| Summary: | "This map acts as a survival map from a speculated future, intended to guide unknown survivors of any number of potential disaster scenarios in which food is scarce. This map relies on the [viewer's] awareness of the (known/real) Svalbard Global Seed Vault (SGSV). The SGSV is both the focus of this map as well as a starting point for the project "The Cold Coast Archive," which was a collaboration between [Steven Rowell], Signe Lidén, and Annesofie Norn. This project was a series of investigations into and extrapolations from the broader meaning of a remote landscape of contingency and preparedness. Buried in a frozen mountainside on the arctic island of Spitsbergen and hardened to survive a nuclear assault, the SGSV (nicknamed the "Doomsday Vault") is the most robust seed vault in the world. It is designed to protect its contents—food crop seeds—from all imaginable worst-case climate change scenarios. Deep time, disaster planning, geopolitical speculation, and climate prediction are recurring themes for both the place and the project."--The artist.
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