Floating Revolutions

Creative responses to river waste (collection) and urban farming

The urban river acts as a reflection of the changing city. Along it’s length the banks harden from soil to stone and steel, as the river flows from hill and farm, through the city onwards to industrial estate and edge-lands.  With this in mind our social, economic and political landscapes cast their shadows across it’s surface as the by-products of daily life are washed-up on it’s banks and flow it’s length on this journey.

The work made on this project references the floating vegetable gardens in lowland South-Central Bangladesh, that rise and fall with the swelling waters, as a blueprint for possible future living in South Wales.

Materials were collected by boat with support from Cardiff Harbour Authority and Bottega Project.