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Floating

This project investigates how reflection on everyday life can evoke emotions and responses to flooding that may occur in the near future.
Climate CrisisAwarenessClimate ChangeFictions

In 2050, the objects were found at the bottom of the River Thames after a series of floods happened in London - they had lived, they had belonged to someone and they have a story to tell. 

Floating is a combination of a display of mud-larking objects from River Thames (animal bones, beer bottle caps, broken parts of pottery, blister packs of pills etc.), and a video “Trailer” which tells the short fictional stories behind the objects. The abstract footage reflects on everyday life, technology, and legacy that could be carried away by flooding in the near future. It is reported that the number of people affected by flooding is increasing world wide - many of us are destined to experience flooding in our lifetime. The audience is invited to imagine different stories behind the objects, remind yourself what you cherish today and consider how we can adapt to the change we are facing.

Pandy Covell

Mudlarking

To find a trace of everyday life objects that have been carried away into the river, we took a trip to the river shore of the Thames in Battersea. As we found the items, we started imagining the stories of their owners or the moments that they lived through.

Mud-larking Objects
The Thames
River Shore
Tire
Sole
Cleaning

Trailer

By creating fictional stories based on objects found at the shore of the Thames, we illustrated our daily lives, technology, and the legacy of the objects that could be washed away by flooding in the near future, which is intended to invite the audience to reflect on what we cherish in the past and the present.

By creating fictional stories based on objects found at the shore of the Thames, we illustrated our daily lives, technology, and the legacy of the objects that could be washed away by flooding in the near future, which is intended to invite the audience to reflect on what we cherish in the past and the present.

Exhibitions

We had small exhibitions in multiple locations, White City and Kensington, to reach out to more people in the college, and to add a sense of collecting/finding the items and the stories.


Exhibition at White City
Exhibition at White City
A Person Drawing on Feedback Book
Exhibition at Kensington
Mudlarking Objects
A Person Drawing on Feedback Book
Mudlarking Objects
Feedback Book

Our Core Spirit

With our diverse backgrounds, we raise awareness of an urgent matter related to climate change that many people recognise as a global issue but don't think of as a local issue. Our concept is to explore ways to face them, not by proposing another new technology that consumes even more resources, but by proposing a new way of confronting the issue with what we had in the past or what we have now.

Team Photo