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Mediterranean
A systemic and practical approach to preserving and restoring the Mediterranean. The Mediterranean has been an exceptionally biodiverse region for millennia. Today, countless species, including mammals, birds, fishes, amphibians, trees, plants, fungi, and other living beings, are facing predicted and already happening extreme climate change impacts and potentially devastating challenges to their existence. This is on top of the...
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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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Marijana Lemm
Marijana is one of the co-founders of Sentient, with a background in environmental activism, regenerative agriculture, and the establishment of Montenegro’s first eco yoga retreat.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Thijs Middeldorp
Thijs Middeldorp (1978) is co-owner of campaign and design agency Partizan Publik, director of the Amsterdam 4 and 5 May committee, curator of the Groningen Atelier aan de Middendijk, co-founder of energy cooperative Amsterdam Energie and board member of various cultural organizations.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Natasha Padbury
Natasha Padbury is the Sustainability Manager at the Depot cinema, with 15 years of experience coordinating community, cultural, health and wellbeing projects.
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Reuss
The Reuss is the river that characterises Central Switzerland. It flows from the Gotthard region in the canton of Uri to the north. Its water finally ends up in the North Sea. For a long time, its wild course in the region of origin was an obstacle to transport over the Gotthard Pass in the Alps. The crossing of...
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Duncan Rawson
Duncan Rawson is farming sector expert. He works for European Food and Farming Partnerships.
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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…