Urban Plunge: New Designs for Natural Swimming In Our Cities

Urban Plunge: New Designs For Natural Swimming In Our Cities curated by Jane Withers for Wonderwater.

A panel discuss the capital’s waterway and ask will we soon be swimming in the Thames again? Exploring what it takes to make the river a leisure space and how design can develop an urban retreat.

Free Talk / Seminar
Chelsea Design Quarter
6 – 8pm
15 September 2014
020 7610 9503
http://www.rocalondongallery.com

Roca London Gallery,
Station Court
Townmead Road
SW6 2PY

Accompanying the exhibition Urban Plunge, a notable panel discuss the capital’s waterway and ask will we soon be swimming in the Thames again? Exploring what it takes to make the river a leisure space and how design can develop a natural urban retreat.

Urban Plunge
11 September – 10 January 2015
Urban Plunge explores both existing schemes and future visions for river swimming in the heart of our cities.

Commissioned by Roca London Gallery, it showcases international design and architectural projects that transform urban rivers into public leisure spaces, giving people an exciting new, water-level perspective on their metropolis.

Curator Jane Withers, a design consultant and co-founder of Wonderwater, has selected five key projects to illustrate architecture and design’s role in radically changing river usage, challenging our attitude to the urban water environment.

LDF listing here.
Image from LDF website.