10 of the world’s 16 terrestrial hermit crabs have been found to use artificial shells instead of gastropod shells to protect their non-calcified abdomen.

The human scavages for its home within the junkyards located on ‘The River-bank’, the estuary of the River Adur in the coastal Sussex town of Shoreham-by-Sea. Created by residents as stores of found objects, these junkyards embody the boundary between land and sea, where national building guidance is blurred. Without building regulations, creative residents take the opportunity to store and upcycle found objects into the structural and aesthetic materiality of their house-boats.

The Pagurus Bernhardus (Hermit Crab) scavages for its shell within the junk-yards. A periodical abandoning of shell as the crustacean grows makes them vulnerable and defenceless.

Can an expandable and intersectional form, between human and non-human, offer a great chance of survival?