Over three days, the workshop centered on collaborative practices of designing and testing remote, underwater, and floating prototypes. Sensor arrays, sound-recording and emitting devices, inverted vessels, and porous surfaces were deployed in the water to breathe, listen, monitor, observe, and support emerging habitats. In treating the bay as both research site and collaborator, we opened spaces where artistic and design research methods, marine biology techniques, and situated interventions could meet and inform each other.

The prototypes not only invited the attention of marine organisms but also stirred the curiosity of human counterparts—local divers, swimmers, and other coastal visitors—who engaged with the work and its questions.

The outcomes of this workshop are documented and will be further developed as part of an ongoing inquiry into interspecies encounters, collaborative design, and ecological attunement.