10-11-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com

Living with the water: the Netherlands’ floating futures – photo essay

Photographer Alessandro Gandolfi’s project looks at how sustainable floating neighbourhoods in the Netherlands offer a way forward as the sea rises, by embracing the philosophy of meebewegen: learning to live with the water“A pitiful land, flooded twice a day,” was the verdict of the Roman savant, Pliny the Elder, of a region where “wretched peoples living in huts” must battle perpetually to resolve the question of “whether this region belongs to the land or t
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