Drift Dynamic Code PSC002 2e prijs / 2nd prize Nemo knew. In 1868 Jules Verne created a scientist with a love of the ocean. We have turned to a time before Nemo when ice sculpted the earth, when land was consumed by a surface with a power equal to that of today's urban frontier and its entropic wake. LOCATION The chosen location is a generic Dutch landscape where the creation of polders, manipulating the previous landscape process before the input of mankind. In this particular case the site is situated in a location that is under pressure from adjacent urban settlement. The current uses are primarily agricultural, with a strong desire to move onto a post-agricultural programme. IDEOLOGY Our approach is one of reason and ingenuity. We have applied elasticity, a conceptual yet conceivable wash to 'all-scapes' with the potential to return to an aquiline status. Rivers and canals were at one time the cause for conception of urbanism, central veins in the anatomy of maturing city form. Today, in an artificial hinterland where we have erased the groundwork of Mother Nature and torn away the tracts of pure life force, we are turning the situation back on itself. Insideout-ism if you like. Waterways, once a lifeline for trade, food and transportation are now nothing more than a backdrop, a desirable stage set to bring the urban dweller closer to nature, It is a desirable location for all the wrong reasons. Nemo knew. In 1868 Jules Verne created a scientist with a bitter taste in his mouth. The human race in the time of Nemo had no respect for the oceans, and he, the captain of the sea waged war on their ignorance. Perhaps it is time to de-polder the polders. To respect and work with the forces of nature. In order to understand we have turned to a time before Nemo when ice sculpted and tore at the earth, when the landscape was consumed by a surface with a power equal to that of today's urban frontier and its entropic wake. To disable the problems we intend to recreate or rather 'trigger' natural processes, allowing the cycle to evolve and succeed independently, dissolving the undesirable as these cycles gather momentum rather than obliterating in urgency. Intense drainage is causing the level of the polders to drop, this leads to the level of surrounding water to exist at a very different level to the surrounding plain of seawater. River water as sea levels rise is finding it more and more difficult to make its sacred journey to the sea. Meanwhile the soil in 1/5th of the Netherlands is drying out. Ok, the situation is not perfect. The balance is well and truly off. In winter months rainwater is drained quicker than you can say Jack Frost and in the summer, so short is the supply of drinking water that at one time the Dutch government thought of importing from Norway. Our approach as Landscape Architects is neither strictly ecological. Commercial, cultural, historic or political rather a desire to create lucid 'jackpots' in a lather of urbanism that is neither meat nor fish. We are not as naive to recreate idyllic 'new' and manufactured landscapes but rather set in place interventions for the future, elaborating on traces of what once existed re-establishing memory and identity. Return to a condition where the power of nature is witnessed in its primordial state, it is then that we can intervene as process 'facilitators'. Manipulating programme to work with the omnipotent cycles rather than attempting to resist the will of nature, redefining a new unpredictable situation where the urbanite exists symbiotically with his neighbours.