Two circles:
1 Todays cycle
2 Our tomorrows vision
Our idea for the workshop is to exploit kelp that is a huge resource that grows on solid rock and stones in the seabed. We are A) facing climate changes and B) there is a facts that the land of Jæren is rising and farmers are struggling with rocks that pops up on the arable land. And C) the sea urchin is threatening the kelp by eating 40% of it.
We will kelp trawl the seabed, that already is a part of the industry at Jæren today. The problem is that nature is not protected or safeguarded during commercial trawling today. Fish, birds, lobsters etc. suffers in a poor environment because the seaweed, that they live in and from, is harvested. This also makes the sea unstabile and the waves become bigger in the coastal Jæren.
We will use the rocks that pops up on the farmers fields to create artificial environment to cultivate seaweed. Now we will be able to exploit kelp commercially and still take care of the biotopes in the sea which currently suffers.
Next step is to find locations of these artificial kelp basins, if this can be done at all…?
Yu - Snædis - Emilie
Hey Yu, Snæddis and Emilie
ReplyDeleteOur BAS student Kristian Bekkenes made a project for an artificial reef in our City as Biotope studio last autumn. As you see on the blog I will bring this book from this studio when we enter the next theme Imbedded Information.
Kristian, one of our students, wrote this:
"With the artificial reefs and islands we can contribute to the re-establishment of vegetation and wildlife that will be natural in a moderately polluted shallow water of teh Western Harbour. The next generation will experience a purer seabed and a marine ecosystem that is governed by the natural framework....The Kelp Forrest supports an incredible diverse community of marine life. Produsing oxygen to the sea".
So - I would like to see more of your workshop thinking. If you search on the Littoral Zone on Internett a whole scientific research will unfold for you, form all over the world. It goes on threatened biotopes in this zone between sea and shore.
There is a crucial keyword in your research : synergy. There are many landscape projects out there that are now trying to construct new ecologies or restore old ones by building upon natural synergies between elements/systems.. (like west8 did as pioneers in 1992 in their Eastern Scheldt Storm Surge Barrier). Test it out, and at the same time try to think what new SPACE this synergic systems will create.. Alice
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