Architects Carlos Loperena and Alexandros Vaitsos are two members of DECA Architecture collective that is stationed in Greece. They welcome me warmly with a rich introduction of how the two met and reunited years after college. Back in 2001, Carlos…
A conversation with Haseeb Ahmed about the research phase of his residency. Based in Brussels for his S+T+ARTS project, Haseeb Ahmed wants to explore the journey that pharmaceuticals take from the point of human consumption and excretion to water streams…
A conversation with Joshua Stein about the first phase of his S+T+ARTS residency. As the founder of Radical Craft, a research and design studio that combines architecture, art and urbanism, US-based artist Joshua Stein has spent his first few S+T+ARTS4WATER-months…
A conversation with Mark IJzerman about the first phase of his S+T+ARTS residency After making an artificial intelligence installation that invites visitors to communicate with ‘the North Sea’, and a video in which humans are anthropologically observed from the perspective…
Today I talk with ST+ARTS4WATER artists Robertina Šebjanič and Marjan Žitnik, who are working on a project called “Zero Pollution Adriatic”.Together they investigate the pollution in the Adriatic sea: the levels, volumes, sources and hopefully the solutions. With Dubrovnik (CR)…
Between January and February 2022, Theresa Schubert developed the first phase of her residency within STARTS4Water project hosted at Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto (Biella, Italy) focusing on the regional challenge Rebuilding relationships with fluvial systems: Fluvial Systems as Indicators of…
[MARJAN ŽITNIK] For the STARTS residency on the Zero Pollution Adriatic we are focused on both visible and invisible pollutants of the Adriatic Sea. One of the premises that we set up was to completely rethink pollution in terms of…
Thursday 27th of January the group of experts involved with Draught in Waterland and Biodiversity in Port of Rotterdam met at V2_Lab. For many it was the first opportunity to meet ‘in real life’ (due to Covid restricitions), a few…
During the first phase of the STARTS4Water residency between November and December 2021 in Italy, Joshua G. Stein participated in two Local Experts Group meetings, one in Biella and the other one in Turin. After Joshua presented his project proposal…
The Reflection phase for our project included both a trip of the artists to “reflect” on their submitted proposal on site, on the island of Sifnos, as well as a week-long Academy event with workshops and activities with the local…