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Could the combination of tomatoes, sea cucumbers, and AI be the glocal recipe for sustainable urban development systems? In this text, we review some of the implications of oceanic expansion, proposing an experiment to extract these and other conclusions that may help us realize its importance and the role of architects and urban designers in it. This research assumes that the coastline is fictitious, just like the boundary of cities that usually coincides with it. The city is part of the marine ecosystem and sprawls over it, primarily for productive purposes. Productivity models have shaped our cities since the beginning of civilization; thus, we must strive to understand the relationship between cities and the sea to respond to the new eco-social interactions and urban challenges arising from it. Urban and marine ecosystems constitute a single metabolism; therefore, circular models should consider both. This article conceptualizes a Causal Loop Diagram for the cultivation of marine tomatoes circularly between the two environments. Its performance is being quantified using Systems Dynamic Models. Preliminary results show that this conceptual approach could lead to the viability of crucial unsustainable production systems, defining regenerative models and introducing new perspectives for hydraulic urbanism for the post-Anthropocene era.

ISBN

978-84-120885-9-5

Publication Date

2025

First Page

174

Last Page

192

Publisher

Institut d’Arquitectura Avançada de Catalunya

City

Barcelona

Keywords

Ecosystem Design; Circular Systems; Sustainable Diet; Regenerative Marine Agriculture; Ocean Sprawl.

Language

eng

Rights

open access

Comments

Responsive Cities 2025. Design Matter(s) for Decarbonization, editado por el Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), recoge las contribuciones presentadas en la edición 2025 del congreso internacional Responsive Cities, celebrado en Barcelona los días 25 y 26 de febrero de 2025

Tomatoes, sea cucumbers, and AI. Conceptualizing a Casual Loop Diagram for Assessing Challenges and Opportunities of the Urban Ocean

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