Her Majesty and the Bather Part 1 Project 2020 Jonathan Lettmann University of Plymouth | UK In the context of an ever-changing waterfront, Coxside (Plymouth) is in a state of transition from industry and labour, to leisure and residential developments. With the introduction of the programmatic protagonists – the boat and the bather – this project seeks to manifest itself as a space of social interaction and discussion, leisure and industry, self-expression and emergence. Moreover, a place of equitable access and use of space and territory.Boat breaking and bathing are here seen as processes, both with the objective of setting up a place to informally challenge questions of norms, citizenship, and power. Just as the boat is surveyed, dismantled and subsequently repurposed, the human body is figuratively pulled apart removing itself from idealised body standards by moving through thresholds of light and shadow, cold and heat as well as differing water settings stimulating a process of self-awareness parallel to notions of privacy and exposure setting up the becoming of a collective through social interaction. On their journey throughout the project, the two protagonists produce a new space and as they collide they enable a new field to emerge – always complex, always in flux and never linear. Tutor(s) Andrew Humphreys