Abstract
Now that people all around the world are slowly starting to rethink how humanity and the planet are interrelated, new questions have arisen around the understanding of time and the perception of place. It’s not merely a technical or a political challenge that we are facing, it is also a cultural one. The Sand Motor - as the first of its kind - uses the forces of the wind and waves as active agengies of change, but can it be valued as a driving force for humanity to change as well? Drawing from primary artistic research of the sea, coastal transitions, climate change and human appropriations in The Netherlands and abroad, we can state that the ephemeral nature of the Sand Motor itself challenges a polyphonic discourse for co-creation of experiential knowledge. The Sand Motor can be perceived as a man-made intervention in public space, an open-air, publicly accessible research site. Over the past 10 years, Satellietgroep redefined the Sand Motor as a cultural phenomenon, connecting the Sand Motor to the realms of art, culture, and heritage. This essay discusses a series of human-inclusive art projects, in which the Sand Motor evolves from a non-place into a vital learning environment for the cross-pollination of ideas and experimentations to rethink culture and nature. They demonstrate that pioneering with the Sand Motor should include pioneering with the social and cultural values of this artifact, not only to raise public and professional climate-consciousness, but also to adopt it as a human-inclusive landscape. This may well be the most underestimated value of the Sand Motor itself, and of the concept of Building with Nature in general.
Highlights
The Dutch have a rich cultural and innovative relationship with the sea.The ongoing existential challenges due to the fluxes of the North Sea in past, present and future are important for everyone
The transdisciplinary collective creates conditions for artists, designers and students to work on-site during artist-in-residency programs, collaborate with the extensive network of locals and scientists - including the researchers of the NatureCoast program - and develop new works and insights that are shared with wider audiences during public programs, often beyond the realm of the arts. (Satellietgroep & Heerema, J., 2019)
The becoming of Sand Motor In January 2006, awareness that the North Sea may be perceived as a construction site or energy landscape to fit our needs instigated artists collective Satellietgroep to question ‘To whom belongs the sea?’ The initiative was triggered by the remarkable lack of involvement of arts, culture and heritage in the master plans for coastal transitions in The Netherlands, especially in The
Summary
The Dutch have a rich cultural and innovative relationship with the sea. The ongoing existential challenges due to the fluxes of the North Sea in past, present and future are important for everyone. PIONEERING SAND MOTOR: THE SAND MOTOR AS SOURCE TO RETHINK ANTHROPOGENIC COASTAL MODIFICATIONS IN CULTURAL PUBLIC SPACE ture meet the narratives of humanity. To spark our imagination for an unforeseen future we are challenged to enhance professional and public climate-consciousness. With the Sand Motor, all issues around climate change, relative sea level rise, the future of coastal safety, and the role of humanity in these processes come together. In retrospect, these reciprocal encounters revealed unforeseen values of the Sand Motor. Sixteen Public Expeditions, a growing Sand Motor Collection, and an exhibition program called ‘Climate as Artifact’ (Satellietgroep, 2018) demonstrate how an explorational artist-in-residency program and an inclusive public program can create alternative ways of perceiving and being at the. Without a preconceived idea, Satellietgroep is curious to see the opportunities that climate (change) can offer us
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