Oceans in Transformation - Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, John Palmesino, Markus Reymann and Daniela Zyman - Editorial

Editorial

Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, John Palmesino, Markus Reymann, Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, and Daniela Zyman

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Territorial Agency, When above…, 2020. A light installation on the façade of Ocean Space, Church of San Lorenzo, marks future sea level locked in by global warming—+6m in the next century—and calls attention to the vulnerability of the oceans and the human communities dependent on its wellbeing. Commissioned by TBA21–Academy. Photo: Marco Cappelletti.

Oceans in Transformation
May 2020










Notes
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Institute of Marine Sciences (ISMAR) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) collaborates with the Tide Forecasting and Reporting Center of the Municipality of Venice (Centro Previsioni e Segnalazioni Maree del Comune di Venezia) and the institutes ISPRA and ARPA of Emilia Romagna for developing sea level and wave forecasting models. “On this specific occasion, the rapid transit of a very local phenomenon, such as the cyclonic vortex L2, was difficult to predict,” reads the official report of ISMAR’s homepage. Christian Ferrarin, Jacopo Chiggiato, Marco Bajo, Katrin Schroeder, Luca Zaggia, and Alvise Benetazzo “VENICE: The exceptional high sea level event of 12/11/2019. Preliminary analysis of the data and description of the phenomenon,” November 28, 2019, , 5.

2

Ibid., 3.

3

Institute of Marine Sciences, CNR-ISMAR, Venice, Italy et al., “The 2019 Flooding of Venice and Its Implications for Future Predictions,” Oceanography 33, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 42.

4

IPCC, “Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate,” 2019, ; IPCC, "Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report," 2014, .

Oceans in Transformation is a collaboration between TBA21–Academy and e-flux Architecture within the context of the eponymous exhibition at Ocean Space in Venice by Territorial Agency and its manifestation on Ocean Archive.