Watch the Drop, Ripple, Wave episode #8 – Living with Water

In the new episode of Bauhaus of the Seas Sails videoseries Drop, Ripple Wave, Francien van Westrenen of the Nieuwe Instituut and Rosi Braidotti present the Living with Water drop.

The Living with Water drop is part of a curriculum for and with the city and citizens of cities, which is initiated by The New Academy, a collaboration between the Nieuwe Instituut and Rosi Braidotti. The drop addresses the connection of water to a city’s identity. It focuses on shared water knowledge that can shape the city’s vision of itself, and help design a resilient future.

Together with different bottom-up, activist, cultural and archival organisations in Rotterdam, The New Academy develops a curriculum based on the concept of the ‘distributed university’. This assumes that knowledge is produced in a variety of locations and through many different subjects, not for profit and by the people. Within the Living with Water drop, the interdependency of water, citizens and the city is central. 

Living with Water is the eight episode of a bigger series split in two seasons, with episodes dropping every month from April to November in 2024 and 2025 – here and on Canal 180’s Youtube channel. Season 1, titled Drop, Ripple, Wave, is composed of conversations where consortium members and external experts discuss each of the eight pilot project typologies – drops. Learn more about the video series here.