Above water, about movies
Three weeks ago, IHE Delft and the festival Movies that matter organized the screening of “Above water”, a documentary on climate changes implications for access to water in a small village in Niger. The...
Tagged: visual methods
Watching water and sanitation in an invisible Syrian refugee camp
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...
Brahmaputra, a river of hope and sorrow
The project “Science communication for water diplomacy in the Brahmaputra” launched a photostory exhibition on the mighty river. Arundhati Deka and Isha Thakur offer a glimpse of the plurality of attachments, concerns and hopes reflected...
Thinking about digital research during the Coronavirus pandemic and beyond
As IHE Delft MSc students and mentors start crafting their thesis topics amidst uncertainty related to Covid19, Sharli Paphitis (King’s College London and Rhodes University) shares insights and resources on digital research methods. As...
Teaching visual storytelling on water
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...
Crooked River: a visual immersion in the Cuyahoga
Ethiopian photographer and visual artist Michael Tsegaye presents his photo exhibition “Crooked River“, a poetic immersion in the Cuyahoga river (Ohio, US) transformed by the viewers in an interactive experience. The Cuyahoga river in...
Canción del Atrato: a journey of water, dispossession and resistance
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...
Paradise for whom? The privatization of beaches in Punta de Mita, Mexico
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...
“Latrine Doctrine”: Mumbai sanitation iceberg and the Clean India Mission
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...
The (super)powers of the visual. A summer course
Summer is coming – yes, even in the Netherlands! – and IHE Delft summer courses too (July 30 – August 3), including the one on “Visual methods for water communication”. A few places are...
It’s all about power: the Brahmaputras’ in South Asia
This post is authored by Sumit Vij (Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands), and Anamika Barua (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India). Anamika is part of the Universities’ Partnership for Water Cooperation &...
Voices of a Water Crisis: the case of São Paulo
Oftentimes the unjust distribution of water and water risks exists in a city without apparently sparking much contestation on everyday life. These asymmetric distributions persist just below the surface in the hasty routines of...
“How Hard is Your Hat?”: Exploring Professional Culture in Water Engineering
Earlier this year we embraced the challenge of producing a short documentary for the 2018 Water Governance Documentary Festival. In the context of our Water Governance Module, we were asked to to explore different aspects of...
“A Saturday on the Nile”: one river, many representations.
An old adage says “Whoever drinks from the Nile will always return to it”. That’s why – after last year’s success – on February 10 we are going to have another “Saturday on the...
“Once in a life-time”. A documentary on living with water
Since I arrived to the Netherlands, I wondered if Dutch people are afraid of living with water. That idea gave me the opportunity to do research about the effects of the high water and...