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Gert-Jan Stam
Gert-Jan Stam has a background in visual arts and theatre and is currently mostly interested in ‘multispecies cocreation’. He is co-founder of the transdisciplinary arts collective TAAT. Their practice is rooted in the interplay between architecture and theatre, which has evolved to creating ecosystems of encounter, shifting between artistic research, social practice and regenerative learning.…
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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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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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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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Kevin Frediani
Kevin Frediani is Operation Manager for the National Trust in Angus, leading the stewardship of some of the region’s most treasured historic and cultural sites. Previously her was Curator of the Botanic Garden and Head of Grounds at the University of Dundee. His research interests explore how spaces become places imbued with emotion through the…
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Vättern
Lake Vättern is Europe’s sixth largest lake. Their water is cold and nutrient-poor, creating great underwater visibility. Twenty-eight fish species call Vättern their home. Some of them thrive, and some of them are facing hard times due to rising water temperatures linked to climate change. The lake is also home to seven very rare species of small crustaceans that...
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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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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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Anna Chmiel
Anna Chmiel is a painter, multimedia artist, and key member of the Rivers Sisters collective from 2019. She seamlessly combines art with activism for nature, especially rivers.
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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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Carolijn Terwindt
Dr. Carolijn Terwindt (1979) is a lawyer, cultural anthropologist, author, and artist who joined the Embassy of the North Sea in 2021 to explore the possibility of creating a European network to strengthen the cultural transformation towards a real participation of nonhumans in politics.
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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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Pietro Consolandi
Pietro Consolandi is a researcher and artist based in Venice, he is founder of the Barena Bianca collective. He is OCEAN / UNI Research Lead at TBA21–Academy, and a Research Fellow at NICHE.
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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…
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Aleksandra Velimanović
Aleksandra Velimanović, master in the field of integrated management of natural resources, has been in the civil sector for 25 years, and since 2006 one of the founders and members of the citizens’ association “NIMBUS” from Loznica.
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Cecylia Malik
Cecylia Malik is is visual artist and environmental activist. She is part of the Save the Rivers Coalition. She is the author and the leader of the nationwide social campaign and collective ‘River Sisters’.
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Rita Bellomo
Rita Bellomo is a former High School teacher. She is still working in the educational field as volunteer, planning and scheduling lessons and activities for the local Free Adult University operating in an area which comprises five municipalities. Next to that, she runs Italian language courses for immigrants, cooperating also with organisations which take care…
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Piave
When the river Piave finally reaches the plain, just past Vidor bridge, it spreads widely across the area named ‘Grave di Ciano’ (Ciano Riverbeds), which comprises about 940 hectares of river ecosystems and represents a still intact biodiversity oasis of stunning beauty. Thanks to the rare species and habitats it hosts, the site is included in the 2000 Nature...
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Rosa Jijón
Rosa Jijón is an artist, activist and cultural mediator, former director of the CAC (Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito), CAC. She has participated in various international exhibitions.
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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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Genova waters
Stretched between sea and mountains, Genova has developed in length (with its approx. 35 km, it is one of the longest cities in Italy) and is crossed by over 70 streams, rivulets and brooks that have been "buried" for urban and industrial reasons since the Middle Ages. The water bodies of this area, a complex, living and transcultural port...
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Odra
Actions of the Odra Tribe The greatest ecological disaster of contemporary Europe (as the European Parliament called it) took place in 2022, when 65 million mussels, 147 million snails, and 82 to 122 million fish died. The estimated weight of the dead is 1,650 tons. In response to this, the Odra tribe was formed. We…
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Xandra van der Eijk
Xandra van der Eijk is a Dutch artist and researcher, interested in the fluid, networked actors that constitute waterbodies. Using a distinct artistic methodology, they provide material experience-driven approaches to imagining and understanding ecological networks. In 2019, Xandra founded and developed the first MA in ecological art in the Netherlands at Avans University of Applied…
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Spree
In the context of the climate crisis and the accompanying social change, SpreeBerlin explores the relationship between Berlin and the Spree. How can the river be given its own “political“ voice and what can help create more awareness about the Spree and the influence of humans? The Spree suffers from sewer overflows, unfavourable river architecture, use of the waters...
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Venice Lagoon
The city of Venice rises from the waters of the Mediterranean’s largest lagoon, an ecosystem that has balanced between natural instability and human-made adaptations throughout centuries, with early hydraulic interventions dating as far as 1400 AD. The lagoon provides essential ecosystem services, from acting as a natural carbon sink to sustaining biodiversity, alleviating floods and storms, and allowing multiple...
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Martin Hultman
Martin Hultman, Associate Professor at the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, is widely published in energy, climate, and environmental issues in a variety of journals and more than ten books. His work has been translated into seven languages. Hultman leads three research groups analyzing ‘masculinities and energy’, ‘rights of nature’, and ‘climate change denial’. He…
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Nils Richterich
Nils Richterich is a sociologist based at the research training group “Fixing Future” (University of Frankfurt am Main), where he works on more-than-human sociology of inequality, environmental sociology, and Science and Technology Studies (STS). In his dissertation, he investigates the question of what is required to establish different forms of the rights of nature.
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Emma Montlake
Emma Montlake is the Director of Casework at Environmental Law Foundation and the grassroots legal support lead with a focus on the Rights of River.