River Assemblies - Ella Prokkola
Ella Prokkola ( Finland )
During the residency, Ella is working on River Assemblies, an architectural research project studying urban post-industrial rivers. The project examines our relation to the more-than-human world by acknowledging many commons such as the atmosphere, clean water or healthy soil as products of more-than-human processes. Can we identify and pay better attention to those, who produce the hydrocommons essential for our wellbeing? The project approaches urban river landscapes as what Anna Tsing calls “open gatherings” of both human and non-human bodies and ways of worldmaking. The spatial negotiations between human-modified river morphology and non-human species are examined by using methods of open fieldwork sessions, choreographic scores and multimedia storytelling.
