From an Asian perspective investigating coastal and deltaic urban futures, EC(h)OTONING emphasises the ways environmental and urban processes reverberate across space and time. It highlights how interventions in one location often return elsewhere as unintended consequences, while drawing attention to the continuous adjustments through which humans and nonhumans respond to changing conditions.

The Campus explored these dynamics through four interconnected lenses: FLOW—tracing movements of water, sediment, debris, people, and infrastructures; FLOAT—examining amphibious adaptations, mobility, and shifting relationships between land and sea; FIX—investigating attempts to stabilize dynamic environments through engineering, governance, and coastal protection; and FERAL—attending to emergent ecologies and forms of life that persist beyond human control and planning.

This exploration helped illuminate what the project describes as (thick edges)—not fixed boundaries between city and nature, land and water, or urban and rural, but densely entangled zones where ecological, hydrological, infrastructural, political, and cultural processes intersect. In places such as Baan Khun Samut Chin, these intersections become visible in everyday experiences of erosion, adaptation, displacement, and resilience.