When I read about this assembly of plastic garbage, I was inevitably reminded of stories out of the saga "Erik the Red" or the Irish Legend of Saint Brendan. In other words, it has everything for being a modern myth, a contemporary fairy tale: A gigantic new island...
As this documentary from German TV from 2022 clearly shows, designing floating cities is one thing, wanting to live there is quite another. I guess instinctively we all prefer "stability over floating flexibility", as director Kristin Siebert says, land over sea,...
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.
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...
This is a beautiful poem by CRAIG SANTOS PEREZ, a coentemporary writer from the Pacific island of Guam. The typeset is quite impressive and transforms the words into a visual art piece as well as a poem. I won't be able to reproduce it here, so I'll just quote one...