WaterLines: Speculative Design in the Threshold Between Land and Water

Coasts and deltas constitute extraordinary environments built by geological forces in a geological timeframe. They are spaces constantly evolving, altered by the actions of natural and man-made transformation processes. This landscape is dotted with natural and man-made scenes where dynamism and unpredictability are exacerbated by the forces of rising sea levels and climate change. They are simultaneously territories of opportunity to interrogate about the challenges and posibilities for an unpredictable urban and landscape scenario in the climate emergency. Design Studios, conceived as an ongoing series of interconnected themes, explores the implications of living in the threshold between land and water as space altered by the transitory action of water, man-made transformations and unpredictable events exacerbated by climate change. Studio’s briefs are interrogating whether such dynamic and vulnerable environments and spaces can remain inhabited by humans, and if so, how that should occur? What are the models for coastal and delta habitation that can survive and prosper in a disintegrating territory between the unpredictable rivers and ocean, and the unstable land? What are the new urban landscapes and architectures design for a planet exposed to the effects of the climate we are changing? What are the operations that are needed to navigate new coastal and delta scenarios?

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.Teach.2021.31

Volume Editors
Jonathan A. Scelsa & Jørgen Johan Tandberg

ISBN
978-1-944214-38-8