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5th Studio is pleased to support the release of North Sea Continuum, a video installation presented at the 2025 Porto Design Biennale — TIME IS PRESENT. Designing the Common, by Nabi Agzamov, a doctoral researcher based at 5th Studio, is presented at the Biennale as part of his ongoing research.

Through a series of cartographic collages, the work reframes the North Sea not as a body of water divided by nation-states, but as an interconnected transboundary region shaped by flows of water, ecology, infrastructure, and culture. It traces the region’s evolution, from the submerged landscape of Doggerland and the transboundary networks of the Hanseatic League to the industrialisation, extraction, and renewable transitions that define it today. 

North Sea Continuum draws on 5th Studio’s own investigations of the basin, including the “Stour City, The Enabling State” proposition for a new city along the River Stour, the “A 100-Mile Landscape from Oxford to The Wash” vision for a watershed-scale territory connecting Oxford to The Wash, and studies of the River Thames estuary exploring how design might operate as an instrument of connection, linking governance, ecology, and settlement across the watershed.

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