Silt Sand Slurry: Dredging, Sediment, and the Worlds We Are Making

Silt Sand Slurry is a visually rich investigation into where, why, and how sediment is central to the future of America’s coasts. Sediment is an unseen infrastructure that shapes and enables modern life. Silt is scooped from sea floors to deepen underwater highways for container ships. It is diverted from river basins to control flooding. It is collected, sorted, managed, and moved to reshape deltas, marshes, and beaches. Anthropogenic action now moves more sediment annually than ‘natural’ geologic processes — yet this global reshaping of the earth’s surface is rarely-discussed and poorly-understood.

In four thematic text chapters, four geographic visual studies, and a concluding essay, we demonstrate why sediment matters now more than ever, given our contemporary context of sea level rise, environmental change, and spatial inequality. We do this through a documentation of the geography of dredging and sediment on the four coasts of the continental United States. The book explores the many limitations of current sediment management practices, such as short-sighted efforts to keep dynamic ecosystems from changing, failure to value sediment as a resource, and inequitable decision-making processes. In response to these conditions, we delineate an approach to designing with sediment that is adaptive, healthy, and equitable.

  • ISBN

    9781954081840
  • Title

    Silt Sand Slurry: Dredging, Sediment, and the Worlds We Are Making
  • Author

    The Dredge Research Collaborative
  • Publisher

    Applied Research + Design Publishing
  • Publication year

    2023
  • Binding

    Softcover
  • Language

    English

Silt Sand Slurry: Dredging, Sediment, and the Worlds We Are Making

Cite: "Silt Sand Slurry: Dredging, Sediment, and the Worlds We Are Making" 27 Apr 2023. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1000146/silt-sand-slurry-dredging-sediment-and-the-worlds-we-are-making> ISSN 0719-8884

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