Drawings
Newcastle Speculative Mapping
This series of digital works operates as a speculative investigation into spatial narratives, employing storytelling as an architectural agency through which alternative readings of the waterfront emerge. Rather than representing fixed conditions, the images trace the waterfront’s evolving cultural and physical morphologies, revealing how civic identity is continually reconfigured through layered temporal, socio-economic, and cultural forces. These visual translations do not document the waterfront as a stable entity, but as a contested and shifting terrain shaped by memory, use, and transformation over time.
Acknowledgement: The work is a part of a submitted paper titled 'Water Justice and Waterfront' done in collaboration with Irene Perez Lopez. The paper will appear in the research section once published.
Depiction of Pre-colonial waterfront, showing the sandy islands, shifting sands against the original shoreline as well as richly vegetated land.
Depiction of Colonial waterfront, showing the port activities, railways and coal shoots; and early residential, commercial, worship settlements.
Depiction overlaying current gentrified developments of the waterfront with further dredged and constructed shoreline with precolonial (sandy islands) and colonial.
Depiction of future flooding predictions over waterfront and extended inland regions, most shoreline and Carrington submerged.
