SMALL GALLERY
March 27 – May 2, 2026
Reading Room: Rising Waters
Featuring contributions by London Allcock, Olivia Rose, Nana White, Ali Casey, Raphael Shay, Laura Kozak and Laiwan.
Reading Room: Rising Waters gathers together information, reports, artworks, maps and photographs to tell the stories of coastal flooding. From reports sharing predictions, to information about the flora and fauna that will be most affected. The creative and innovative solutions explored by other communities, the exhibition is part of a larger project. Rising Waters that will unfold over the next six months considering questions of our shared ecological, infrastructural and cultural entanglements with water.
When faced with catastrophic information within the climate crisis, our tendency is to often act defensively and reactively. Rising Waters brings together creative thinkers to think with our ongoing ecological and climate crises, and see ways of bringing their creativity to the challenge of floods and rising waters. Working across different knowledge systems – water management, land-use zoning, aquaculture, conservation, Indigenous ways of knowing, and creativity, Rising Waters cross-pollinates an interdisciplinary approach, to see how information about flooding is translated, expressed and experienced.
RESOURCES
Coastal Foreshore Interactive map
https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/fdf19e4868d048cea1d0adbfa39f6f92
https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/d159dea7d9d443de973e1343a6724e7c
https://www.letstalkrichmond.ca/StevestonIslandDike
Green Shores – Comox
https://www.comoxvalleyrd.ca/greenshores
https://stewardshipcentrebc.ca/green-shores-home/
Mud Flats Surrey
https://www.surrey.ca/services-payments/water-drainage-sewer/flood-control-and-prevention/coastal-flood-adaptation-projects
https://www.surrey.ca/services-payments/water-drainage-sewer/flood-control-and-prevention/coastal-flood-adaptation-projects/mud-bay
səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation) Shoreline Adaptation and Restoration Project
https://twnation.ca/twn-reserve-shoreline-adaptation-project/#projectlocationmap
https://twnation.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/TWN-Example-Shoreline-Adaptation-Restoration-Projects.pdf
Living with Water:
https://www.livingwithwater.ca/
Sea2City
https://vancouver.ca/files/cov/sea2city-project-story.pdf
Living Shoreline Project
https://publicartarchive.org/art/The-Living-Shoreline-Project/418e4381
Artist Projects Visualizing Flooding and Sea Level Rise
Timo Aho and Pekka Niittyvirta, Lines (57° 59′ N, 7° 16’W)
https://niittyvirta.com/lines-57-59-n-7-16w/
Andre Kong Studio, A Cautionary BenchMark
https://www.andrekong.com/a-cautionary-benchmark.html
Laiwan: How Water Remembers
https://www.laiwanette.net/#/how-water-remembers/