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Temporal Mapping

At Phalasarna, the ancient harbour now sits stranded above the sea, lifted out of the water by the great earthquake of AD 365. This lab works across colliding timescales:

  • the slow deep time of Quaternary fossils near Balos

  • the instantaneous rupture of a single seismic event

  • the layered human time of Venetian Chania

  • the contested memory held in Melidoni Cave

Scientists bring tools for dating and sequencing the past, and artists bring ways of compressing, stretching and narrating it. Together, participants ask how to visualise change that is both catastrophic and imperceptibly slow, and how mapping the past might change how communities picture their climate futures.

Lab Participants

Learn more about this labs participants by clicking on their image. Many of the researchers and partners work on several labs, and these connections are shown below. 

Lab Journal and Updates

Throughout the lab, researchers, artists and partners reflect on their involvement in the project. View and follow lab updates here in the form of our shared lab journal. 

Seeing through different lenses, Phytography and Geoparks

22/10/26

Fieldwork

Rose Butler

Author

Seeing through different lenses, Phytography and Geoparks.
Psiloritis, a newly excavated site of a Minoan palace at Zominthos, Ideon Cave the birthplace of Zeus.

Discussing messiness

21/10/26

Artist Notes

(Zillah) Butler

Author

Group discussion on failure, messiness, form.

Gortyn and Lake Zaros...and what is lake coring anyway?

21/10/26

Update

Mark Kasumovic

Author

Visiting Gortyn and Zaros Lake to learn about ancient civilisations and lake coring.

Entanglements in Crete week 1

20/10/26

Fieldwork

Louise Fedotov-Clements

Author

Day 1
Chainospilios Cave and sights on route

Discussing narratives and dominant historical narratives

20/10/26

Fieldwork

(Zillah) Butler

Author

Knowledge building and not knowing

Lab journal content not yet available, but will be added after the lab start dates. 

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