Symposium Water Imaginaries
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Location: Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, Den Haag
When: 11 June 2025
Time: 14:30 – 21:00 hrs
Sign up via: Eventbrite
At Stroom Den Haag, Water Imaginaries is a one-day gathering of artists, researchers, and makers exploring our relationships with water, ecology, and the built environment. Through panels, performances, and screenings, the program invites audiences into a world of storytelling and speculation—where material and immaterial knowledge flows between urban and rural, past and future, science and sensibility.
This event is part of Stroom’s multi-year research trajectory Networks of Embodiment, which critically examines the modern/colonial legacies embedded in our infrastructures and ways of living. Working through feminist, queer, and decolonial lenses, Water Imaginaries questions how artistic and design practices can activate ecological awareness and responsibility—beyond representation, beyond borders.
Set against the backdrop of global ecological urgency, the program sparks encounters that transcend disciplines and geographies. It lays the groundwork for shared imagination and care, toward “a world in which many worlds fit.”
Water imaginaries is organized in tandem with the exhibition Beloved Waters at Stroom and can be visited during the event. Water imaginaries is organized by Stroom in collaboration with our partners Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE), Royal Academy of Art (KABK), and the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS).
Program:
14:00 - 14:10u: Word of welcome
14:10 - 14:50u: Listening session 'The Ocean is Entranced' with Zahra Malkani
15:00 - 16:00u: Water Council of Relationality with Pete Fung & Nadine Botha from Design Academy Eindhoven
16:00 - 16:15u: Short Break
16:15 - 16:40u: Lecture performance Gatari Surya Kusuma (Seaweed Etcetera)
16:45 - 18:00u: Panel in Collaboration with Farhad Mukhtarov and Jelmer Teunissen from the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
18:00 - 18:30u: Dinner
18:30 - 20:15u: Victoria McKenzie, Natalia Figueredo & KABK
20:15 - 20:30u: Short break
20:30 - 21:00u: Lecture performance Amanda Piña
21:00u: Closing program
Beloved Waters and Water Imaginaries is made possible with the generous support of the Mondriaan Fund and the Municipality of The Municipality of The Hague.