WATERFRONTS

Every project reaches its final milestone. The more interesting question is what remains afterwards. For WATERFRONTS, the answer is not simply a collection of reports, artworks or events. It is a methodology, a network of people and organisations, and a different way of thinking about the relationship between culture, environmental change and community resilience. Over two years, WATERFRONTS brought together artists, researchers, municipalities, cultural organisations and local communities...

Coastal and waterfront communities are often the first to experience environmental change. Rising seas, water scarcity, shifting shorelines and the gradual loss of familiar landscapes reshape not only the places people live, but also how they feel about them. Alongside these physical changes comes something harder to measure: the worry, grief and uncertainty many people experience in response to a changing climate—often described as eco-anxiety. The WATERFRONTS project set out to explore how...

WATERFRONTS has published the WATERFRONTS Toolkit, a free practical guide that helps artists, cultural organisations, municipalities and community partners apply the project’s arts-led approach to climate resilience in coastal and waterfront communities. The Toolkit is designed to be transferable: it separates the reusable method from the record of what WATERFRONTS did in practice, so that other organisations can adapt the approach to their own local context rather than simply copy it. The...