Title & Author:

Water works : ecosocial design / Henriëtte Waal & Clemens Driessen (eds.) ; contributors Jon Ardern, Mari Bastashevski [and 62 others].

Publication:

Amsterdam : Valiz, 2025
©2025
[New York] : International distribution, USA/Canada/Latin America, D.A.P.

Description:

400 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references, index
Prologue: A taste of the river -- Introduction -- 1. Purity / Henriëtte Waal & Clemens Driessen ; Chemical forever / Ils Huygens ; Pastel dyeing: interview / Sandrine Rozier ; DIY estrogen & yogyakarta: interview / Mary Maggic ; Atelier LUMA: The Happy Algae Lab / Henriëtte Waal ; Toxic river pottery / Benedetta Pomplili ; Microbial bathhouse / Serina Tarkhanian -- 2. Wild / Henriëtte Waal & Clemens Driessen ; Beaver cultural centre for more-than-human ecosocial design / Clemens Driessen & Henriëtte Waal ; Eel park: interview / Thijs de Zeeuw ; Vislift: The making of fish-operated lifts: interview / John van Boxel & Rutger Schrijer ; Mussel sensor: Short film by Julia Pelka / Henriëtte Waal ; The needles of the Meuse: documentary by Moniek van de Vall & Kees van der Vooren / Clemens Driessen ; Wild fermentation / Henriëtte Waal ; Houtrust ; To flavour our tears / Center for Genomic Gastronomy ; Designing Niagara Falls / Clemens Driessen -- 3. Scale / Henriëtte Waal & Clemens Driessen ; Stories of reconnection: water design in bioregions / John Thachara ; Architects of water works: Snowballing the courage of imagination: interview / Eva Pfannes & Sylvain Hartenberg (Ooze Architects) ; Habiter en zone inondable: Living with rising water / Henriëtte Waal ; Regenerating the landscape of central-pivot irrigation: Technology, farming and restoration practices across the Great Plains: interviews with Roric Paulman, Billy Tiller & Kent O. Miller / by Janna Bystrykh ; Technodiversity in mango irrigation: Purification and pozas in northern Peru: Modern irrigation, stubborn trees / Carolina Domínguez-Guzmán ; Garden to cloud: interview / Zairah Khan ; Fake miniature waves ; Twelve little ditch-experts in Wickelhofpark / Ria Waal -- 4. Representation / Henriëtte Waal & Clemens Driessen ; River rights in practice / Mihnea Tǎnǎsescu ; Restoring neoliberal autoCAD rivers: interview / Rebecca Lave ; Listening to ice: interview / Susan Schuppli ; Eden X: A human-nonhuman conversation / Mariana & Joana Pestana ; Can tech make a river speak?: interview / Anab Jain & Jon Ardern (Superflux) ; Evros walk water: interview / Daniel Wetzel (Rimini Protokoll) ; Let's watsu / Henriëtte Waal ; Reeds, the Danube delta, and the making of the new man / Mihnea Tǎnǎsescu & Stefan Constantinescu ; Haug: A rainbow emitting sculpture / Brynjar Sigurðarson & Veronika Sedlmair ; Cartesian rainbows / Clemens Driessen ; Marvels of things created and miraculous aspects of things existing / Clemens Driessen
5. Violence / Henriëtte Waal & Clemens Driessen ; The song of the water tank / Esha Shah ; The water clock and the water thieves: interview / Ahmed Salem Dabah & Heidi Vogels ; Flint water / Mari Bastashevski ; Water cannon warfare: Mapping and memorializing impacts on protesters in public spaces / Clara Sika Helbo ; Fly fishing / Henriëtte Waal ; Squirt guns / Clemens Driessen ; Dürer facing his nightmare / Henriëtte Waal & Clemens Driessen ; Tear gun / Yi-Fei Chen -- 6. Infrastructure / Henriëtte Waal & Clemens Driessen ; Poldercraft: From promise to puddle / Shahnoor Hasan ; Ecosocial architecture and community-based solutions: interview / Marjetica Potrč ; Dengue toad: interview with Fernando Felipe Pérez Riojas / by Henriëtte Waal & Clemens Driessen & Daniela Tokashiki ; QANAT Collective / Francesca Masoero ; The geomorphosis cycle: The wet knowledge at Nabi Daniel & A paradise in walls of nothingness: interview / Islam Shabana ; Reservoir / Sjoerd Knibbeller ; Peat regeneration in the Veenweide Atelier / Henriëtte Waal ; The Soviet water computer and the death of the Aral Sea / Clemens Driessen & Jennifer Veilleux ; Westland / Clemens Driessen -- 7. Commerce / Henriëtte Waal & Clemens Driessen ; Selling the source: Von der Quelle ins regal / Henriëtte Waal ; The cow that sits in the river / Coltrane McDowell ; Biotech dyeing: or creating ecosystems for microbial life to change the fashion industry: interview / Natsai Audrey Chieza (Faber Futures) ; Spring coolers: interview / Moreno Schweikle ; Meilnick: Allegory of nature and human nature / Clemens Driessen ; De-extractivist poetics in the semi-periphery: interview / Mirko Nikolic ; Liquidity: interview ; Julien Fargetton ; Mining water/mien blééch / Henriëtte Waal -- Conclusion / Henriëtte Waal & Clemens Driessen ; Water fairy / Henriëtte Waal -- Biographies.

Summary:

"Water is a central concern in the ecological and social issues that we are faced with, and technical solutions do not suffice. We need a radically diverse approach that stages and cultivates relations. Without promising grandiose schemes to save the environment, ecosocial design fosters curiosity about the ways in which people draw on their experience and shared commitment to landscapes and ecologies. Through a collection of essays and case studies, Water Works shows over sixty careful responses to flooding, draught, pollution, extraction and other issues around freshwater. Divided into seven themes: Purity, Wild, Scale, Representation, Violence, Infrastructure and Commerce, Water Works allows us to learn from places and makers that build on the intricate relationships between people and other life forms, materials and (infra)structures. Critically blending knowledge derived from craft, art, science and ecology, these works ask: what are sensible ways to embrace and connect with water? Through wading, floating, testing and tasting, how can we generate more desirable ecosocial relations? In facing large-scale engineering, climate change, privatization and other forms of water violence, these works are an invitation to design together with water as a site and medium for ecosocial renewal."-- Back cover.

ISBN:

9789493246454 (paperback)
9493246450 (paperback)
9789493246577(open access PDF)

Subject:

Water Environmental aspects.
Water Social aspects.
Social ecology.
Watershed management.
Sustainable architecture.
Eau Aspect de l'environnement.
Eau Aspect social.
Écologie sociale.
Bassins hydrographiques Gestion.
Architecture durable.
human ecology.
Water
City planning Environmental aspects
Sociale ecologie
Vormgeving
Netherlands

Added entries:

Waal, Henriëtte, editor.
Driessen, Clemens, 1971- editor.
Ardern, Jon, contributor
Bastashevski, Mari, contributor

Waterworks : ecosocial design

Holdings:

Location: Library main 322387
Call No.: 322387
Copy: 1
Status: Available