What is land is a question that produces three objects.
Land is reachable and tangible, it provides the apparent terms of stability, production and reproduction. Land contains the place upon which space is created, it is humanity's primary construction site. It is familiar through its extensive representation and the idea of capability, "i am able to go there, somewhere that is not nowhere." The evident boundary of the land is the level zero, that of the sea. An opposition similar to that of an ambivalent father and a beloving mother lies along the coastlines. The island in that case is the special child. The island is a piece of land surrounded by sea or in more abstract terms it is any object placed inside the endless extension of a uniform element. It is a remote landmark inside a homogenous scenery creating once more the sense of place, distance and scale through an elemental differentiation.
The sea is open, it always poses the challenge of its own vastness. The terrestrial terms that have been cast upon it, create borders on the liquid mass. The imaginary lines of the land extend to the sea thus creating sets of zones, borders and areas that are non the less hard to define or physically understand.
Our interest is situated in the Mediterranean sea, which is named under a sense of hetero-determination, signified by its terrestrial boundaries. The distinctiveness of this sea does not only come from its size and its landlocked type, but also from the fact that it is an island between the territories of culture. It provides the elemental means for a compact network of movement, mobility, trade, conflict while being a zone of crisis containing overlapping borders. This sea is the site on which we apply an approach of a new archipelago that is established by artificial floating islands. It is an infrastructural network which supports and enhances the already existing networks of the mediterranean sea seeking also to produce new ones, by being able to support life and provide the basic terrestrial means for survival, while floating on regions that are considered as international waters.
The islands become continental, by their relations and connection with the land but also with one another. The new mediterranean archipelago creates a series of new places of significance in a wider scale which is fully charted and identified. The difference of each place will emerge through time according to its position on the map. The further interconnection between the islands will provide new factors of identification, characteristics will be continuously transfer from one another and the wanderer of the mediterranean sea will be the protagonist of this process, meaning any subject which floats on it, desires to get there or happens to be there. The islands float in a mediatory space, far away from the land, forming a new one which will act as a node. The islands get out of their context, having nothing to stand against, they stand remote inside a dense network as landmarks in the vacant unity of the sea producing a desire that will make every island something more than an infrastructure, a land with a new mythology created by the unexpected encounters that it produces by default.