Project by Fern Sripongtanakul,
The project reimagines the future of the Rockaway Peninsula by working with the forces that are already reshaping it. Instead of trying to hold back rising seas and intensifying storms, it proposes to use them as agents of ecological regeneration. Through a series of coordinated aerial operations, aircraft release materials like cloud-seeding agents, coral nutrients, mycelium, and clay dust to support the breakdown of pollution and the growth of marine life. Abandoned infrastructure is repurposed as submerged scaffolding for coral reefs, activated by low-voltage currents and underwater sound systems. Rockaway becomes a testing ground for atmospheric design and long-term thinking, where hurricanes, flooding, and retreat are not failures, but conditions for new beginnings.
