Les universités partenaires
What motivates us
By creating a nomad sailing laboratory in the field of Humanities and Social Sciences, the sailing-researchers of The HumaniSea Challenge follow their very own philosophy...
The Sea often brings us back to our condition of "man in motion".
Asking questions on issues, linked to the Sea, that the evolution of humankind raises, implies to look for a better understanding of the reasons pushing men to walk away from a solid ground and experience the immensity of the oceans. Why men first decided to build a ship? How men managed to explore and to compete for resources of a blue world that have long been invisible to them? Will men be able to listen what seas and oceans continue to whisper?
The movement of men and women on the seas appears as a long story in which each chapter reminds us that many things escape from human understanding. To explore these chapters requires confronting ourselves to the unique setting of seas and oceans, and to meet and debate with the human beings which never stop to be the main protagonists of such chapters.
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Here is then the program of our expeditions!
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In the eyes of men looking for adventure and discovery, the sea is first of all an insurmountable desert of water. As Ulysse in its own odyssey, men will nevertheless overcome this precious and colourfull abyss. As a "man in motion", they will progressively explore each segment of the earth. But despite inventions and technological improvements, the sea always triumphs over men.
"THE SEA, AN OBSTACLE"
What role plays oceans in the largest human migrations? This is the question that will guide us along our first expedition: the Mediterranean Expedition.
Men, still in motion, is always looking to be the first one to place the flag of its own group at the top of its discoveries. Islands testify such conquests. From Christophe Colomb and the period of first discoveries, the conquests of such lands surrounding by water appear as the expression of human territorial expansion.
Although largely liberated from human domination, oceans do not escape to this hunger of territorial expansion. Human territory, redraw each day, continue to stretch across oceans witnessing the growing human appetite. To this day, and worldwide, men fight for the conquest of oceans.
"THE SEA, A TERRITORY"
Comment l'utilisation et l'appropriation des îles continuent-elles aujourd'hui de définir les contours d'enjeux diplomatiques qui modifient la face du monde ? Les espaces sans souveraineté sont-ils voués à progressivement disparaitre de la carte des Mers du globe ? Ce sont des questions qui mériteraient très certainement l'attention des navigateurs-chercheurs de The HumaniSea Challenge.
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At the outer limit of the known world, on the ice-covered seas, humankind, eager to discover, continue his journey. These long forgotten areas became one of the keys to understand our past and to anticipate our future. Scientific expeditions followed one another in order to obtain a better understanding of the resources and limits of the Earth.
"TEH SEA, AN INDICATOR"
How does the discovery of the Earth's poles become a source of responses to ones of the main issues of humankind? Will the INCROYABLE, and its steel hull, be ready for an exploration of the Earth's poles?
Seas never stop to question humankind.
Nothing will be banned from an exploration by our sailing boat. Seas as obstacles, Seas as territories, Seas as an indicator of our future... What about you, which kind of questions you would like to ask to our oceans? Please contact us and we will maybe have the chance to organise together our next expedition!
HUMANISEA
