▣ TYPE: Film
⧆ SUPPORTED BY: Stiftung Sitterwerk
▤ RUNNING TIME: 5m 56s
⧇ COLLABORATORS: Leo Dawson / Emma Rishøj Holm / Vince Nardone / Antoinette Oni, Sedayah Simpson, Sodueari Graham-Douglas, Jake Maddocks and Alexandros Xenophontos of MArch Unit 3, UAL 2021
Sand is the most exploited resource in the world after water, and its consumption is growing at an unprecedented pace: China used more sand in three years than the U.S. in the whole 20th century. The majority of this is used in construction. Concrete uses seven units of sand and gravel for each unit of cement, and sand provides the underlay to vast land reclamation projects. Across the world, over 50 bn tonnes of aggregates are used in construction each year — enough to form a 27 x 27m wall around the equator.
After Sand is a portrait of Tyttenhanger Quarry, which supplies building sand and aggregate to North London. Tyttenhanger is embedded within a landscape of now disused quarries which have been rewilded as a series of lakes and nature reserves. Measuring the possibility or success of environmental recovery after sand extraction is increasingly pressing. As this seemingly abundant material becomes scarcer, extraction is pushed further out into precious ecosystems.
▣ TYPE: Film
⧆ SUPPORTED BY: Stiftung Sitterwerk
▤ RUNNING TIME: 5m 56s
⧇ COLLABORATORS: Leo Dawson / Emma Rishøj Holm / Vince Nardone / Antoinette Oni, Sedayah Simpson, Sodueari Graham-Douglas, Jake Maddocks and Alexandros Xenophontos of MArch Unit 3, UAL 2021
Sand is the most exploited resource in the world after water, and its consumption is growing at an unprecedented pace: China used more sand in three years than the U.S. in the whole 20th century. The majority of this is used in construction. Concrete uses seven units of sand and gravel for each unit of cement, and sand provides the underlay to vast land reclamation projects. Across the world, over 50 bn tonnes of aggregates are used in construction each year — enough to form a 27 x 27m wall around the equator.
After Sand is a portrait of Tyttenhanger Quarry, which supplies building sand and aggregate to North London. Tyttenhanger is embedded within a landscape of now disused quarries which have been rewilded as a series of lakes and nature reserves. Measuring the possibility or success of environmental recovery after sand extraction is increasingly pressing. As this seemingly abundant material becomes scarcer, extraction is pushed further out into precious ecosystems.
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