Project proposal

Working title: A Sea of Thought

Intent and Content

I will create a website, a digital environment that functions as an infrastructure to share, activate and map out my research on the relationship of the Netherlands to water and the (built) environment. This takes the form of a poetic inquiry that takes various locations and events as points of departure. This project will be long term. For this year, I aim to build the skeleton of the website and a first utterance of content related to the following locations:

Rotta: The Deluge, a Dutch origin myth

Delfshaven: The Moon and the Market

Europort: Liquid land

NorthC (Datacenter): Clouded vision

The poetic inquiry consists of two aspects that in large provide the content for the website; the thesis and radio show ‘Dear Navigator’. The listed locations are at the heart of the thesis framework. For a further elaboration on the significance of these location I refer you to the thesis outline.‘Dear Navigator’ is a radio show in collaboration with Cara Mayer Yepez and Good Times Bad Times Radio. With each episode we focus on a different physical location in Rotterdam, weaving together field-recordings, music, spoken word and discussions, to give rise to a sonic collage that speaks of memory, architecture, and political realities. We are currently developing the second episode on the Tweebosbuurt and Zalmhaventoren. The first episode focussed on the Maastunnel. The development of each episode takes about 1 or 2 months. Two of the episodes we will be developing over the course of this year focus on Delfshaven and the Europort.