Civic and Fluvial Symbiosis Part 1 Project 2024 Harriet King De Montfort University | UK The civic and fluvial symbiosis project aims to create a mutually beneficial coexistence of urbanity and river processes on the River Soar at Leicester’s Frog Island, a post-industrial ‘decayscape’.‘The Wasteland’, a riverside brownfield site, is proposed as a productive urban wetland, for testing local and national relationships with rivers and floodwater, with a focus on food security, sewage management and soft flood mitigation. The landscape will be strategically infiltrated by fluvial ebbs and flows amongst manmade interventions.The proposal enhances the existing social value of the site by improving leisure and learning infrastructure provision for the existing skater and gardener community. The local community and eco tourists will be joined by scientists who can be passively observed testing and innovating technologies onsite.A unique tectonic and climatic strategy has been developed responding to the existing site ruins and flood risks, keeping the site history contingent, whilst providing development, which is positively impacted by managed flooding, through flood mitigation for the neighbouring dwellings. In return, the river is filtered and protected from toxic urban runoff as an exchange of ecosystem services as a system of symbiosis. Tutor(s) Daniel Farshi Lucy Pengilley Gibb