Flensburg’s shorelines
The illustration of the Flensburg shorelines (Fig. 1) shown on the homepage of the Flensburg Postcolonial Network is a collaboration between Felisha Maria Carenage and Nelo A. Schmalen. It shows in stylised form the shorelines and embankments of Flensburg Port in three different historical phases, spanning the period from 1755 to the present day. The reconstructed, graphically overlaid shorelines, land reclamations and embankments from Schmalen’s master’s thesis were extracted by Carenage and changed in colour (Fig. 1). These lines were then visualised as part of the 𝔅𝔞𝔡𝔤𝔶𝔞𝔩 project 𝔈𝔩𝔢𝔤𝔦𝔢𝔰: 𝕡𝕠𝕤𝕥𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕠𝕟𝕚𝕒𝕝 𝕡𝕠𝕤𝕥𝕔𝕒𝕣𝕕𝕤, which was part of Felisha Maria Carenage’s postgraduate project at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design Kiel. The project took place in collaboration with the Flensburg Postcolonial Network and was funded by the Flensburg Cultural Office.
The text on our website explains in particular the background to the graphic of the shorelines, which has its origins in a comparative map analysis by Nelo A. Schmalen in her master’s thesis “(Post)Coloniality of the urban transformations at the Eastern Port in Flensburg”.
