To answer the never-tiring desire for more space for residential buildings along the coasts - nearly 50% of the industrialized world now lives within a kilometer of the coast - floating structures are repeatedly discussed in urbanization discourse. So called VLFS,...
The bronze statue in the center depicts Mazu or Matsu, the chinese sea goddess, who is particularly popular in Taiwan and Chinese communities outside of mainland China. This monument is at Chengshan Peak (成山头 Chéngshāntóu), in the harbur city Weihai on the Chinese...
German born and UK based visual artist Mariele Neudecker creates aquarium installations of forests, houses or vessels since the late 1990's. Her so called "tank works" are three dimensional landscapes that evoque German romanticism, scientific artefacts as well as the...
In japanese culture, disasters are commonly interpreted as a call and chance for renewal. The then governor of Tokyo Shintaro Ishihara published a statement only two days after the Tsunami of March 2011 calling "the disaster a punishment from heaven because Japanese...
A project of speculative mapping and audio art about sea level rise in the Mediterranean: Link
To counter the global sea level rise, several initiatives have formed to block seas off from the global water flow. The idea behind it: If you control the global water flow, you could control the sea level locally without having to tackle the problem globally. Of...
In the final episode of the Sci Fi series "Stargate Atlantis" the city vessel Atlantis eventually lands in the San Francisco bay. Atlantis here is a city that can both fly in outerspace and float on water. This is the city plan according to one Stargate Wiki:
Atlantis in Dubai
In Kim Stanley Robinson's novel "New York 2140" the flooded New York has all the big city charm and dazzle and fascination it ever had: "From here, the flooded Lower Manhatten lies at their feet like a Super-Venice, awe-inspiring, water-glistening, grand. Their city."...
Artist Carole Alden led the design and creation of this 30-foot floating sculpture, working primarily with salvaged materials. The sculpture swam in the Bayou St. John in New Orleans in August 2019 and is now on display at The Green Project. Find out more here. A...
