Climate change creates new risks and exacerbates existing vulnerabilities in communities already facing water challenges. Join us as we explore collective action and consider the following questions:
How do we cope with the cultural and economic losses from climate change?
How do we talk about loss that can’t be quantified?
Do we build more structural defenses or do we adapt our communities to the “new normal”?
Who makes these decisions?
WHO ARE WE and WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?
We are a group of artists, scientists, community organizers, planners, and engineers who are creating a space for collaboration and action. The climate crisis facing our communities demands that we find new ways of working together.
WHAT’S OUR GOAL?
To collaborate and to spark action! We want to ground the adaptation conversation in culture, people and communities; to focus our efforts on tangible outcomes; and to learn how to be allies in this global struggle.
US-Netherlands Water Management Network
The US-Netherlands Water Management Network is an informal network of water management researchers, students, and professionals that have conducted research and studied in the Netherlands through a NAF-Fulbright Flood Management Research Fellowship.
DecadesOut
DecadesOut’s mission is to raise public awareness of the cultural impact between science and the arts as they impact policy and social change through developing and producing projects in the disciplines of theatre, film, visual arts, and digital media. Its most recent project, Head for Highland, is a feature length documentary about community action, creation and collaboration between science and art against the real and increasing threats of climate change.
Works on Water
Works on Water (WoW) is dedicated to supporting artists working on, in, and with bodies of water in response to the changing climate, increasing urban density, and public awareness of ecological concerns. WoW hosts a residency program on Governors Island and produces a triennial in order to help define the emerging field of Water Art. WoW’s intergenerational community of artists/curators/researchers/activists expand civic practices and increase public engagement with water by making rigorous, inclusive, site-specific artwork. The next triennial will take place in bodies of water around New York City’s waterways in September 2020.
Imagine Water Works
We’re reimagining the future through art, science, and human connection. Since 2012 we’ve helped lead the changes in how New Orleans thinks about living with water, working in an intersection of reducing risk from flooding, pollution, and natural hazards. We knew that the best solutions were multidisciplinary, and so we integrated science, history, identity, and art into our work.