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Urban Waterworlds: Dialogues on Urban Flooding, Climate Justice and the Future of Water in the City

Research Project
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01.10.2022
 - 31.07.2023

In times of global climate crisis, cities are under increasing pressure to face major environmental challenges, such as urban flooding. This communication project explores the relationship between urban water and futurity by dialoguing on practices and imaginations of urban waterworlds with and amongst urban youth in Switzerland (Basel and Lausanne) and Colombia (Cartagena de Indias). By fostering dialogue with urban youth beyond North-South divide on their experiences and imaginaries of Urban Waterworlds in relation to climate change, we draw on strollology in order to develop collective walks centred on Urban Waterworlds in three cities of the Global North and South. This project has three main objectives: 1) encouraging youth in the Swiss cities of Basel and Lausanne, and Cartagena de Indias, Colombia to be aware of Urban Waterworlds and to reflect on their own representations of how cities are imagined in anticipation of future climate events; 2) bringing in conversation urban youth from the Global North and South to encourage a sustainable and decolonial dialogue helping reduce North-South stereotypes on urban environmental futures; 3) provide youth-driven reflections on how to achieve greater levels of climate justice in an urban age.

Members (2)

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Silke Oldenburg

Principal Investigator
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Laura Neville

Co-Investigator