Rechtvaardige en onrechtvaardige relaties tussen land en water hervertellen en herstellen via kunstactivisme

The project will address temporal and intergenerational dimensions of climate justice from the perspective of narratives and socio-cultural imaginaries regarding land-water relationships. It will develop a “rurban” lens that examines past, present, and future rural-urban (dis)connections in the context of different cases of land-water relationships, including areas with recent (Twente region) and longer (Aruba) histories of experiencing water scarcity, and by engaging with environmental art-activism in these areas. To this end, the research will develop an approach to engage humans and more-than-humans (e.g., rivers, animals, microorganisms, fish, future generations, technology) as actors, participants, stakeholders, and knowledge holders, and collaborate with artists and artistic residencies. Moreover, the project will explore ways of harnessing the potential of art-activism for climate justice.