Dredging
/2023
Narative Design / Video Production
The development of technology is often told as a single, linear trajectory—disconnected from the lineages of the people who have brought it into being. Framing technology as “the active human interface with the material world,” this video work, Dredging, reflects on the relationship between people and technology along the coastline of The Hague, Netherlands. Once a boundary to be crossed in the pursuit of geopolitical and economic ambition, the coastline has, through this technology, been transformed into a site where the delicate rhythms of the local ecosystem are being reshaped. Institutional archives often lead researchers toward a coherent narrative. Yet when we understand technology as a pattern of human actions unfolding over a long span of time, historical moments begin to weave a different story.