The Memory, Place, and Community in Global Water Systems Working Group creates experimental and interactive experiences that transform knowledge, attitudes, practices, and values about water and related global environmental systems.
The Memory, Place, and Community in Global Water Systems is a working group of The Sustainable Water Future Programme (Water Future), a global research project of Future Earth that facilitates international scientific collaboration to drive solutions to the world’s water problems. Consistent with the broad objectives of the Sustainable Development Goal for Water, research conducted through Water Future seeks to ensure a balance between the needs of humankind and nature, and to offer real solutions, underpinned by interdisciplinary science, to deliver a sustainable ‘water world’. Water Future champions the application of integrated research to generate solutions that can be used to support policies for sustainable development. The programme serves as an ideas incubator, network hub and translator of scientific findings to address science, engineering, governance and management issues and drive policy change. The programme brings a unique, systems-level perspective to develop integrated approaches for both diagnosing water-related challenges and crafting innovative solutions.
OBJECTIVES
To educate and encourage all members of society to transform their behavior to create healthier and more resilient environments and practices.
To generate data about cultural values and beliefs that shape our behavior in relation to water environments.
To assess and evaluate the effectiveness of new forms of public engagement in transforming public knowledge, attitudes, practices, and values about global environmental systems.
People
Chair: Jason M. Kelly – Director of the IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute and Associate Professor of History
Aaron Cooke – Cold Climate Housing Research Center (Alaska)/Danish Technical Institute in Greenland
Phil Scarpino – Director of Public History Program and Professor of History at IUPUI
Fiona McDonald – Postdoctoral Researcher at the IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute
James Syvitski – Executive Director of the Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System and Professor of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado-Boulder
Mark Kesling – Director, The DaVinci Pursuit (Indianapolis)
Scott Ashley – Senior Lecturer in History, Newcastle University, UK
Nina Elder – Artist and Residency Program Director at the Santa Fe Art Institute
Ninad Bondre – Managing Editor of Elevate Scientific
Gaia Vince – Journalist, broadcaster and author
Description
Memory, Place, and Community in Global Water Systems will implement the first phases of the Museum of the Anthropocene (a project of the Rivers of the Anthropocene network) which creates experimental and interactive experiences that transform knowledge, attitudes, practices, and values about water and related global environmental systems. This group will create a series of global, networked exhibitions focused on water.