Water Works
Eco-Social Design
- Forthcoming: expected May 2025. You can pre-order this title in our webshop. As soon as the book is available, we will dispatch your order.
- Through a collection of essays and case studies Water Works shows over forty innovative and creative approaches toward rising sea and river levels and the spreading draught.
- Divided into themes Purity, Wild, Scale, Representation, Violence, Infrastructure and Commerce, this book shows how to think of places and spaces that re-imagine eco-social connections and solutions, and generate relationships between people, organisms, and (infra-)structures.
Editors/authors: Clemens Driessen & Henriëtte Waal
Contributors: Mari Bastashevski, Janna Bystrykh, Carolina Dominguez-Guzmán, Clemens Driessen, Shahnoor Hasan, Clara Helbo, Ils Huygens, Francesca Masoero, Coltrane McDowell, Mirko Nikolić, Maria & Joana Pestana, Benedetta Pompili, Esha Shah, Mihnea Tananescu, Serina Tarkhanian, John Thackara, Moreno Schweikle, Henriëtte Waal, among others.
Interviews with: Atelier Luma, Natsai Audrey Chieza, Achmed Salem Dabah and Heidi Vogels, Julien Fargetton, Anab Jain and Jon Ardern, Zairah Khan, Rebecca Lave, Mary Maggic, OOZE Architects, Marjetica Potrc, Qanat Collective, Rimini Protokoll, Fernando Felipe Riojas, Susan Schuppli, Islam Shabana, Thijs de Zeeuw, and many others.
Support: Creative Industries Fund NL, Cultuurfonds, Wageningen University
Design: Bart de Baets
Info: Forthcoming, expected May 2025, Valiz | pb | ca. 400 pp. | 24 x 17 cm (h x w) | English | ISBN 978-94-93246-45-4 | €29,50
There is no way around it: we have arrived at a crucial point in tackling climate change. Through a collection of essays and case studies Water Works shows over forty innovative and creative approaches toward the rising sea levels and the spreading draught. Divided into seven different themes Purity, Wild, Scale, Representation, Violence, Infrastructure and Commerce, this book shows how to think of places and spaces that re-imagine eco-social connections and solutions, and generate relationships between people, organisms, and (infra-) structures. It shows different locally embedded ‘water works’ solutions, with examples from all over the globe.The case studies show a myriad of ways to obtain knowledge and to tackle water troubles, both technical and functional-poetic. There are examples such as deconstructing dams, designing better waterfalls, listening to ice and researching different irrigation methods, exploring ways in which local knowledge can be combined with science.
The book shows that art, culture and the incorporation of existing structures and collaborations play a crucial role as inspiration and breeding ground for changing our way of dealing with climate change.
