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Danube
The Danube is the world’s most international river. From the Black Forest to the Black Sea, she flows through ten nations; her catchment area spans twenty countries total, connecting regions, cultures and habitats like few other waterways. More than 80 million people live along her banks and tributaries. Four capital cities lie directly on her…
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The River Tay
Originating on the slopes of Ben Lui (Beinn Laoigh) and flowing easterly across the Highlands, the River Tay is Scotland’s longest river and largest river catchment area. The Tay connects the lower regions of the Highlands and connects us to the North Sea. Stemming from the ancient Brythonic or Pictish language, the name likely signifies…
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Modau
The Modau River is an average German river in the lower mountain area of Odenwald south of Frankfurt, she is 44 kilometres long and flows into the Rhein River at Stockstadt. Her sister is called Gersprenz. They were both born on the mountain of Neunkirchner Höhe (605 m), and the sources are situated only one…
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Manzanares
The Manzanares River begins its journey in the Sierra de Guadarrama and flows through the heart of Madrid before joining the Jarama River, part of the larger Tagus watershed. Although historically dismissed as a minor river, the Manzanares has long sustained human and non-human life across its basin: from mountain ecosystems and agricultural landscapes to…
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Mtkvari
A water body flowing from the Caucasus before mingling with the Caspian Sea—known in human tongues as Mtkvari, Kura, Cyrus—was the living pulse of Georgia, circulating in the bodies of its dwellers as they swam, drank, and marked their deepest rituals at its edge. Known for its capricious nature: changing rapids, fluctuating shallows, and periodic…
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GARN EU Hub x Confluence of European Water Bodies:
Rights of Nature Case Dialogue. A plunge into the river ReussWe invite ecologists, lawyers, philosophers, artists, designers, and activists to join the first online GARN EU Hub x Confluence of European Water Bodies Rights of Nature Case Dialogue. A plunge into the river Reuss on May 7, 2026, at 7:30 pm. Reuss Initiative This online dialogue spotlights the Reuss Initiative —a pioneering popular initiative (and…
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The Diplomatic Suitcase travels to Slovakia
The Diplomatic Suitcase—the Confluence’s traveling exhibition— has journeyed to Galéria Jána Koniarka in Trnava, Slovakia, as part of the exhibition ´Contracts of Recognition´, curated by Lucia Bergamaschi & David Přílučík, on view until May 31, 2026. ´Contracts of Recognition´ depart from a set of intertwined questions: How can alliances be imagined beyond the human? What…
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Watch the short film of Confluence #3!
The third annual Confluence of European Water Bodies took our journey to Amsterdam and Bergen aan Zee. Taking place from 21 – 24 September 2025 and hosted by the Embassy of the North Sea, the 2025 Confluence brought together water bodies from all across Europe and beyond to gather, think, create, and strategize in workshops,…
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River Rights, Living Laws
How water can help us imagine life otherwiseArticle by Katarina Rakušček “One way to stop seeing trees, or river, or hills, only as ‘natural resources,’ is to class them as fellow beings—as kinfolk. I guess I’m trying to subjectify the universe, because look where objectifying it has gotten us. To subjectify is not necessarily to co-opt, colonize, exploit. Rather it may involve…
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Looking back at the Confluence of European Water Bodies 2025
A river is a gathering that seeks the sea. A confluence is the moment we begin to move together. The Confluence of European Water Bodies 2025, taking place in Amsterdam and Bergen aan Zee and hosted by the Embassy of the North Sea, brought together representatives of water bodies to imagine, discuss, and strategize on…
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Hydro Bodies Assembly: Berlin
Transgeographical Hydro Bodies ‘Transgeographical Hydro Bodies’ is a collaboration of four European partners: Forevergreen (IT), iii (NL), Tenthaus (NO), and Cashmere Radio (DE), promoting an innovative way of touring by stimulating critical reflection on the environment through a transdisciplinary artistic approach. At the heart of the project is the participatory lecture performance ‘Hydro Bodies Assembly’,…
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Projects
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Can the Piave still Murmur?
An assembly in Ocean Space for an in-depth discussion and a series of artistic elements centered on the case of the Grave di Ciano, an important area of the Piave river, protected by the Natura 2000 project but threatened by a potentially ecologically damaging climate adaptation project.
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Programme Confluence of European Water Bodies 2024
From 3 to 6 October 2024, the second edition of the Confluence of European Water Bodies will take place, an initiative of the Embassy of the North Sea, TBA21–Academy, and representatives of the ILP Mar Menor. After a successful first conference in 2023 on the shores of the Mar Menor, the first ecosystem in Europe…
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The Waterbodies orchestra
The Water Bodies Orchestra This digital design project is a musical and embodied way to unlock the digital sound archive of European waters. Through interactive group experiences, the human and non-human voices of the water bodies will come together in a performative moment. The Water Bodies Orchestra will be rehearsed and performed for the first…
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Diplomatic suitcase
Diplomatic suitcase Water is vital for all life on Earth, yet the voices of water are rarely heard in political decision-making. Born out of growing water challenges and demands for water democracy worldwide, the Confluence of European Water Bodies sprang from a collective pursuit of a deeper understanding of the ‘Rights of Nature’ in Europe.…
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Representatives
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Katja Schechtner
Katja develops technologies and strategies for cities seeking to serve all their inhabitants. Since 2022, she has been researching urban rights of nature at MIT’s Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism, while also being affiliated with the Media Lab’s City Science Group and the Senseable City Lab. Her executive career spans leadership roles within innovation, technology, and mobility…
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Alex Putzer
Alex researches the theory, analysis, and implementation of rights of nature in cities. As a UN Harmony with Nature Expert and member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law, he co-developed the Eco Jurisprudence Monitor, the world’s leading database tracking rights of nature. He holds a PhD from the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa and has been a…
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Kevin Frediani
Kevin Frediani is Operation Manager for the National Trust in Angus, leading the stewardship of some of the region’s most treasured historic and cultural sites. Previously her was Curator of the Botanic Garden and Head of Grounds at the University of Dundee. His research interests explore how spaces become places imbued with emotion through the…
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Clare Cooper
Clare is an independent creative producer, working across the fields of culture, nature restoration and tourism. She is co-founder and co-director of Tayside’s ‘museum without walls’, the Cateran Ecomuseum and with her sister, operates Vanora’s Cottages. Previously a member of Alyth Community Council and a founding Director of the Alyth Development Trust, she also served on the Local Action…
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Dr Marian Bruce
After spending many years in academic research, Marian founded Highland Boundary, Scotland’s first botanical spirits distillery in 2016, where she is director and master distiller. Award- winning Highland Boundary spirits are produced on her small, re-wilded family farm at Kirklandbank in Alyth, Perthshire where she also manages livestock, holiday rental and sculpture businesses. She was also Enterprise Manager…
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