Facing Up To Rising Sea Levels Touring Exhibition

Facing Up To Rising Sea Levels

This exhibition is the result of a joint project between RIBA Building Futures and the Institution of Civil Engineers to scrutinise the current practice of coastal flood management in the urban context.

This is a think-piece designed to provoke longer-term thinking about sea level-rise and its implications. Coastal cities have the most acute problem: one tidal flood event can ruin people´s homes and critical infrastructure. The problems and challenges posed by future population growth, urban migration patterns and housing demand will fall predominantly on cities, exaggerating the problem further.

This exhibition forecasts three different attitudes towards flooding policy, and visualises these scenarios in the future. Some of proposals are extremes – they need to be in order to tackle the scale of the problem. Will we chose to retreat, defend or attack?

The touring exhibition will be starting in London at the Building Centre on the 6 January until 30 January 2010. From there it will move to Portsmouth Cathedral on 15-27 February, then onto Bristol Architecture Centre on 6 March-8 April, and finish in Hull at ARC on 15-28 April.

The exhibition currently open to the public is: