Architectures of the Sea: Atlantic Ocean (SEALabHaus Transnational Scientific Congress on Atlantic Maritime Heritage and Blue Tourism) proposes shifting the focus of architectural and built environment history from land to the Atlantic Area's sea, understood as a transboundary geographical space that is historically interconnected and culturally plural.

The congress invites researchers, professionals and collectives to consider the Atlantic as a built terrritory. The Atlantic coastline encompasses intensely transformed territories, expanding port and energy infrastructure, and maritime heritage (both industrial and vernacular), which is linked to maritime trade and tourism and leisure dynamics. These factors are reconfiguring the landscape, the economy, and the daily lives of coastal communities. Rather than viewing the sea as a boundary, we propose approaching it as an architectural and cultural space traversed by historical and contemporary networks and as a critical interface between ecology, economy and society.

The congress recognises that the sea is not a void of architecture, but rather a constructed territory shaped by: infrastructure such as submarine cables, dikes, offshore wind farms and fish farms; mobility and trade networks such as coastal and transatlantic shipping routes; maritime architecture and cultural landscapes such as ports, fishing neighbourhoods, shipyards, boatyards, canneries and fishing and storage systems; and the social and cultural processes that shape coastal communities, such as urban participation practices and governance models. Architectures of the Sea: Atlantic Ocean also considers the coastline to be pivotal in connecting ocean dynamics, urban changes, tourism strategies and climate vulnerabilities.