An interdisciplinary symposium on the legal, ecological, and cultural stakes in the ocean. The Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (Columbia GSAPP) is pleased to present Prospecting Ocean by Armin Linke, a multimedia artistic research project that investigates the technocratic entanglement of industry, science, politics, and economics at the frontiers of ocean exploration. The exhibition Prospecting Ocean is accompanied by Frontiers in the Oceanic Anthropocene, a half-day symposium on the legal, ecological, and cultural stakes in the ocean. Bringing together scientists from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, as well as legal experts, activists, and designers, the symposium will instigate a series of interdisciplinary discussions on topics including the law of the sea, global ocean mapping, deep sea mining, emerging policies on biodiversity, environmental rights, and the rights of indigenous communities. PARTICIPANTS Dan Fornari Emeritus Research Scholar, Geology & Geophysics Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Vicki Ferrini Research Scientist, Marine Geology and Geophysics, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University Kristina Gjerde High Seas Policy Advisor, International Union for Conservation fo Nature Global Marine Stefan Helmreich Professor of Anthropology, MIT Stefanie Hessler Director, Kunsthall Trondheim Porter Hoagland Senior Research Specialist, Marine Policy Center, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Andrés Jaque Associate Professor of Professional Practice and Director Advanced Architectural Design program, Columbia GSAPP Armin Linke Artist Mari Margil Associate Director, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund Kate Orff Professor and Director, Urban Design program, Columbia GSAPP William Ryan Special Research Scientist, Marine Geology and Geophysics, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia GSAPP Irene Sunwoo Director of Exhibitions, Columbia GSAPP Sara Tjossem Senior Lecturer, Columbia School of International and Public Affairs Dana Yoerger Senior Scientist, Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Organized by Columbia GSAPP and co-presented by GSAPP Exhibitions and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, the Earth Institute.