SUPERFLEX Floods Palazzo Strozzi With Future Refuges for Marine Life

Danish art collective SUPERFLEX has transformed the Renaissance courtyard of Palazzo Strozzi into a shallow reflecting pool from which eight pink travertine columns rise — each surface textured to encourage marine organisms to colonize it as sea levels climb. Running through August 2 in Florence, the installation marks sixty years since the 1966 flood that devastated the city and proposes what the artists call “interspecies architecture”: space designed not for humans alone, but for the species that will arrive as our built world goes under. Source: Designboom

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