artificial reefs | anthropocene design | coral & island theories
This article is heavy on the role of social management in artificial reef use.
Art Islands: Ecological Thought and Mass Tourism in the Redesigned Canary Islands When modern artist and architect Cesar Manrique returned home to Lanzarote, the northernmost of the Canary Islands off the coast of Morocco, after a twenty-year sojourn abroad to study modern art in 1964, he returned to an island in flux. Energized by a … Continue reading Art Islands
If you thought you were going to get a comprehensive understanding of Britain's recent disavowal of the European Union here then you, dear reader, have been duped by a pun masquerading as clickbait. I can always count on puns. I am not qualified to explain or predict the impacts of Britain's exit, but I … Continue reading Brexit at depth, or Building Sovereignty
Welcome to Las Salinas de Janubio, a salt farm on the Western coast. Like the senmaida of Japan's Noto Peninsula, the salt fields are an agricultural heritage site. It has fewer visitors, however, and I'm not sure why. Las Salinas has neat squares of my favorite colors, celadon and rust and nothing quite white, and … Continue reading Las Salinas de Janubio
A late afternoon in a village sitting on aquaculture pens.
How do you create closed-circuit conservation? That is, how can restoration projects not create waste and undue burden on the communities doing the work? Last week, I got a peek at how the TNC’s new restoration project in Sunny Bay systematically alters and aids local coral communities by relying on local communities and infrastructure. Part … Continue reading Crown of Thorns
Deep Water, Horizons: Artificial Reef Communities, Above and Below the Water Line Rennie Meyers Submitted January 26th, 2016 2 Epeli St, Suva, Fiji To the members of the Watson Committee, My grandfather had big hands. Paw hands. I am on his computer in an overheated library, feet of blue-white snow outside the window and … Continue reading Quarterly Report, II
Two weeks ago 21 major world powers gathered at COP21, an international assembly of politicians, scientists, journalists, and activists, ostensibly trying to address the current and future consequences of climate change. Obama grasped at the tendrils of an environmental legacy as he, and the other nations present, signed on to a climate accord that hopes … Continue reading Kiribati, COP21, and a place for blame
It's been 23 days since I landed in Nadi, Fiji, anxious about my homestay and not having enough time to do the work I need to do. It was hot, I was exhausted after 32 hours of airports and bags and customs officers, and I had no idea what Fiji was about. When I considered … Continue reading Landed, III: Fiji
After Borneo or, What is an Artificial Reef? No, really, what is it? What does it do? That is to say, what is the goal of constructing an artificial reef? Is it to refurbish destroyed reef ecosystems? Is it to maintain fish stock? To support coral resilience in the face of climate change? To guarantee a good … Continue reading After Borneo, or
Built From Crooked Timber 