Flooding Mechanisms is an AA Landscape Urbanism Design Thesis by Silvia Ribot, Lida Driva, Dimitra Bra. The project proposes a new design approach towards Water Management Policies in Europe and specially the North of Spain and intersects social and geo-morphological formations to intervene and produce new productive and political entities that make use of microflooding to design alternative scenarios of river and agricultural landscapes.

The main objective of this project is to perceive the river as a “living” mechanism that through avulsion processes can create productive grounds for territorial, social and environmental formations. This can be generated along an ever changing system of water management, exploiting the po­tentials of flooding.

The development pressure that is imposed to riparian landscapes due to their potential in agricultural productivity is directly reflected in the water management policies that rule each territory. Could a new water manage­ment policy be a territorial praxis that, by challenging the natural river dynamics, would create a resilient yet productive ground for social and morphological prosperity of the landscape?

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Team: Silvia Ribot, Lida Driva, Dimitra Bra.