Dominica Piatek

A Landscape Infrastructure of Resistance for Crayford and Dartford Marshes:

Located on the edge of Southeast London, the Crayford and Dartford Marshes are an overlooked landscape spanning an area of over 5km2. The fate of these edgelands is unknown, there is a growing interest from developers who are investing in large areas of the green belt, flooding is becoming a serious issue for the industrial estates, yet the wildlife is flourishing.

These landscapes are deemed by many as unattractive; however, the qualities of these spaces display key elements of our history, industrial heritage, ecology and society all in one overlooked space. The proposal introduces an infrastructure of accessibility, a strategy for conservation of industrial heritage and protection of wildlife which resists the future commodification of marshes with more dominant capitalist approaches to land. The infrastructure also allows us to engage in speculation about the ways in which the landscape can change due to climate crisis and how it can be protected.