If water could speak, what would it tell?
As part of the BERLIN DESIGN WEEK / BERLIN DESIGN NIGHTS we cordially invite you to the EXHIBITION OPENING SAVE!ING STORIES STORED IN WATER and a CONVERSATION between the artist MARIE JESCHKE, the civil engineer STEPHAN DITTRICH (GSP eG Genossenschaft selbstverwalteter Projekte), the press spokesman STEPHAN NATZ (Berliner Wasserbetriebe) and the architectural consultant ELENA BERGEN (LAUFEN save!) about the potential that lies in dealing with the seemingly unspectacular: Urine, infrastructure – and the design of a future worth living. The exhibition is curated by GABRIELA ANCO.
With the exhibition SAVE!ING STORIES STORED IN WATER, Berlin artist MARIE JESCHKE invites us to see urban infrastructures with different eyes. Water – supposedly a neutral transportation medium – becomes a narrator here. The exhibition makes visible what normally remains hidden: the cyclical movement of water through cities, bodies and the environment – and the traces of urban existence that it stores in the process.
The focus is on the invisible: wastewater as a cultural phenomenon, as evidence of human intervention and as a carrier of forgotten narratives.
It is time to rethink wastewater management. A shift to a decentralized, circular wastewater management system will benefit cities, agriculture and the biodiversity of rivers and oceans.
Developed in collaboration with the Austrian design studio EOOS, save! opens up new paths to decentralized, cycle-oriented wastewater management – and thus to the sustainable use of a resource that connects us all.
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