Oerol: Project Foresea

Program

Temporary landscape art installation

Location

Terschelling, Netherlands

Date

February - July 2016

Project type

Academic group project. 12 students of architecture, landscape, urbanism

Brief

For the Oerol festival 2016, our team of 12 students designed and built a high-concept installation to increase public awareness on sea-level rise. In March 2016, Nature predicted that sea levels could rise as much as 6m by 2200. Our visual, spatial and personal experience questioned what the consequences might be.

Provocative statements about climate change were placed on 57 steel masts, each 6m high, and visitors were asked how much they agreed or disagreed. They answered by placing a 'waterline' between 2 statements, so the project grew into a large-scale interactive infographic, casting a striking image against the empty sea. Our installation was a great success, visited by 6000+ people in 10 days.

During the project I built this website to document the process.