Speculative Future Wetlands

Join Hester Buck (Cardiff University) and Dr Rowan Jaines (University of Sheffield) for a Speculative Futures Workshop that focuses on the Fen landscape in the East of England.

The Fen landscape in the East of England is often called "the breadbasket of Britain" because it is home to over 50% of England’s grade 1 agricultural land and produces a fifth of the nation’s crops and a third of its vegetables.

It is an entirely unnatural landscape and, in the face of intensifying climate change, the design of the current iteration of this landscape may have reached the end of its lifecycle.  The Fen region at the forefront of climate change, whilst simultaneously managing issues such as sea level rise, drought, and flood risk. The Fen landscape also contain pockets of rural deprivation and social issues associated with a challenging infrastructure.

This workshop will use a "more-than-human" perspective to bring together a range of practitioners and researchers to interrogate potential futures for the Fen landscape through creative prompts, speculative mapping and co-production.