Publication

Critical Coast

A cross-disciplinary reader on the ecologies and spaces of coastal landscapes

Editors: Jeppe Sengupta Carstensen and Anna Aslaug Lund
Commissioned: Josephine Michau
Publisher: The Danish Architectural Press
Design: Alexis Mark
Print: Grafiche Venezian
Distribution: Idea Books and Actar
Contributing editors: Søren Nørkjær Bang, Snigdhendu Bhattacharya, Amina Chouairi, Cornelius Holck Colding, Anders Ehlers Dam, Bror Axel Dehn, Daniel Flendt Dreesen, Iisa Eikaas, Ole Fryd, Lea Wiggen Kramhøft, Vittore Negretto, Soo Jung Ryu, Jeppe Svan Sørensen, Katrina Wiberg

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Critical Coast is a cross-disciplinary reader that explores the ecologies and spaces of coastal landscapes, the urgencies of contemporary coastlands and diachronic ideas about coastal futures. In continuation of the exhibition Coastal Imaginaries curated by Josephine Michau in the Danish Pavilion at the Biennale Architettura di Venezia 2023, Critical Coast presents a series of artistic representations, essays, poetry, found material, visual suites, fairy tales and empirical conversations with numerous international voices such as Dipesh Chakrabarty, Emanuele Coccia, Rebecca Solnit, Susannah Drake, Inuuteq Storch, Virginia Woolf, Amitav Ghosh, Jane da Mosto, Katherine Richardson, Superflex, Theodor Storm, Julia Watson, Billy Fleming, Bathsheba Demuth, Hans Christian Andersen and many others. Critical Coast comes in the format of a handbook made in a durable hardcover that readers can bring along into the field – into imaginary coastal landscapes as well as those at risk of disappearing today.

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Made with the generous support of:
Dreyers Fond, Danish Arts Foundation, Ministry of Culture Denmark, Realdania



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Exhibition
Inspiring climate action
An interview with the curatorial team, published in Koozarch, 19 July 2023
Exhibition
Curatorial Statement
by Josephine Michau, Curator of Coastal Imaginaries
Archive
A Swampy and Impenetrable Landscape with Unpredictable Natural Disasters
A Roundtable on the Skjern River Delta and New Narratives in Nature Restoration
Archive
Conversation with Jane Da Mosto
A podcast on cruise ships, salt marshes, and collective actions.
Publication
Critical Coast
A cross-disciplinary reader on the ecologies and spaces of coastal landscapes
Archive
Educating for the Future: for What and How?
A podcast on the future of architectural education and the environmental risks that lie ahead
Exhibition
Exhibition Preview
Documentation from Coastal Imaginaries
Archive
It Really Might Come Tomorrow
A Roundtable on Predictions and How to Think About the Coast
Exhibition
Rising sea levels envisioned through eyes of a mermaid at Denmark's Venice Architecture Biennale pavilion
A Interview with the Curator, Published in Dezeen, 17 May 2023
Publication
Selected spreads from Critical Coast
Designed by Alexis Mark
Archive
The Idea of the Celebrated Architect and Humans as a Superior Species Is No Longer at the Centre of Architecture
A Roundtable on Coastal Imaginaries and Collaboration
Archive
Venice and Copenhagen as Coastal Cities – What Are the Potentials of Nature Based Solutions?
A podcast on co-habitation, waterscapes and nature-based solutions.
Archive
Vinyl release with music a piece for the diorama-installation Mermaid Bay
by Peter Peter, released by Escho
Archive
What We Need Is an Approach Towards Cohabitation
A Roundtable on the Ganges Delta and South-to-South Knowledge
Archive
Whatever You Do Should Be in Dialogue With the Existing Landscape
A Roundtable on Copenhagen Islands and Nature-Based Solutions,

Pavillion

Entrance to the Danish Pavilion

About

Coastal Imaginaries is the name of the Danish Pavilion at the Biennale di Venezia in 2023. Critical Coast is the name of the publication made in connection with it.

This place aims at gathering a lot of the inspiration and knowledge surrounding the project and is growing along the span of the exhibition.