Living on water: welcome to a shedboatshed world

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Living on water: welcome to a shedboatshed world
Ken Worpole
14 - 12 - 2005

A journey through the coastal landscape of Essex, eastern England, convinces Ken Worpole that human beings in the 21st century must relearn how to live with water.

The choice of Simon Starling as the winner of Britain’s premier visual arts award, the Turner Prize, was a triumph for ideas, if not aesthetics. Starling’s signature installation, Shedboatshed: Mobile Architecture No2 is a large wooden hut which the artist bought in situ in Germany, dismantled and reconstructed as a boat, rowed down the Rhine for a few miles, then reassembled as a shed. In this reconstituted form it has become a prizewinning work of art.
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Water – in the form of its shortages and excesses – is likely to become a dominant political issue in the 21st century. Too little of it in many parts of the world; too much in others. Both shortages and excesses in large part derive from unsustainable forms of development, and hostile forms of architecture, civil engineering and settlement.
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