Floating Pool on the Move activates Sydney Harbour, offering bathing opportunities for all. A floating pool, pulled by a tug/barge moves up and down the harbour, docking at different locations at different times providing a highly desirable amenity for communities. At Rose bay for a few hours, then to Manly or Drumoyne or up to Parramatta the floating Floating Pool on the Move will provide programmed services for diverse communities, sharing its facilities with multiple socio economic groups.

The pool/s would be solar heated and sanitised without using chlorine. The surrounds of the pool combine a deck for relaxing and areas for native plants to grow for biodiversity and shade. An overhead canopy for shade is covered with solar panels, as is the tugboat/ barge. Under the pool ‘Living Seawalls’ monitored by SIMS (Sydney Institute of Marine Science’) provide habitat for marine organisms to thrive.

To step into a pool within the massive body of Sydney Harbour Water is like a pool within a pool…the possible anomaly of fresh or lightly saline water within salty tidal harbour water. Sitting on the pool edge enjoying the sun or shade and planting surrounds allow you to feel the buoyancy of being afloat. Inspired by the natural thermal outdoor pools in Iceland which function like a piazza - people socialise, meet friends, make business deals in the urban space of shared warm water.

At times the pool could be used for performances as environmentally responsive tidal art characterised by choreographed immersive performances: water dance, water music, water play.