Set in the flooded historic seaside town of Southend-on-Sea in the year 2100, this project explores ideas of how we can interact with and maintain our seaside heritage once the function and landscape it is set within is lost.

Focusing on the Southend seafront and the world's longest pleasure pier, the project proposes redevelopment reusing existing built material resources to reconstruct a seaside heritage economy with the creation of the world's first parliament for non-humans. By embracing decay as a natural agent of change, reimagining our heritage as a material resource with long-established and enmeshed relationships with the natural world can enable heritage conservation to become an action within the natural temporal, geological and biological cycles that humanist heritage models of interventionist practices have historically removed it from.

The provision of the world’s first non-human parliament provides an opportunity to dialogically and experientially consider how posthumanist heritage conservation can help rebuild a more equitable relationship between humans and the natural world within a landscape changed by the very real impacts of anthropocentric climate change.