The Distant; Unsettled Land in Britain
Georgia Hablutzel, MArch (Year: 5)
Today, the reality of an eroding coastline reveals the dichotomy between the productive and non-productive image of Britain. It is assessed through conservation frameworks and maintained through private ownership of land. The Distant is an organisational framework to reveal the hidden conflict of production along coastal regions through time. As a tool of landscape conservation, it puts conditions of land through a timely process of destabilisation- where the individual can be framed within spaces they would never usually access. Spaces of production become blurred by the passer by as they are no longer occupied by one from of exchange.
The Project provides a framework to challenge the Single Farm Payment subsidy for agricultural land along British coastlines. The proposal of a 12 Acre Right of Way Agreement destabilises landowners receiving subsidies for the ownership of large stretches of private land. The framework imagines the accumulation of subsided land, redirecting funds to individual maintainers of the landscape. By enabling the publics right to roam over private land, a new gravel path audibly marks a new public territory. Within the distant, the 12 Acre Right of Way Agreement wishes to reshape our image of the countryside.

The shifting coastline between British Landmass and the North Sea draws our attention to the production of an image.

Three sheep graze a subsidised field held on a private estate prohibiting public access to hundred of acres of supposed farmland.

Agricultural land under the single payment scheme can still qualify for the same subsidies as it was first registered despite the loss of land

Site Plan

12 Acre Right of Way Agreement; Deed of Dedication

Access Diagram

Framework 001/13

Framework 004/13

Framework 005/13

Framework 011/13

Framework 012/13
