The Water Governance Blog at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
The conference and launch of this new book were an opportunity not only to talk about transdisciplinary learning, but also to practice it by connecting politics, pedagogy, and art. On the 9th of September...
Lamis Qdemat reflects on the video “A wake-up call: water and sanitation in an invisible Syrian refugee camp” that she made together with photographer Suliman Okla for her “capita selecta” studies at IHE Delft...
At the end of the taught part of their Master, IHE Delft Water Management and Governance students visited the Watersnood museum and the Delta Works in the South West of the Netherlands. Moline Chauruka...
On the 3rd of May, IHE Delft hosted the inaugural session of the Graduate Professional Diploma Program (GPDP) on Humanitarian WASH. Gabriela Cuadrado Quesada and Tineke Hooijmans introduce the new program, implemented in collaboration...
The Coronavirus pandemic has generated a global and rushed migration online of education activities. This is a first post of a series aiming at reflecting on the long term implications of this process: can...
A new article reflects on the experience of IHE Delft summer course “Visual methods for water communication”. Video making is a collective effort through which students can learn not only communication skills but also...
“Pluralising water science” was again the theme of the first week of IHE Delft MSc academic programs. In his keynote talk Amitangshu Acharya questioned the colonial legacy influencing the contemporary season of dam constructions...
In October IHE Delft welcomed a new batch of MSc students. To discover their motivations and aspirations we asked them to introduce us to their heroines and heroes. This was the third time that...
Our MSc students in Water Governance and Management produced three podcasts to present the findings of the fieldtrip in Alentejo (Portugal). The first transmission of the once-famous MTV channel was a video-song by a...
As the research phase of IHE Delft MSc program in Water Management and Governance kicks off, we share the first outcomes of an action research on interdisciplinarity involving the students that just graduated and...
A recent global trend acknowledges that rivers have legal personality and rights. But who can speak for the river? And how? In this video, Maitreyi, Alyssa, Aminjon, Pablo, Iqbal, and Folasade, MSc students in...
How to tell a story about neoliberalism in the water sector through a video? Zaida, Nawid, Abebe, Danneille, Nargiza, Alexia, and Kelly, MSc students in water management and governance, tell what they learnt from...
Would “building” toilets solve the issues surrounding insufficient sanitation infrastructure? During our Water Governance module, we were privileged to get an opportunity to produce a ten minutes documentary for the 2019 Water Governance Documentary Festival...
Every six years educational programmes in the Netherlands need to go through a (re)accreditation process, supervised by the Dutch Accreditation Organization for Higher Education. A panel of external experts assess if programmes deliver good...
This blogpost was written by Neha Mungekar. The tour guide, holding his travel agency’s flag up in the air, confidently describes the history of the brick-lined water canal as part of his rehearsed and solemn...
