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Confluence of European Water Bodies 2026
How can we live with water differently? From 3–6 September 2026, the River Spree will host the fourth Confluence of European Water Bodies in Berlin. For four days, rivers, lakes, lagoons, glaciers, seas, and wetlands from across Europe will gather to explore a set of shared questions: How can we learn to live with water…
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GARN EU Hub x Confluence of European Water Bodies:
Rights of Nature Case Dialogue. A plunge into the river Reuss
We invite ecologists, lawyers, philosophers, artists, designers, and activists to join the first online GARN EU Hub x Confluence of European Water Bodies Rights of Nature Case Dialogue. A plunge into the river Reuss on May 7, 2026, at 7:30 pm. Reuss Initiative This online dialogue spotlights the Reuss Initiative —a pioneering popular initiative (and…
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The Diplomatic Suitcase travels to Slovakia
The Diplomatic Suitcase—the Confluence’s traveling exhibition— has journeyed to Galéria Jána Koniarka in Trnava, Slovakia, as part of the exhibition ´Contracts of Recognition´, curated by Lucia Bergamaschi & David Přílučík, on view until May 31, 2026. ´Contracts of Recognition´ depart from a set of intertwined questions: How can alliances be imagined beyond the human? What…
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Watch the short film of Confluence #3!
The third annual Confluence of European Water Bodies took our journey to Amsterdam and Bergen aan Zee. Taking place from 21 – 24 September 2025 and hosted by the Embassy of the North Sea, the 2025 Confluence brought together water bodies from all across Europe and beyond to gather, think, create, and strategize in workshops,…
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River Rights, Living Laws
How water can help us imagine life otherwise
Article by Katarina Rakušček “One way to stop seeing trees, or river, or hills, only as ‘natural resources,’ is to class them as fellow beings—as kinfolk. I guess I’m trying to subjectify the universe, because look where objectifying it has gotten us. To subjectify is not necessarily to co-opt, colonize, exploit. Rather it may involve…
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Looking back at the Confluence of European Water Bodies 2025
A river is a gathering that seeks the sea. A confluence is the moment we begin to move together. The Confluence of European Water Bodies 2025, taking place in Amsterdam and Bergen aan Zee and hosted by the Embassy of the North Sea, brought together representatives of water bodies to imagine, discuss, and strategize on…
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Circling thoughts around Human-nature-water: Confluence 2025
Interview with Leon Lapa Pereira
When artist and curator Leon Lapa Pereira was conducting research on termites at V2_ Lab for Unstable Media in Rotterdam a few years ago, everything suddenly fell into place. He noticed how innovatively and sophisticatedly termites build their tunnel systems, collecting sand, soil, and saliva from various sources to reinforce the tunnels. He also saw…
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Confluence of European Water Bodies 2025
Full Programme
When two or more rivers meet in a landscape, they flow together and continue as one body of water: they ‘confluence’. From 21 to 24 September 2025, representatives of more than 35 European seas, lakes, rivers, wetlands, lagoons, and glaciers will confluence in the Netherlands. The Confluence 2025 is a growing interdisciplinary community of water…