Idea by
Katherine Ball and Ted Marino, in collaboration with Excellando film-design collective (Benoît Verjat and Alexis de Raphelis)
http://floatinguniversity.org/en/water
Call for ideas 2019
The Water Runs Through Us
The Water Runs Through Us
- Systemic changes
Think back to an experience in your life you shared with water.
Were you caught in the rain? Swimming in the ocean? Walking on a frozen lake?
Technology is only part of the answer to our challenges with water. What’s missing is our relationship with water. How will life change as our relationship to water transforms?
This mythic tale shares the story of a participatory water filtration system developed at Floating University Berlin (floatinguniversity.org/en/water). This story will describe how water moves through Floating University’s site: beginning as rain landing on Tempelhof airport, draining into a polluted rainwater basin, flowing through Floating University’s water system, and cascading into the Spree River and ocean. The myth will take inspiration from the Open Calls, integrating them into its magical realism. Told from the perspective of water, it will oscillate from singular to plural (‘I’ to ‘we’) as water changes states, from water molecules to clouds to oil slicks.
The Water Runs Through Us
The Water Runs Through Us
- Systemic changes
Think back to an experience in your life you shared with water.
Were you caught in the rain? Swimming in the ocean? Walking on a frozen lake?
Technology is only part of the answer to our challenges with water. What’s missing is our relationship with water. How will life change as our relationship to water transforms?
This mythic tale shares the story of a participatory water filtration system developed at Floating University Berlin (floatinguniversity.org/en/water). This story will describe how water moves through Floating University’s site: beginning as rain landing on Tempelhof airport, draining into a polluted rainwater basin, flowing through Floating University’s water system, and cascading into the Spree River and ocean. The myth will take inspiration from the Open Calls, integrating them into its magical realism. Told from the perspective of water, it will oscillate from singular to plural (‘I’ to ‘we’) as water changes states, from water molecules to clouds to oil slicks.