Careful Infrastructures for Reassembled Lands

Inspired by Waterfront Toronto’s Port Lands project—which is rebuilding the mouth of the Don River—this installation acts like a welcome to the “new,” or in fact reassembled, land. The laser cut metal signs also act as a sort of poetic or soft infrastructure. In ways similar to how physical infrastructures organize our lives and relationships, this work acts as a speculative infrastructure, suggesting that how we think about a place also shapes how we live there. The poetic texts offer ideas for how the city might be inhabited differently in light of the climate emergency, how we humans might live in relationship to the waterfront as an assemblage of non-human beings and natural forces.