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To Float or Not to Float

A long paper section hung in waves from the ceiling of a white exhibition room — The five-metre section in the exhibition.

2024

River, flood and the future city
Stream Dream River Camp, Stuttgart. With Ida Slettvold, Julie Finstad, Romero Ratti, Estella Staadir and Aart Schillings

What if Stuttgart adapted to its river instead of trying to control it? Made at a summer camp about the Neckar, the project imagines a flooded city that learns to live with both high and low water. It ended as an exhibition of posters, a film and a five-metre section hung like a wave through the room. I worked on the section.

Close view of the curling paper section, drawn river levels and stained paper — Close up.

Four students kneeling on the floor around the long paper section, drawing and cutting — Making the section.

Part of the section from above: collaged drawings, water lines and cut-outs on stained paper — Section, detail.

Another part of the section from above, with drawn structures and paper cut-outs — Section, detail.