A Year Along the Banks, DOCKS COLLECTIVE
2021-2022




Daniil Taranov (25) poses for a portrait after working for the THW in Altenahr. The building contractor from Groß-Gerau volunteered in the flood area for four days and pumped out the cellar: "I've never seen anything like it. Many citizens just talk and do nothing. But I really want to do something that is my demands on myself ". Altenahr, July 23, 2021








stores in the city center were destroyed, the water was up to three meters high. Euskirchen, July 16, 2021

















A Year Along the Banks – DOCKS Collective project
Between Tuesday, July 13, and Thursday, July 15, 2021, more than about twice the amount of rainfall expected for the entire month of July fell in parts of the western German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia - causing major rivers to burst their banks and sweep away entire villages.
Studies will need to be done to determine whether or not these floods would have taken place without climate change. But scientists say it is safe to assume that it wouldn’t have rained so much, for so long, without the warming of the planet. Warmer air can hold more moisture and Germany’s average temperature has risen by more than 2°C over pre-industrial times.
The effects of climate change, which for people in Central Europe only had an impact on faraway countries, has now also arrived in Germany.
Joint project of Arne Piepke, Maximlian Mann, Aliona Kardash, Fabian Ritter and Ingmar Björn Nolting
Publications:
ZEIT MAGAZIN (October 14, 2021)












DIE ZEIT (July 22, 2021)


TIME Magazine (July 19, 2021)


TIME Magazine online













