La Méditerranée au milieu de la mer.

In an era where urban supremacy and its doctrine have erected metropolises as the world’s organizing system, the Mediterranean Sea stands as a dizzying space. This sea, where one of the most potent concepts of urbanity and city life was birthed, serves dual roles - a site for leisurely bathing and, tragically, a site of death. It’s a blazing frontier separating the north from the south. What renders the Mediterranean Sea paradoxical - in the most direct sense, contradicting the doctrine - is its transformation from an ancestral physical boundary to a vital link between the oceans, an indispensable component in the world’s new ‘circularity’. We’ve transitioned from the ancient paradigm of an inland sea - a unified, domesticated basin of life - to an open, interconnected maritime space, fully integrated into the global system. The Mediterranean is a vast expanse, extensively traversed and transformed by humans. This article delves into the paradoxes surfacing from the Mediterranean Sea’s condition, viewing them as symbols of a new planetary state. It envisions a new era of urbanism that exists ‘in and by’ the water.