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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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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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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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Philip Stoll
Philip Stoll (1988) is a visual artist working with the themes of attention and witnessing. Over the last 15 years he has been working with his meditative walking practice in diverse natural environments. As a way of investigating the invisible qualities of nature he worked in Europe, Russia, the north pole, North America and the…
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Francesco Martone
Francesco Martone is chair of the Assembly of Judges of the International Tribunal on the Rights of Nature and co-founder of the artistic research platform A4CArtsforthecommons.
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Eduardo Salazar Ortuño
Eduardo Salazar Ortuño is a public interest Environmental Lawyer and Administrative Law Adjunct Professor at the University of Murcia (Spain).
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Amalia Rossi
Born in Pavia and raised in the same city, in the Borgo Ticino district, along the banks of the Ticino “blue river”, Amalia Rossi is a Fellow Researcher at THE NEW INSTITUTE – Center for Environmental Humanities (NICHE) at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and a member of the working team of the Venice…
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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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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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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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Léa Corbière
Léa Corbière grew up on the shores of Mediterranean Sea in the south of France. She has a master’s degree in transdisciplinary political science on risk management and adaptation to climate change and a master’s specialising in environmental law from the universities of Paris: Panthéon-Sorbonne and Panthéon-Assas. She works on pesticide risk regulation and, more…
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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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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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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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Teresa Conesa
Teresa Conesa is part of the citizen movement Banderas Negras, later constituted as an association Alianza Mar Menor ( AMARME ) and a member of the promoters of the ILP of the Mar Menor.
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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.
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Mar Menor
The Mar Menor is a 135 km2 coastal lagoon in the southeastern region of Murcia in Spain. It is the largest saltwater lagoon in Europe, separated from the Mediterranean Sea by a strip of land called La Manga del Mar Menor. The Mar Menor is in a severe state of eutrophication due to the nutrients it receives, mainly from...
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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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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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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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Diplomatic suitcase
Diplomatic suitcase Water is vital for all life on Earth, yet the voices of water are rarely heard in political decision-making. Born out of growing water challenges and demands for water democracy worldwide, the Confluence of European Water Bodies sprang from a collective pursuit of a deeper understanding of the ‘Rights of Nature’ in Europe.…
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Thomas Rammelt
Thomas Rammelt is the co-founder and managing director of the Doggerland Foundation. He started as a barrister in the field of nature, environmental, construction and spatial planning law.
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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.