Symposium Water Imaginaries

Stroom Den Haag is a center for visual arts with a wide range of activities. The program is based on the conviction that art offers new insights and makes an important contribution to the discussion about the city, culture and society.Stroom Den Haag is een centrum voor beeldende kunst met een breed scala aan activiteiten. Het programma is gebaseerd op de overtuiging dat kunst nieuwe inzichten biedt en een belangrijke bijdrage levert aan het debat over stad, cultuur en maatschappij.

Stroom Den Haag

A Day of Art, Dialogue & Collective Futures

At Stroom Den Haag, Water Imaginaries is a one-day gathering of artists, researchers, and makers exploring our relationships with water, ecology, and the built environment. Through panels, performances, and screenings, the program invites audiences into a world of storytelling and speculation—where material and immaterial knowledge flows between urban and rural, past and future, science and sensibility.This event is part of Stroom’s multi-year research trajectory Networks of Embodiment, which critically examines the modern/colonial legacies embedded in our infrastructures and ways of living. Working through feminist, queer, and decolonial lenses, Water Imaginaries questions how artistic and design practices can activate ecological awareness and responsibility—beyond representation, beyond borders.Set against the backdrop of global ecological urgency, the program sparks encounters that transcend disciplines and geographies. It lays the groundwork for shared imagination and care, toward “a world in which many worlds fit.”Water imaginaries is organized in tandem with the exhibition Beloved Waters at Stroom and can be visited during the event. Water imaginaries is organized by Stroom in collaboration with our partners Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE), Royal Academy of Art (KABK), and the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS).Beloved Waters and Water Imaginaries is made possible with the generous support of the Mondriaan Fund and the Municipality of The Municipality of The Hague.

Agenda

Word of welcome

The song Darya Mast Hai or The Ocean is Entranced brings together field recordings from protests and trance/devotional rituals that invoke the ocean as a site for ego death and unravelling, as well as a site for the emergence of new, intrepid collectivities. This listening session revisits some of the encounters, memories and revelations enfolded in this song, a sonic journey across aquatic Pakistan.

Listening session  'The Ocean is Entranced' with Zahra Malkani

Design Academy Eindhoven: Pete Fung & Nadine Botha

Water Council of Relationaility

Short break 

Lecture performance Gatari Surya Kusama (Seaweed Etcetera)

The panel is a collaboration between Jelmer Teunissen (designer and architect) and Farhad Mukhtarov (ISS) to discuss water imaginaries of and in the Netherlands and how these inform the global modes of water governance, management and investment. 

Panel in collaboration with the International Institute of Social Studies(ISS)

Dinner

Contemplate the redefinition of Tropical Architectural Design and 'Water Cities' from and through the diaspora: the Brazilian/South American Perspective and the Caribbean/African perspective.

Victoria Mckenzie & Natalia Figueredo & KABK

Short Break

Lecture performance Amanda Piña

Closing program

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