A Metabolist Utopia in the Crisis of a Flooded Society.

This chapter offers a thoughtful reflection on the extreme condition of our future environment: the flooding of the world due to climate change and environmental abuse. Facing this emergency, our proposal seeks to investigate and speculate on one of the first floating cities experiments — the Metabolism of Kikutake’s Marine City (1958) — in order to propose a flexible and innovative floating typology and to propel insights about new floating ways of living. Imbued in a rising extreme “risk society”of a flooded world, or waterworld, we state the importance of the utopian speculation of the Metabolist movement as a provocative approach for investigating possible futures of the Anthropocene. © 2026