Programe

Infrastructure

About

This piece of work explores from a cynical standpoint how the western world may save itself from global warming and the rise of sea levels by applying these anchored notions. The African continent being less subject to sea rises than Europe, is physically, ideologically and symbolically appropriated by Europe in an attempt by the latter to save itself – and, hence, to save mankind from its own errors. The materialized border becomes both a barrier, preserving the interior from the exterior, as well as an inhabited frontier, relocating 500 million Europeans along the reinforced African coastline.

The proposal aims at questioning Western-centric points of view when dealing with global environmental and social issues, and the inevitable neo-colonialist attitudes that follow. Its scope is not limited to Africa, but may be expanded to the global south as well as to the labouring classes within Western countries themselves. It also questions the reliance on technology and capital in resolving crisis, and mankind’s obsolete dependence on the barrier as a form of preservation.

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Typology

Various

Status

Unbuilt

Year of conception

2015

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