Anatomy of a beach

Around one-third of the world’s coasts are occupied by sandy beaches. A beach is an habitat and a space of mediation between land and sea, between the urban and the natural, between the fixed and the changing. The beach of the past, the present, and the future stores holds shares histories across most of the planet’s urbanized coasts. In the past, beaches were the result of sediment accumulation carried by rivers, streams, and wind. Increasingly, beaches are shaped by physical and metabolic changes directly or indirectly induced by human action. Their shape and size, the thickness and composition of their sediment, their views of the horizon, and even their inhabitants are conditioned by these impacts. In today’s Anthropocene context, beaches are also among the landscapes most intensely affected by global warming. The rising sea level will result in the disappearance of large areas of dry beaches along coastlines worldwide before the end of the century.

La Pineda beach, in the municipality of Vila-Seca, located in the Camp de Tarragona plain, within an imagined amphitheater open to the sea and surrounded by the Prades mountains, the Llaberia range, and the Mola de Colldejou, exemplifies these transformations—most notably, those driven by the Tarragona Port.

Curator: José Luis de Vicente
Dates: 10.10.2024 - 23.02.2025
Web: dissenyhub.barcelona/

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