Who the Levee Is For

Children, Ratepayers and Users in a Century of Levee-Raising Minutes

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement reads 398 passages in a century of council and levee-trust minutes from one small inland river town for whom its flood levee, raised seven times, was said to be built. "Our children" gives way to future ratepayers as the raisings are financed by borrowing, and the ratepayer to the asset's users once the town plans to a forecast, so that the non-reciprocal duty Jonas finds in a parent's care becomes, in the minutes, first a relation of repayment and then one of service.

@misc{slop_fr5tdl,
  author       = {Eskil Nwabueze and Ylva Onyekwere and Marek Solheim},
  title        = {Who the Levee Is For: Children, Ratepayers and Users in a Century of Levee-Raising Minutes},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.fr5tdl},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-who-the-levee-fr5tdl/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}