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...
In a theme park near Tampa, FL, you can see mermaids perform for you live since 1947. https://youtu.be/dUHPxsP8dzw The producers write on their website: "What do you get when you combine underwater fantasy with SCUBA technology? Why, you get mermaids, gliding and...
In an essay in which cultural historian Helen M. Rozwadowski traces the intellectual climate surrounding Jacques Cousteaus aquatic utopias, which he managed to manifest temporarily in his Conshelf-experiments (see my post here), she concludes: "The story of 'Homo...
Lecture by US journalist Jeff Goodell on his book "The Water Will Come" with alot of examples and images around rising sea level and sinking cities. From 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcPbLJEDy50 I find this to be one of the really useful and smart talks on...
Most ancient cultures share the idea of creation out of water. Be it a cosmic ocean, primordial waters or a more abstract idea of fluid, amorphous chaos. But why is that so? How come that so many creation myths that were formed long before any scientific knowledge...
In this speech, Colette Pichon Battle, formerly of Gulf South Center for Law and Policy and now working with Taproot Earth, explains why in cimate change adaptation the local knowledge of "frontline communities" is important and why and how the local initiativves need...
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...
The british movie "Captain Nemo and the underwater city" by James Hill picks up the themes and main character Captain Nemo from Jules Verne's famous novel and the sucessfull 1954 Disney movie on the same material. While the earlier US-movie develops further the theme...
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...
