Challenges being addressed
This interdisciplinary art-science project uses geology to inspire sustainability action. We will connect pasts and futures by walking along possible future coastlines in East Anglia, to exchange the art and science of long-term Earth change for creating local understandings. These coastline scenarios will indicate actions for achieving a preferred future.
Research impact
To expand the reach of geology beyond disciplinary boundaries to make it relevant to those who may not typically engage with it or who face barriers in interacting with and using it.
The specific purpose is to combine art and science for using the pasts and futures of East Anglia’s coastlines to inspire sustainability action. Coastlines evolve through geological processes layered at different spatial and temporal scales. Learning from past geomorphological changes supports understanding of possible futures—and how we could create a future which we seek.
Funding
Imagining coastlines is funded by Geologists’ Association.
Project duration
1 May 2025 - 30 September 2026.
Project team and collaborators
- Kaitlin Ferguson, independent
- Liz Hide, Sedgwick Museum
- Ilan Kelman, UCL.