The Water Governance Blog at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
As the Niger river shrinks under climate change, young men from Gao, in Mali, travel to Algerian oases to work and return home with skills, equipment, and knowledge that help them transforming agriculture. Our...
In a new article Vanessa M. Turri and Tommaso Vitale reflect on more than a decade of participatory experiments in water governance in Paris and Naples, asking what remains of civic participation once it...
Drawing on experiences of participatory visual research in the M’zab Valley oasis in Algeria, we reflect on how creative methodologies can reshape relationships to local environments and support more inclusive forms of knowledge co-production,...
In this interview, Simon Richter – better known as Dr. Poldergeist – takes us behind the scenes of his latest video, exploring the complex ties between Bonaire and Dutch climate policy. He reflects on...
By questioning the rigid separation between nature and culture, two artistic experiments with children and water boards in the Netherlands allowed to imagine new forms of dialogue and coexistence between humans and non-humans. We...
A documentary following a band of musicians from Nile countries on tour in the United States offers the opportunity to reflect on the collaboration across cultures and disciplines that students experience at IHE Delft....
In the past years, the concept of care has gained popularity in the social sciences. Carolina Domínguez-Guzmán distinguishes two ways in which it has been mobilised in water studies and uses the metaphor of...
Four memos to harness the transformative potential of transdisciplinary research to contribute to more sustainable and integrated land and water governance in the Dutch peatlands. In the Dutch peat meadow landscape, the ground is...
IHE Delft alumna Sherine El-Wattar came back to Delft as a guest lecturer to share her experience at the IPCC and the COP with the master students involved in a simulation game on climate...
IHE Delft alumna Toka Mahmoud reflects on the need to go beyond numbers and build relations in research through interdisciplinary methods to better understand the social consequences of climate change and push people to...
In his Master thesis at IHE Delft, Robert Willard used visual research methods to explore competing narratives, contested memories, and shared emotions about dams, bridges, and a river in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Water and...
When structured as a safe space for genuine and respectful dialogue over a contested river like the Helmand/Hirmand, webinars become an effective tool for water diplomacy. Few transboundary rivers capture the complex interplay of...
In their new article, Mohsen Nagheeby, Olivia Mason, Muna Dajani, and Hussam Hussein call for rethinking mainstream narratives and power structures in water diplomacy, making space for a plurality of approaches inspired by transformative...
In a book presented at the International Festival Fluid Interdisciplinarities, our colleagues of G-EAU in Montpellier reflect on their stories of interdisciplinary water research. Instead of preaching “the right way to do interdisciplinarity”, they...
IHE Delft Research Master students attended the opera “Ring of our time” by a multicultural group of artists from four continents. Based on research with local communities and activists on water cultural heritage, the...
The second part of a summer meditation detailing ten points to reclaim hope as a strategy. In the first part of this text, I set up a cliffhanger: how do we recognize a collective...
