Designing Ocean Futures Literacies: Reimagining the shoreline cleanup as a tool for ‘amphibious thinking’

In an era where data proliferation often substitutes for genuine understanding, this workshop challenges participants to explore alternative modes of environmental engagement beyond traditional knowledge acquisition. We invite participants to question: How does knowing something truly catalyze change? And more critically, how might we move beyond the paradigm of data-driven knowledge to embrace more nuanced, collective approaches to environmental stewardship? Drawing from our ongoing research on Community Ocean Futures: Activating Data for Eco-social Change, in Vancouver, Canada, this workshop introduces participatory methods for engaging with marine environments and ocean conservation. Our approach deliberately moves away from conventional citizen science initiatives that prioritize data collection and quantification, instead emphasizing what we term "amphibious thinking": a mode of engagement that embraces precarity, multiplicity, and collective imagination.