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Tidal floodwaters, Muara Angke, Jakarta © Fernando Randy
Sea Level Cities. Living at the Urban Seafront in Jakarta and Bremen is an international photography exhibition that explores the impact of rising sea levels – and of the architectural measures taken to protect against flooding – on urban landscapes, public spaces and people in Jakarta and Bremen.
The exhibition shows works by 15 photographers from Jakarta, a city sinking into the Pacific Ocean, in dialogue with selected images from Bremen and Bremerhaven, realised by Fotoetage Bremen. The sequence of cityscapes and social uses, flood scenarios and adaptable architecture reveals the complex situation of the Sea Level City Jakarta and how it is already dealing with the consequences of climate change. Special attention is paid to the architectural added value of flood defences as well as on collective and individual adaptation measures.
A multidisciplinary jury, consisting of six members from Bremen/Germany and Jakarta/Indonesia, selected the photographs submitted to the competition. Photographs documenting the resilience and agency of the local population were particularly compelling. The photographs make a valuable contribution to raising awareness of the social and design requirements of urban coastal protection and to promote social discourse.
The participating photographers are Aan Melliana, Abyan Madani, Arie Basuki, Dikye Ariani, Iqro Rinaldi, Muhammad Fauzan, Qeis Sulthon, Wiagung Prayudha, Yuan Adriles, Agus Susanto, Djuli Pamungkas, Fernando Randy, Idealita Ismanto, Rejeky Kene and Nafiah Solikhah from Jakarta, as well as Nikolai Wolff and Kay Michalak (Fotoetage) from Bremen.
Sea Level Cities. Living at the Urban Seafront in Jakarta and Bremen is organised by the Bremen Centre for Building Culture and the City University of Applied Sciences Bremen in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Indonesia, Fotoetage Bremen, the international network POLIS-SEA and Universitas Indonesia. It is the second exhibition of the inter- and transdisciplinary research and transfer project DeichStadt (Dyke City) on the topic of coastal protection and building culture in urban areas. The exhibition is sponsored by the Region[s] in Transition research cluster at City University of Applied Sciences Bremen. It is an official activity of the United Nations Decade of Oceanography for Sustainable Development.
The exhibition was curated by Nikolai Wolff and Kay Michalak in collaboration with Ingke Färber, Jan-Philipp Possmann and Christian von Wissel.