The Water Governance Blog at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Drawing on experiences of participatory visual research in the M’zab Valley oasis in Algeria, we reflect on how creative methodologies can reshape relationships to local environments and support more inclusive forms of knowledge co-production,...
A documentary film speculating on climate migration along the Dutch-German border helps us to critically reflect on the notion of climate refugees and how we represent them in the media. A few weeks ago,...
After graduating from IHE Delft MSc in Water Management and Governance, Helen Barbosa turned her thesis into a short film to promote a conversation on uneven water distributions in her country, Cabo Verde, and...
A reflection on how photos can help us to promote conversations and shared understandings on a long, diverse, and contested river like the Nile. #EverydayNile is a project involving photojournalists from Nile basin countries...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 &...
