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It is in Japan, an archipelago country turned by necessity towards the sea, where the observation of nature is an art as much as a deep aspiration, that the ideas on the development of the seabed have been developed.

It was around the 17th century, during the reign of Emperor Jôo, that fish houses, reefs and artificial fishing habitats were built near the coast. It is within this culture of Sato-umi, literally “the sea where people live”, and this vision of a fertile and rich sea for those who know how to change it that the Japanese idea of eco-design was developed (Yanagi 2012).

The very root of the word œkodesign (oikos, from the Greek word for home or house) is completely in line with that of Sato-umi, based around the notions conveyed by ecumene¹⁴ and ecology. We can also find in this vision the inspiration developed by Rosenzweig and Michael (2003) for the ecology of reconciliation, where biodiversity and human development are closely intertwined in our “common home”.