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The Waterbodies orchestra
The Water Bodies Orchestra This digital design project is a musical and embodied way to unlock the digital sound archive of European waters. Through interactive group experiences, the human and non-human voices of the water bodies will come together in a performative moment. The Water Bodies Orchestra will be rehearsed and performed for the first…
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Online press confluence 26 September 2024
The Confluence of European Water Bodies will hold an online press confluence 26 September 2024 from 10:00 – 11:15. This online session will give insight in the foundation, aims, visions and methods of the Confluence of European Water Bodies and offers press and researchers the opportunity to ask questions. Several European water bodies will be…
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Christine Sponholz-van Leeuwenstijn
Christine Sponholz-van Leeuwenstijn is a legal translator and student of Intuitive Interspecies Communication (IIC). She has dedicated her work as a translator to translating academic, journalistic, and non-fiction texts for the German-speaking markets that challenge anthropocentrism and human exceptionalism and offer alternative approaches to help navigate the socio-ecological challenges of our time. Christine is currently…
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Leon Lapa Pereira
Leon Lapa Pereira joined the Embassy of the North Sea in 2023 as producer of the project Designing Self representation of water bodies in Europe. He is a cross-disciplinary performance researcher who develops experienceable ecologies between humans and more-than-humans.
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Seine
‘The Seine is like a person,’ dreamed Prévert in 1957. Since 2020, the Seine Guardians collective has been working to turn this poem into a collective project. Opposing the anthropocentric view of life and its extractivist practices, the Seine Guardians collective defends a bioperspectivist view of the river, respecting the intrinsic value of nature. At…
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Anna Daneri
Anna Daneri is an independent curator. She curated the exhibition "Nothing is lost. Art and Matter in Transformation" (2022–2022) with Lorenzo Giusti at GAMeC - Bergamo. She was one of the founders of Peep-Hole, Milan.
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Emilie Reuchlin
Emilie Reuchlin is the co-founder and managing director of the Doggerland Foundation. She is a marine biologist and political scientist with 15 years of experience in marine conservation in the international North Sea.
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Tatuli Japoshvili
Tatuli Japoshvili is a visual culture researcher, curator, and transdisciplinary artist. Employing the atlas as a methodology for trans-historical mapping, her practice bridges feminist psychoanalysis and image theory to investigate the affective behaviour of archives and built environments. Through writing and curation, she articulates a feminine dimension of subjectivity to nurture new frameworks for being-with the…
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Irish Sea and the River Liffey
“The River Liffey runs through the heart of Dublin as an enduring presence, shifting and layered. I don’t just represent the Liffey as a body of water, but as a living archive, a fluid witness to history, memory, and change. It holds within it the sediments of time—colonial trade routes, ancient crossings, ecological decline, whispered…
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Franco Nicoletti
Franco Nicoletti was born in Crocetta del Montello, on the very edge of the Grave di Ciano, an area which was a sort of natural playground for him and for a lot of his mates. After obtaining the Liceo Scientificio diploma, he started his career, first as an employee and then as an entrepreneur in…
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Pedro Luengo Michel
Pedro Luengo Michel is a biologist from the University of Murcia. His professional career began with environmental consultancy and in charge of a cheese laboratory.
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Dogger Bank
The Dogger Bank is a 25,000 km2 offshore submerged sandbank in the middle of the North Sea, designated as an EU Natura 2000 marine protected area. Despite its severely degraded state, the Dogger Bank is also called a breeding ground of the North Sea. It forms the heart of a network of marine protected areas needed and required to...
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Clare Cooper
Clare is an independent creative producer, working across the fields of culture, nature restoration and tourism. She is co-founder and co-director of Tayside’s ‘museum without walls’, the Cateran Ecomuseum and with her sister, operates Vanora’s Cottages. Previously a member of Alyth Community Council and a founding Director of the Alyth Development Trust, she also served on the Local Action…
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Giulia Della Marina
Giulia Della Marina, 62, is a social anthropologist who has been working in various countries in South America and Italy, fostering the self-determination of Indigenous peoples’ groups and organizations. She has also served for several years in Bosnia and Herzegovina within different international organizations dealing with mediation, peace-building, and the democratisation process in the immediate…
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Harpo ’t Hart
Harpo ’t Hart (1985) is a curator, sound designer and artist, studied piano at the Utrecht Conservatory, Media technology at Leiden University and Sound Studies at the Universität der Künste Berlin.
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Teresa Vicente Giménez
Teresa Vicente Giménez is Professor of Philosophy of Law. She is Deputy Director of the Center for Cooperation and Development Studies (CECODE) at the Universidad de Murcia.
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Andrea Muehlebach
Andrea Muehlebach is a Professor of Maritime Anthropology and Cultures of Water at the University of Bremen. She is the author of “A Vital Frontier: Water Insurgencies in Europe” and is currently involved in a book-length project on the rights of nature movement and its relation to what many proponents call “Earth Law.” Here, she…
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Carmen Haro Barba
Carmen Haro Barba holds a Ph.D. in Communication and Social Sciences and is a professor at Rey Juan Carlos University, where she was awarded the Special Doctoral Prize. She is an expert with the United Nations “Harmony with Nature” Program, where she helps promote international frameworks that incorporate the Rights of Nature. In Spain, she…
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Can the Piave still Murmur?
An assembly in Ocean Space for an in-depth discussion and a series of artistic elements centered on the case of the Grave di Ciano, an important area of the Piave river, protected by the Natura 2000 project but threatened by a potentially ecologically damaging climate adaptation project.
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Natalia Llorente Nosti
Natalia Llorente Nosti is a mother, biologist, technical translator and socio-environmental consultant. Throughout her professional career she has focused on the management of water resources and river ecosystems.
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Marie-Dominique Loÿe
Marie-Dominique Loÿe is a former teacher-researcher at École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Her scientific work was dedicated to geology, surface water, and atmospheric deposition chemistry in Corsica and around the Mediterranean Sea. She has been teaching on geology and “environment and society”. Now she is involved in environmental struggles in Corsica, especially in the defense…
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Julian Rainer Purrmann
Julian Purrmann is a research assistant in cultural anthropology at the University of Basel. During his studies, he has focused on questions concerning the inclusion of the voices, the signals, the interests and the agencies of the more than human world in democratic procedure and democratic innovations.
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Watch the video of the confluence 2024 in Venice!
From all over Europe, from Iceland to Poland and Sweden, and from Norway to Spain, to Serbia and the UK, representatives of Europe’s lakes, seas, rivers and glaciers confluenced for the second edition of the Confluence of European Water Bodies 2024 at Ocean Space, Venice. Over 50 academics, lawyers, artists, ecologists and policy makers gathered…
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Dobrosława Grzybkowska-Lewicka
Dobrosława Grzybkowska-Lewicka is a member of the Odra Tribe and Osoba Odra (the Odra Person) Foundation. She is a peaceful ecological activist involved in the process of recognising the rights of the Oder river / Odra in Poland, researching the unity of humanity as/with nature through experience, immersion, and becoming. She holds a PhD in…
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Anne Marie Flood
Anne Marie Flood is a market economist, experienced project manager for large EU projects, EU funds specialist and entrepreneur deeply involved in activities to save the Baltic Sea.
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Léon Gross
Léon Gross is an urban designer, artist, educator, and sustainability researcher working at the intersection of water, ecology, and spatial justice. His practice combines artistic research with questions of urban transformation, participatory knowledge production, and more-than-human relationships. As co-lead of the Berlin-based design and research studio Symbiotic Lab, he develops transdisciplinary projects on urban waters,…
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Thomas Fabre
Thomas Fabre is a PhD candidate in philosophy at Gustave-Eiffel University, under the supervision of Corine Pelluchon. He holds a master’s degree in philosophy from Panthéon-Sorbonne University and a master’s degree in environmental governance from AgroParisTech. Before that, he spent two years working for Nitidae, an NGO that promotes agroecological transition and combats deforestation in…
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Drina
The Drina river basin covers an area of 19,680 km² and extends over the territory of the three largest coastal countries: Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro. Pristine ecosystems, wetlands and alluvial forests are among the most important habitats in the Drina basin. They represent an important factor for habitat diversity and provide conditions and shelter for many species, and...
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Vinny Jones
Vinny's practice of sensory scenography is based on the recognition that it is through the whole sensing body that we perceive, experience, and are connected in the world.
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Wattenmeer
Wattenmeer The Wadden Sea (Wattenmeer) is the largest unbroken tidal mud flats system in the world and consists of an unusual and highly dynamic sedimentary coast that ebbs and flows as sand, debris, mud, soil, and marine materials are distributed and redistributed over and over by the waves, tides, and currents. It is one of…