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Fiona Boundy

Gloucester Circus, Greenwich, United Kingdom
Fiona Boundy is a Visual Arts Curator who has previously commissioned a number of major architectural projects including Kunsthulle, Liverpool by OSA, Drum and Basin by SIMPARCH and the RIBA award winning Ecology of Colour by Studio Weave. As a Curator, Boundy has a strong interest in multidisciplinary practices, particularly those that include collaborations between visual art, architecture, music and craft.

Call for ideas 2016

A Future Floating Architecture Forum


'Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink....'

A Future Floating Architecture Forum


'Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink....'
With rising sea levels, extreme weather and a shortage of development sites we are witnessing a great interest in the potential of floating buildings.
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With rising sea levels, extreme weather and a shortage of development sites, more and more global communities will live, work and play on the water. The Future Floating Architecture Forum will provide an opportunity to explore this increasingly prevalent driver of architecture and urban design and will comprise of three strands - the first will examine the global history of living on the water from the Kettuvallam houseboats of Kerala to the countercultural floating community of Sausalito.
The second will include presentations by architectural practices, who are pioneering approaches to building sustainable floating homes and urban infrastructure.
The third and final strand, will see presentations from a number of visual artists including Alex Hartley and Mary Mattingly who have developed environmentally focused projects, which embrace the possibilities of floating architecture. This strand of the forum will also explore the 'anti-architecture' potential of floating buildings.

A Future Floating Architecture Forum


'Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink....'

A Future Floating Architecture Forum


'Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink....'
With rising sea levels, extreme weather and a shortage of development sites we are witnessing a great interest in the potential of floating buildings.
File under

With rising sea levels, extreme weather and a shortage of development sites, more and more global communities will live, work and play on the water. The Future Floating Architecture Forum will provide an opportunity to explore this increasingly prevalent driver of architecture and urban design and will comprise of three strands - the first will examine the global history of living on the water from the Kettuvallam houseboats of Kerala to the countercultural floating community of Sausalito.
The second will include presentations by architectural practices, who are pioneering approaches to building sustainable floating homes and urban infrastructure.
The third and final strand, will see presentations from a number of visual artists including Alex Hartley and Mary Mattingly who have developed environmentally focused projects, which embrace the possibilities of floating architecture. This strand of the forum will also explore the 'anti-architecture' potential of floating buildings.


Idea by

Fiona Boundy
Gloucester Circus
Greenwich
United Kingdom
Fiona Boundy is a Visual Arts Curator who has previously commissioned a number of major architectural projects including Kunsthulle, Liverpool by OSA, Drum and Basin by SIMPARCH and the RIBA award winning Ecology of Colour by Studio Weave. As a Curator, Boundy has a strong interest in multidisciplinary practices, particularly those that include collaborations between visual art, architecture, music and craft.