In Italy, he spoke about how it costs the people of Venice a lot of money to get rid of their trash (things like television sets or refrigerators) because of the canals. Since it costs so much, some of the people who live there will push their garbage into the canal itself. Every month, people scoop the mud from the bottom of the canal and put it in barges. Dion took the contents of a barge and sorted every object in the mud. He then took the contents of the mud and made it into a "treasure trove" by organizing them and displaying them in a "child like way." He put numbers by some of the objects, and naturally people expect there to be information coordinating with the number elsewhere, but there isn't. One of the things I really enjoyed about this display was that he left some objects completely covered in mud, others were halfway clean, and some were completely clean.
In London, he focused on the Temes River. The shore here is really rich in material that is rich in culture and archeology. Dion, and his group of volunteers would dig for four hours a day for an entire week. There were two dig sites; one was in Milbank, and the other was on Bankside. When the team was sorting the contents of what they found, they set up Indiana Jones like tents and divided them into subject matter. Everyday he gave a lunchtime lecture that was free to the people. When he built the display for the objects, he made a double sided cabinet. One side was for Milbank while the other was for Bankside. The cabinet was interactive, it had pull out drawers. The idea was to have the viewer find it themselves. There were specific organizational patterns per drawer so just when a viewer discovered a pattern, it changed. The idea was to give the viewer a link between past and self.
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