Drawing with Rivers I River Landscapes - A New Glossary

Drawing is a form of observing, remembering, situating and imagining. The workshop Drawing with Rivers engages with the river Limmat, its past, current and future riverbed, ways of water, and sediments as drawing lines. Together, we use drawing as method to visit the river’s past, meandering through the valley, and imagine its future course. Inspired by river cartographers both historic and contemporary we will use drawing as a means of imagining, futuring and narrating.  Using water, ink and river sediments, the participants create a collective, speculative drawing collection. The project “River Landscapes” tackles the capitalistic language used to describe rivers by creating a new, decolonised glossary that grasps them as more-than-human water landscapes. The project initiates a series of locally anchored and hybrid dialogues between the core team and invited river experts from the sciences and the arts and aims to collect, investigate, and artistically transform local knowledge about the river.The glossary will be made available as a digital open-source platform.

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