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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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Jessica Ullevålseter
Jessica Ullevålseter is a visual artist, activist and musician. Her family lineage is of ancestral bonds to the Oslo area that date back more than 400 years. However, as a white Westerner, she cannot claim emotional and spiritual family bonds to the place.
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Os_lo Fjord
Oslo means Os-Lo: "the light place where the river meets the sea." It can also mean "Æs-LO": the gods' light place. Oslo is a water cycle that contains a 100 km long fjord, many rivers, sister lakes and forest clouds. From our human perspective, the cycle starts with a lake, e.g. Oslo city's drinking source, Maridalsvannet, a lake made...
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Looking back at the Confluence of European Water Bodies 2024
Modes of activism for nature protection 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…
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Vistula
There is a unique river in the heart of Europe, largely still free and wild, with a vibrant ecosystem – the Vistula, a European treasure. More than half of Poland’s area is in the basin of the Vistula, the longest river (1,047 km) in Poland. Despite the construction of dykes and regulatory structures along a stretch of several hundred...
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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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Erena Rhose
Erena Rhöse is a Māori woman native of Aotearoa (New Zealand) and living in Sweden. Erena is guardian of the tribal knowledge, a doctor of traditional Maori medicine, professor of Ecosophy at the University of Karlstad, Sweden.
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Watch the Confluence of European Water Bodies 2023 short film
The first Confluence of European Water Bodies took place in September 2023 on the shores of the Mar Menor, the first ecosystem with legal personhood in Europe. We weaved connectivity and collectivity with waters from Poland to Italy, from Sweden to France, from Serbia to Montenegro, to Germany and the UK. We mourned over lost landscapes…
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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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Nico Landsman
Nico Landsman (1955) formerly worked for the Province of Zeeland in water management and climate adaptation. He is inspired by Western Scheldt itself, philosophy, Western academic knowledge, Indigenous wisdom, and generations yet to be born. He is connected to the Earth Trusteeship Initiative, which triggered him to start Rights of the de Scheldt as a…
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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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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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Nuvola Ravera
Nuvola Ravera explores how emotions are influenced by objects and cultural traditions, aiming for harmony between nature and human-made environments. She collaborates with various experts and uses natural materials to create art pieces that examine the experience of care.
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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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Jakob Kukula
Jakob Kukula is a multidisciplinary creator, working in the fields of art, design, and music. Born and raised in Berlin, he is life-long influenced by the city’s thriving scenes.
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Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is the youngest sea on the planet and one of the world’s largest brackish waters. It is surrounded by nine states: Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Russia, with parts of Belarus, Czech Republic, Norway, Slovakia, and Ukraine in the drainage basin. More than 85 million people live in the Baltic Basin.
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Antarctica
Antarctic Rights is a pioneering global initiative dedicated to securing legal recognition and protection for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean as entities with inherent rights. Founded on the principles of Earth Jurisprudence and the Rights of Nature, Antarctic Rights advocates for a transformative approach to the governance of this unique region—one that places the needs…
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New Chapter Diplomatic Suitcase in Lisbon
From April 2 2025, the Diplomatic Suitcase will be exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) in Lisbon as part of the exhibition Interspecies. The Diplomatic Suitcase is the travelling exhibition of the Confluence of European Water Bodies, our European community with now over 25 grass roots activists, artists & academics representing Europes glaciers, seas, lakes, lagunes and rivers.…
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Mekhala Dave
Mekhala Dave is a lawyer & art academic based in Vienna. She is the ocean law and policy analyst/legal researcher at the TBA21–Academy and a doctoral researcher at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
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Snæfellsjökull
According to glaciologists, Snæfellsjökull is predicted to disappear by 2100. As a keystone citizen, Snæfellsjökull has wielded influence on weather, water, and land this past millennium. Snæfellsjökull has been an active contributor to landscape design, using its weight to carve valleys and fjords. Even the glacier's retreat has (in)formed rugged terrain. The most recent known eruption of Snæfellsjökull occurred...
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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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Maria Lucia Cruz Correia
Lucia is a water keeper, artist and the initiator of the Natural Contract Lab group. Since 2009, her work has reacted to the environmental crises of our times, weaving temporary and collaborative processes that are a living organism that keeps growing in kinship with rivers, resilient plants, trees and others.
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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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Duncan Rawson
Duncan Rawson is farming sector expert. He works for European Food and Farming Partnerships.
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Markus Schärli
Markus Schärli is the founder and first president of the association Rechtsperson Reuss who wants to empower the river Reuss by giving him constitutional rights and an own personality.
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Zenne river
Zenne is a river that starts under a willow tree, humbly seeping to the surface in a field held open by trees, trickling down the slope to be slowly joined by water from its many sources, like the roots of a tree in the village of Naast. Its body widens and meanders its way over 103 km to its...
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Anja Binkofski
Anja Binkofski is a Doctoral Candidate at the German Maritime Museum – Leibniz Institute for Maritime History in Bremerhaven, Germany. She studied Transcultural Studies (M.A.) at the University of Bremen, where she found her passion for Maritime Anthropology. This resulted in her Thesis: “Living with(out) the North Sea – Future Planning on the Halligen in the Age…
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Programme Confluence of European Water Bodies 2024
From 3 to 6 October 2024, the second edition of the Confluence of European Water Bodies will take place, an initiative of the Embassy of the North Sea, TBA21–Academy, and representatives of the ILP Mar Menor. After a successful first conference in 2023 on the shores of the Mar Menor, the first ecosystem in Europe…
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Ticino River
The Ticino River rises in the Alps of southern Switzerland and flows through northern Italy. It is the main tributary of the Po River and the second Italian river in terms of water flow. The river measures a total of 248 km in length and is considered one of the healthiest rivers in Italy. Here,…