Dean, C. 2026. Liquid Futures: Floating Biodiveristy Habitats. in: Mo Michelsen Stochholm Krag, Sophia Meeres and Ben Stringer (ed.) Re-Scaling the Rural: Essays on ruralities across disciplines and scales UK ORO Editions/AR+D (Applied Research + Design Publishing). pp. 86-98
| Chapter title | Liquid Futures: Floating Biodiveristy Habitats |
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| Authors | Dean, C. |
| Editors | Mo Michelsen Stochholm Krag, Sophia Meeres and Ben Stringer |
| Abstract | I propose that the project Liquid Futures: Floating Biodiversity Habitats, a co-production project between myself, Cody Dock and UG architecture students, London provided an opportunity to consider how we create new socio-environmental relations and ‘multi-species’ considerations in conceiving spatial strategies for transition to a consideration for non-human agency. The project arrived from a series of tangents and assemblages (fieldwork) where I engaged in my own form of relational situations within deconstructing narrow framing of contamination and pollution, within the River Lee, London. The project formed an experimental pedagogic process in which undergraduate architecture students were encouraged to think beyond a singular spatial strategy and to engage with water as an active agent, what Bennet frames as vibrant matter. Historically the Lea’s played host to London’s industrial industries from cloth dye to more contemporary aluminum and alloy surface treatments thus leaving a legacy of historical toxicity. |
| Keywords | socio-ecological relationships, vibrant matter |
| Book title | Re-Scaling the Rural: Essays on ruralities across disciplines and scales |
| Page range | 86-98 |
| Year | 2026 |
| Publisher | ORO Editions/AR+D (Applied Research + Design Publishing) |
| Publication dates | |
| Published | 06 May 2026 |
| Place of publication | UK |
| ISBN | 9781966515050 |