Engineering
Heracles, the first hydraulic engineer
According to historian Terje Tvedt the Greek god and hero Heracles derived from a much older Egyptian hero of similar name. The now submerged city Heracleion off the coast of the Nile delta was named after the god and Heracles plays a central role in the ancient...
Raising a City
There are only a limited number of options to deal with SLR and land subsidence. One of the more obvious ones is raising buildings. There is of course limitations as to how many buildings you can possibly raise to save the habitats from inundation. Raising a whole...
Lighthouse Retreat
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...
Conshelf or the Precontinent Project
Continental Shelf Station was an attempt at creating an environment in which people could live and work on the sea floor. Precontinent has been used to describe the set of projects to build an underwater "village" carried out by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his team in...
Neromanna – A film about a sunken community
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...
Artificial Intelligence and false hopes: Asunder
"Asunder is an art project that responds to a growing interest in the application of AI to critical environmental challenges. [...] It's a fictional 'environmental manager' that proposes and simulates future alterations to the planet to keep it safely within planetary...
Modified marine ecosystems
https://youtu.be/ohE6ZFPr2W8 Climate adaptation for coastal cities will require altered relationships to the sea and the marine ecosystem. future coastal city communities will live closer to and closer with the sea and it's inhabitants. This will most likely require...
Venice flooding from a duck’s perspective
In the Donald Duck story "Zio Paperone e la deriva dei monumenti" by Italian comic artists Giorgio Pezzin and Giorgio Cavazzano, Uncle Scrooge together with Donald and his nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie save the historic buildings of Venice from rising floods....
The new Alexandria skyline
In an effort to protect the city of Alexandria against coastal erosion, the local government plants thousands of concrete tetrapods along the remaining beach. This creates a bizarre, futuristic urban landscpae, unlike anything we know: The images are from a German TV...