The Lisbon Triennial Visionaries exhibition, curated by Anastassia Smirnova at the Culturgest Cultural Centre for the provided a full room for our team to develop an immersive experience called Artificial Terra exploring marine spatial planning as a new design discipline.

As demands on marine environments grow, this work reimagines marine infrastructures as moving beyond single-purpose engineering to systems that balance resource extraction with protection. By integrating design, science and nature-inclusive strategies, we develop multifunctional landscapes that support both human needs and ecosystem health.

The surrounding installation mapped speculative but tangible interventions, including:

• Repurposed Infrastructure – Transforming existing structures into multi-use hubs that integrate energy production with ecological benefits.

• Ports – Rethinking ports as green, adaptive interfaces between land and sea.

• Coastal Planning & Protection – Designing resilient shorelines that merge climate adaptation with nature-inclusive development.

• Manufactured Islands – Creating hybrid landscapes for habitat regeneration, sustainable industries and climate innovation.

Artificial Terra shares a vision that shifts away from extractive, mono-functional development towards a symbiosis with natural processes. It offers a glimpse into a future where infrastructures are designed to be harmonious living systems.