmony with the seas and their biodiversity to meet the world's future challenges
A PIONEER INTERDISCIPLINARY EXPERIMENTAL PROJECT
A riskless and iterative research-action programme to anticipate a biophilic seas' anthropization
A NON-PROFIT
ORGANIZATION
Serving the general interest of
small developing island territories
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SMART OFFSHORE ECOSYSTEMS
In the medium term, our world will have to face unprecedented environmental and societal challenges: climate change, food and energy crises, increasing scarcity of resources, demographic, geopolitical and migratory changes. Gradually, mankind will be looking to the sea for solutions to adapt to these changes, and in response to the global demand for essential resources and economic stability. By 2050, there will be a nine-fold increase in demand for ocean space for aquaculture and energy production (DNV). The ocean will become an increasingly dense and coveted workspace.
In the long term, we think that people will settle and live on the ocean to work, close to the increasingly saturated coasts, then progressively further out to sea. For reasons of comfort, impact or productivity, going ashore every day will no longer be a viable option. Consequently, they will gradually have to learn to live and thrive at sea within new forms of multi-use integrated offshore sustainable and desirable habitat. This will mark new Human-Sea relationship and dependency.
How can we anticipate the oceans' anthropization and ensure that it serves all living beings on Earth?
To meet these challenges, The Indigo Civilization advocates the study, operational experimentation and long-term optimization of the concept of Smart Offshore Ecosystems.
Gradually, they will bring together small communities within floating, multi-use maritime infrastructures that are non-invasive, modular and mobile, autonomous and generative, like artificial reefs. Ports of the future, research stations, economic hubs and reinvented places to live, Smart Offshore Ecosystems will become all these things at once, and will prove an opportunity to facilitate the sustainable deployment of a positive impact circular blue economy: marine energies, integrated multitrophic aquaculture, green logistics, eco-tourism, biotechnologies, surveillance of MPAs...
Integrated into their environment and capable of relieving pressure on coasts or lagoons without altering the local marine ecosystem, Smart Offshore Ecosystems will be a desirable long-term adaptation solution for maritime territories particularly threatened by the consequences of climate change, such as sea level rise.
To better understand our circular philosophy, discover the example of our use case in Polynesia.



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