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Monument to Habitat Compen ESSAY TITLE 1 Image credit Monument to Habitat Compensation Island Marina Zurkow & Nancy Nowacek Texts by: Abdullah Al Saadi, Munira Al Sayegh, Nils Bubandt, Una Chaudhuri, Elaine Gan, Ayesha Hadhir, Graham McKay, Nancy Nowacek and Marina Zurkow Editor: Carol Stakenas Translation: Ban Kattan Design: Nancy Nowacek with Zinah Maher A Bazerbashi © 2019 the authors © All images copyright of their owners All rights reserved Monument First edition: Edition of 150 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-578-59961-8 to Printed by Bestype in the United States English typeset in Akzidenz Grotesk and Fig Habitat Arabic typeset in Helvetica Neue Arabic and Noto Sans Arabic Compensation Publisher: The Starlings [email protected] Island monumentisland.com Published with support from NYU Abu Dhabi and Stevens Institute of Technology Image overlay: Abu Dhabi and Habitat Compensation Island, Google Maps screenshot Cover Image: Billboard, Habitat Compensation Island 2019 Nancy Nowacek Table of Contents Realized Artificial Islands 8 Wikipedia Overview: Habitat Compensation Island 12 Monument to the Anthropocene 14 Marina Zurkow and Nancy Nowacek For the Birds 20 Graham McKay Give, and Take 26 Munira Al Sayegh Flip-Flop Island 28 Abdullah Al Saadi Refuge Island 30 Una Chaudhuri Our Identity Falls Within a Column 34 Ayesha Hadhir No Paradise is an Island 36 Nils Bubandt How To Make a Floating Island | How 40 | 41 To Unmake a Floating Island Elaine Gan Reference Images 46 Special thanks to Leigh Watts, Dain McParland, Jonathan Burt, Kevin Reid, Maya Allison, Clare Eayrs, Denise and David Holland, Maheen Pfeffer, Martin Pedersen, Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council, Environment Abu Dhabi, NYU Abu Dhabi, NYUAD Art Gallery, Stevens Institute of Technology, Carol Stakenas, Ban Kattan, Zinah Maher A Bazerbashi, and all the contributors: Abdullah Al Saadi, Munira Al Sayegh, Nils Bubandt, Una Chaudhuri, Elaine Gan, Ayesha Hadhir, and Graham McKay 8 wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artificial_islandsMONUMENT TO HABITAT COMPENSATION ISLAND ESSAY TITLE 9 Island City, Pampus hobar & Dhahran Tunisia Alaska Fukuoka REM Island King Salman Coast of Sfax Northstar Island Kansai Interna- Maasvlakte International Realized Artificial tional Airport Complex for Mar- United Arab California Marker Wadden itime Industries Kisarazu Island Emirates Tom Sawyer Coast line Kobe Airport Abu Dhabi Island Islands (as of 2019) Oman of Jeddah New Kitaky- Balboa Island Al Mouj Muscat Yas Island ushu Airport Treasure Island Sohar Port Singapore Al Lulu Island Nagasaki Airport Rincon Island Duqm Port Coral Island Khalifah Port Odaiba THUMS Islands Disputed Ontario Place Coast Islands Longxue Island Hong Kong Jurong Island East and Shipyard & Port Convention and Painuhama-cho Dubai Coast Guard Mischief Reef Dongjiakou Dock Panama Paradise Island West Island Shenzhen Bao’an Exhibition Centre Port Island Burj al-Arab Island Fiery Cross Reef Qingdao Linghai Barro 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HABITAT COMPENSATION ISLAND ESSAY TITLE 11 Habitat Compensation Image credit Island 12 MONUMENT TO HABITAT COMPENSATION ISLAND ESSAY TITLE 13 Habitat Compensation Island Google Maps screenshot detail Image credit 14 15 Overview: Habitat Compensation Island The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is situated on the Arabian Made from the bottom of the sea, this island was designed in Workers Peninsula which forms the Arabian Gulf, a region comprised of a C-shape, creating a shallow, interior lagoon intended as constructing islands and dunes, oil, and oases. It is a spatially compressed habitat for local marine flora and fauna. To encourage a new Habitat Compensation region, in which mountains, cement factories, deserts, skyscrap- community of non-humans, it was seeded with 350,000 Island, 2009 ers, and wetlands are all within a three-hour coastal drive. The mangroves. DPM also designed a vision plan to transform Arabian Gulf is home to important commercial fisheries, oil, and Habitat Compensation Island into an ecological preserve and gas reserves. education-focused destination. Abu Dhabi, the capital of the seven Emirates, is a natural An ambitious experimental project of marine engineering and archipelago of over 200 islands of varying sizes and states: environmental problem-solving, Habitat Compensation Island some are home to rare species of flora; some are densely itself is a monument to ecological optimism. At the moment developed. Many are human-made islands—including Habitat it remains an enigma on the seascape, and cargo ship workers Compensation Island. might wonder in passing about the little island with its bleached, blank billboards, and accumulating
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