In her book published in 2013, Sri Lanka born academic and writer Deraniyagala describes her experiences as a flood victim in the Tsunami of 2004 in the Indian Ocean, refered to in English speaking countries as "Boxing Day Tsunami". Much of the book is devoted to her...
These images are from an exhibition at the Japanese Palais in Dresden in 2023. The installation is by the Czech artist group Forman Brothers. The look is very reminiscent of Japanese art. The design here uses only the wave crests to signify water, the ground is left...
In 2019 this 120 year old lighthouse on the Denish coast had to be moved 70 meters back The 23-meter-high lighthouse is located on a cliff about 60 meters above sea level. When it was put into operation, the cliff was about 200 meters from the sea. In the end, it was...
Mural in Bremen Neustadt advertising the local beer company Beck's. The building and the brewery are directly adjacent to a dike that is in urgent need of renovation and elevation. A building at Hongkongstraße in Hamburg's harbour district adorned with japanese style...
What happens to cities when they become half or seasonally flooded? Kim Stanley Robinson draws a picture of an intertidal New York of the future, where New Yorkers still live in high rises and move across the city on boats and bridges. But there is also a jurisdical...
Like no other movie Roland Emmerich's blockbuster made extensive use of the iconology of cities, and most of all of the most iconic of them all: New York! In a very clever way, the advertisment company also adopted this strategy to various localities, asking the local...
Flooding in Guangxi. Images provided by Damien Manspeaker (@too_much_yogurt/Instagram)
https://player.vimeo.com/video/328744654?h=dbce188316 Athens based artist collective Latent Community produced this wonderful film about the story of Kallio in Fokida, Greece, a village that was expropriated in 1969 and was covered in 1981 by the waters of the...
Atafona is a Brazilian town of 6,000 people, 200 miles up the coast from the famed beaches of Rio’s Copacabana and Ipanema. "The sea devoured [Atafona's] historic lighthouse, bars, nightclubs, markets, a four-story hotel, a gas station for boats, a school, sumptuous...
My favorite idea from the DC Aquaman movie (2018) is merely a small detail. When the Aquarians start to fight back against us, the people above sea level, one of their first maneuvers is throwing the human garbage back on land. That includes of course submarines. Here...
