Imagining Coastlines is an interdisciplinary research project involving a series of walks along the future projected coastlines of East Anglia, exploring deep futures through art and science conversations. These routes were based on predicted sea level rise over the next one hundred, one thousand and ten thousand years. Walking these imagined coastlines allowed us to consider how long term environmental processes, shifting geologies and coastal change may shape the region in the future. Our walks took place along the Norfolk Coast, the Norfolk Broads and the Cambridgeshire Fens, bringing together artistic and scientific approaches to explore geology, sustainability and climate action along England’s changing coastal landscapes.

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Working together as an artist and a scientist, we exchanged methods and observations, leading to the creation of Liquid Language, a large scale textile installation composed of printed cotton banners suspended through the main concourse of the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

The project culminated in a public event at the museum, where we shared our research and discussed the collaboration with visitors.