Future Seas is a unique collaboration of over 100 researchers from the University of Tasmania, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research organisation, other institutions and Indigenous representatives from around the world. Future Seas uses a strategic technique called ‘foresighting’ to develop interdisciplinary, evidence-informed plausible scenarios of the future by 2030, for 12 key challenges facing the world’s oceans. The scenarios include what the future would look like if current trends continue, and also what our future could look like if we more effectively used the data and knowledge currently available to us, and pushed as far as possible towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s). We then use ‘back-casting’ (i.e. working backwards from the desirable future) to generate a tangible plan for possible actions to undertake at local, regional and global scales, if society chose to work towards the future more in line with the UNSDG’s. For more information on the project check out futureseas2030.org

‘Full Metal Aquatic’ is an interactive action thriller specially written to showcase Future Seas:

In the year 2030, the Reverie floating platform is the ultimate in offshore luxury: a high-end tourist destination, fish farm and energy source. Without warning, it's been taken down by hijackers. Now, Reverie designer Lara Nguyen is reluctantly pulled out of retirement to help infiltrate the facility she left a decade ago - and to face her own dark secrets.

Full Metal Aquatic is a high-stakes action thriller set in the oceans a decade from now. But crucially, the story takes place in two different futures. Working with researchers from the Future Seas project, writers Jordan Prosser and David Finnigan will tell the story of the Reverie's hijacking in the future we hope to see - and in the future we want to prevent. It is designed to be a light-hearted and creative way to explore what our future could feasibly look like, depending on the actions we take now.

The event will be introduced by Prof Gretta Pecl who will describe the project briefly, followed by the performance, and an interactive game.

PLEASE NOTE: the event is now online. We will email you a zoom link to attend.