Flooded London by Squint/Opera depicts "curiously utopian" vision of the city under water
Digital design studio Squint/Opera has reissued a series of speculative visualisations depicting London in 2090 when climate change has left much of the city under water.
The Flooded London series, first created in 2008, shows how citizens might adapt to catastrophic rising temperatures and sea levels.
Squint/Opera has reissued its Flooded London visualisations
"The world is currently standing on the verge of a potential climate catastrophe and therefore these images have become more relevant than ever," said Squint/Opera founding director Alice Britton, explaining why the studio has decided to reissue the images.
"Last month the UK became the first country to declare a climate emergency, and we felt it was the right time to revisit these images to help Londoners imagine how the seemingly abstract concept of climate change might affect their everyday lives, through familiar parts of the city." The images depict London in 2090
The images, which Squint/Opera describes as "curiously utopian", were initially created for a 2008 exhibition in London and depict a vision of the city in 2090.
One image shows a man dressed in swimming trunks, preparing to dive from the Whispering Gallery into the flooded nave of the abandoned and overgrown St Paul's Cathedral.
Another shows the south London suburb of Honor Oak, where a terrace of Victorian houses disappears beneath the floodwaters and a resident of one of the houses above the water line repairs his subma...
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