Rivers generate fertile land for raw construction materials and agriculture. Mark Minkjan contemplates the intertwined histories of agriculture, clay and brickmaking along the Rhine River, and how extractive practices have shaped both the built environment and the riverine landscape. He contrasts destructive industrial processes with emerging regenerative approaches in farming and architecture that aim to restore ecosystems and foster cyclical relationships with water, soil and materials. 

Mark Minkjan is a geographer and architecture critic who writes, does research and makes publications in the form of books, exhibitions and conversations. He sees spatial habitats as products of cultural and material histories, and as carriers of possible futures.