The Floor‘s Ocean addresses the Dutch identity of technological “warriors against the rising
water level” by taking a closer look at the province of Flevoland; an area of 1400 square
kilometers that has been reclaimed from the Zuiderzee in 1986 after an intensive process of
drainage and dike building, using state of the art technology.
The creation of Flevoland represents a broader technology-driven anthropocentric ideology,
as well as its overlooked consequences: from the loss of biodiversity along the coast, to the
strict selection process determining which farmers were allocated farms on the new land and
the marginalization of fishing villages forced to find new identities and sources of income after
“their” coastal waters were converted into land.
Illustrated with computer generated imagery, Julia proposes one last radical change in Flevoland’s
landscape.