Sensing Loss is a collaboration between Cement Fields, Floating University Berlin, and Three Rivers exploring ecological loss in three sites across the UK and Germany.

The project draws connections between locations in Berlin, Bexley, and North Kent, liminal spaces on the edges of urban expansion, where nature and industry intertwine. Infrastructure developments in these contested post-industrial landscapes are often presented as ‘green’ or sustainable, but commonly threaten the rich biodiversity and vast ecological, social, and cultural significance held in these sites. 

An international community exchange, the project brings together artists, activists, and communities to share lived experiences of environmental degradation caused by infrastructure and building projects in their local contexts through a hybrid programme of in-person and online events.

Exploring how artistic practice can provide tools and strategies for processing and challenging the loss of access and agency that arises in the face of sweeping changes, the programme opens up new perspectives grounded in international understanding and solidarity. By providing space to acknowledge, explore, and learn from loss it seeks to imagine new methods of resistance for communities, activists and artists facing similar challenges, and re-centre contested sites as places to nurture resistance, care, and learning.

Apply until 15th June

We are currently looking for participants to join Sensing Loss throughout the programme period.
We are seeking ten participants in total (5 in UK and 5 in Berlin) who are engaged with ecological loss, environmental change, and place-based practices in their local contexts.

You can now apply to become part of the programme.
The open call is open until 15 June 2026
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Download the flyer HERE and find more information about the open call and application process.
For more questions write to us via: sensingloss@floating-berlin.org

Cement Fields

Cement Fields is a visual art organisation working collaboratively with artists and communities to create ambitious new art along the Thames Estuary in North Kent. Our programme is an exploration of place and process, defined by the multiple shifting landscapes that stretch along the Thames from Dartford to Whitstable. It’s a place where boundaries blur, where busy urban centres sit alongside industrial sites, where waters slow in marshes and wetlands, and the major arteries of rivers and roads connect rural areas and seaside towns. 

We invite artists, participants and audiences to use North Kent’s unique contexts to ask radical questions and explore new ideas. Through this interaction we create experimental new art and develop imagination, skills and pathways into creative careers. 

Cement Fields is proud to be a National Portfolio Organisation, supported using public funding by Arts Council England, and the University of Kent. 

cementfields.org  
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cementfields/ 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CementFields/ 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cement-fields/

Three Rivers

Three Rivers is a community-led arts organisation exploring culture, class and climate in the London Borough of Bexley and a member of Arts Council England’s Creative People and Places programme.

Since 2021 it has supported thousands of people to become ‘mates with their place’ by imagining community and friendship beyond the human through long-term projects including Tump 39; where it is working with Thamesmead residents to reimagine a disused Victorian ammunitions dump as a new space for arts and ecology, and Beneath the Pavement, The Marshes; which brought artists and activists together with local environmental groups to campaign on behalf of Bexley’s threatened marshlands.

In 2025 Three Rivers became the first organisation in the UK to become a Zoöp and pioneer a groundbreaking model of collaboration between human and other-than-human-life. 

threeriversbexley.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/threeriversbexley/

Sensing Loss is funded by Cultural Bridge, which celebrates bilateral artistic partnerships between the UK and Germany through the collaboration between Arts Council England, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, British Council, Creative Scotland, Fonds Soziokultur, Goethe-Institut London and Wales Arts International / Arts Council of Wales. It continues the partnership forged between Cement Fields and Floating University Berlin through our previous Cultural Bridge funded, peer-to-peer exchange programme, Wetland.