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Modular Multi-Purpose Floating Structures for Space Creation. Inter-modular connector

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Modular Multi-Purpose Floating Structures for Space Creation. Inter-modular connector

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https://ntnuopen.ntnu.no/ntnu-xmlui/bitstream/handle/11250/3054338/WCFS+paper+draft_revision.pdf?sequence=1

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CLIMAVORE: On Tidal Zones
Installation-Performance (2015-...)
Commissioned byAtlas Arts, Isle of Skye, Scotland

How To Eat As Humans Change Climates.
CLIMAVORE is a long-term project that sets out to envision seasons of food production and consumption that react to man-induced climatic events and landscape alterations. Different from the now obsolete Eurocentric cycle of spring, summer, autumn and winter, CLIMAVORE rethinks the construction of space and infrastructure by focusing on how climate alterations offer a new set of clues to adapt our diet to them. Unexpected climatic phenomena, like subsidence, flash floods or drought, may span minutes, days, months, years or centuries. CLIMAVORE is then proposed as a form of devouring following their effects on anthropogenic landscapes. Unlike carnivore, omnivore, locavore, vegetarian or vegan, CLIMAVORE is not only about the origin of ingredients, but also about the agency that those ingredients have in providing spatial and infrastructural responses to man-induced climatic events for a certain period of time. At the core is to embrace a flexible form of eating, shifting for instance to drought resistant crops in a period of water scarcity or filter feeders during times of polluted or acidified waters. Framing our diet within a globally financialised landscape, and challenging large-scale agribusiness groups dictating what is to be produced and consumed, the notion of CLIMAVORE critically questions the geopolitical implications behind the making of climate alterations and the pressures they enforce on humans and nonhumans alike.

Set on the intertidal zone at Bayfield, CLIMAVORE: On Tidal Zones explores the environmental effects of aquaculture and reacts to the changing shores of Portree, Isle of Skye. Each day at low tide, the installation emerges above the sea and functions as a dining table for humans, with free tastings of recipes featuring ocean cleaners: seaweeds, oysters, clams and mussels. At high tide, the installation works as an underwater oyster table. The installation was activated by Cooking Sections in collaboration with local stakeholders, residents, politicians and researchers. Over breakfast, lunch, or dinner (according to the tides), performative meals featured a series of CLIMAVORE ingredients that respond to the environmental challenges of Scottish waters. The project also engaged with 10 local restaurants that removed farmed salmon off their menu and introduced a CLIMAVORE dish instead. The long-term project aims to look at CLIMAVORE forms of eating that address environmental regeneration and promote more responsive aqua-cultures in an era of man-induced environmental transformations.

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CLIMAVORE: On Tidal Zones - Cooking Sections

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CLIMAVORE: On Tidal Zones Installation-Performance (2015-...) Commissioned by Atlas Arts, Isle of Skye, Scotland How To Eat As Humans Change Climates. CLIMAVORE is a long-term project that sets out to envision seasons of food production and...

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The LIFE VIMINE project, coordinated by the University of Padua, aims to construct numerous smaller micro soil-bioengineering projects to protect saltmarsh edges, using biodegradable materials with low environmental and landscape impact (wooden bundles, groynes and wind barriers, small sediment nourishment, transplantation of halophytic vegetation).

At the basis of these soil-bioengineering protection projects is the bundle of wooden branches, with a length of about 2 meters, tied with natural fiber ropes. The small spaces left between the bundles and the saltmarsh edges are filled with sediment that is quickly colonized by vegetation, which in turn consolidates them, thus effectively reconstructing new saltmarsh areas.

The wood to create bundles was supplied free of charge and obtained from routine forest management activities (such as pruning) carried out in in the lagoon and its mainland. The waste generated by the management of wooded areas thus became a valuable resource to be transported just a short distance away with the added plus of both reduced costs and reduced CO2 emissions. Jobs for local residents from around the lagoon were also created.

The involvement of local communities and stakeholders, due to their bond with the territory and knowledge of its dynamics, could make the project even more sustainable in the long term.
What are the CO2 reduction goals?
The surface occupied by saltmarshes (green areas) has drastically decreased from 158 square kilometers in 1912 to only 40 square kilometers today. The green lungs of Venice's lagoon are in peril and carbon dioxide absorption decreases proportionally to the loss of green areas. This project aims to protect and remodel these important habitats.
Next Steps
This pilot project was financed by the European Community for four years from 2013 to 2017. A protocol of agreement to implement this integrated approach for the maintenance of this worksite and other fragile parts of the Venice lagoon is foreseen between the City of Venice, the 'Provveditorato alle Opere Pubbliche' (the Local Public Works Superintendence), the University of Padua, the Veneto Region and the 'Consorzio di Bonifica Acque Risorgive' (the local Drainage Consortium).
Links to further information
LIFE VIMINE official website (Italian)

LIFE VIMINE: Progetto Europeo per la Protezione delle Barene (Italian)

Progetto LIFE VIMINE (Italian)
Contact Details
Claudia Ferrari

Department of Strategic and Environmental Projects

City of Venice
servizio.ambiente@comune.venezia.it
Luca Palmeri

Department of Industrial Engineering

University of Padua
lifevimine@dii.unipd.it lpalmeri@unipd.it

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Saltmarshes Restoration in the Venice Lagoon Addresses Land Erosion - C40 Cities

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LIFE VIMINE is a European Project which aims to define and implement a novel, integrated approach to landscape management, with the goal of protecting the salt marshes of the inner parts of the Venice lagoon from erosion.

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Average depth of the lagoon is approximately 1 m

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Average depth of the lagoon is approximately 1 m

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https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Bathymetric-chart-of-the-Lagoon-of-Venice-and-curvilinear-boundary-fitted-grid-used-for_fig2_248522015

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31.08.2023 - Fishing huts at Pellestrina

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31.08.2023 - Fishing huts at Pellestrina

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Temperature: 77°F

Wind: E7.4mph

Humidity: 66%

Drifting, dreaming, our boat glides through the lagoon

Port side: The island of Pellestrina, 11 kilometres long, 500 metres at its widest

Forming a barrier between the southern Venetian Lagoon and the Adriatic Sea

Pink, yellow, brown, pale orange, orange-pink, lime green with dark green shutters, sandy brown, deep red, brown, cornflower yellow, salmony pink, vermillion, pink,

mustard yellow with pink shutters

The sun intensifies the coloured facades

The lagoon is calm, except for the wake created by our small motorboat

The dog on board sniffs the sea air, his ears blow in the wind

Many of our crew have left now, back to foreign lands, sadly missing this new discovery

I think about them and these last three weeks

We continue the glide along the coastline

The chocolate box houses momentarily replaced by industrial structures

Huge white cylinders, large rectangular buildings

A resting cement transporter: yellow with blue stripes and rust

Boat yards, warehouses, white, blue, terracotta red, sandy brown with broken windows

Four large blue barrels lined up outside

Two yellow cranes stand in the distance out to sea

Starboard: Silhouettes of fishing huts precariously sitting on stilts

Patched together bits of timber and corrugated roofs

Muted colours, contrasting with the array of coloured houses on the shoreline

Calm, quiet

Like an abandoned shantytown of the sea

Each structure is individual, beautiful

Nets hanging, fish boxes, memories

I wonder about the fishermen

I wonder what it might be like to sit for hours out here

Islands on stilts

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Study of floating/aquatic typologies

Hut above water > structure with reflects the tide > floating structures > boat > artificial salt marsh

Measuring tides- modified tide house to create a drawing

Long exposure pin-hole cameras: 1 week, 3 weeks, 1 year, 3 years?

Observations below water- underwater viewer / aqua-scope / camera / water samples- microscopic / aquatic organisms

Wind sculpture

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How many Fishermen huts are there?

Where are they in the lagoon?

Still in use?

Abandoned?

History?

Materials

Artefacts

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Access- boat / raft?

Accessible at low tide? can I walk?

Distance from shore

Permission / squatting

Sleep

Sun, rain, storms

Mosquitos

Water

Waste

Connection with LL

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https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/tutorial_tides/tides10_oldmeasure.html