This is an areal view of the Capital of the Maledives. The City has outgrown the island space it is built on. A new artificial island is currently under construction and land is constantly added at the shores of the city-island.
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21. Century
The amphibious communities of Bangkok
Three texts, three authors, three different contexts - all describing the amphibious but perilous life style of the inhabitants of Bangkok, the capital of Thailand: In her essay from 2018 on contemporary flood protection in several metropolises across Asia, researcher...
Ho Chi Minh City
This impressive photo of the Vietnamese metropolis in the Mekong Delta was taken by Lizzie Yarina, a researcher from the MIT Urban Crisis Lab and it accompanies her insightful article "You're sea wall won't save you".
Fear of Drowning – Aquaman and the Fate of Atlantis
Last year author Ram V and artist Christian Ward published a new three piece comic book on the DC-superhero Aquaman. (I have commented on the Aquaman movie from the same year here and here.) The story is not really about Atlantis, acording to the DC universe the...
The gradual flood
The movie "Moonfall" from 2022 might be the worst movie ever done by Roland Emmerich, the movie director a Canadian journal aptly described as a "disaster-porn artist". Emmerich has filmed - or rather digitally created - a whole collection of gigantic flood waves over...
A very big shark and an underwater habitat for the rich
The action movie Meg was released in 2018 and did surprisingly well at the box offices, considering that the shark-vs-man plot seems so outdated and overdone. Apparently it was two decades in the making and it feels a bit like it too watching it. Nevertheless, there...
Leaving Planet Terror
The movie by Robert Rodriguez from 2007 is definitely not a climate narrative. Rather "Planet Terror", a true retro flick, picks up a theme popular in the 1970s: anihilation through some mysterious chemical experiment gone havoc. Still I found the closing images...
Retreat to the Metaverse?
The other night a friend told me about the island state Tuvalu creating a second version of itself online. The story had escaped me and when I heard it from him, it sounded reasonable enough. Having read about managed retreat and communities seeking drastic measures...
Time and Tide Bells
Since 2008 artist and bell-maker Marcus Vergette has been developing the multi-site installation series Time and Tide Bells in various coastal spots across the UK. The installations consist of two bells, one upside down on top of the other, set up in tidal zones so...
FloodZone – an ongoing visual research of life in the tidal zone
FloodZone is an ongoing photographic series by Anastasia Samoylova, responding to the environmental changes in coastal cities of South Florida. The project began in Miami in 2016, when Samoylova moved to the area and experience living in a tropical environment for the...