IDFA 1989
Een zaak van niveau
A Matter of Level
Louis van Gasteren
Netherlands
1989
n.a.
Undealt with past...
Does this people realize what is going on?
The man that one thousand years ago drained a bog in order to live and work in it, built his house on thick water. He started an unforeseen and irreversible process: the compacting of the soil. The balance between water and land was upset once and for all.
All the data from this process have been stored in the computer programme : Spade Protection And Decision Engineering. Spade answers questions, gives conclusions, and looks for the essence of the problem. The Dutchman is forced to keep muddling on, for there is no return possible. A problem with geopsychiatric aspects.
These people know about water in a silent, deep way: hovering on the zero line of the Amsterdam ordnance datum.
Does this people realize what is going on?
The man that one thousand years ago drained a bog in order to live and work in it, built his house on thick water. He started an unforeseen and irreversible process: the compacting of the soil. The balance between water and land was upset once and for all.
All the data from this process have been stored in the computer programme : Spade Protection And Decision Engineering. Spade answers questions, gives conclusions, and looks for the essence of the problem. The Dutchman is forced to keep muddling on, for there is no return possible. A problem with geopsychiatric aspects.
These people know about water in a silent, deep way: hovering on the zero line of the Amsterdam ordnance datum.
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