{"id":151680,"date":"2025-09-23T11:07:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T09:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/?post_type=event&p=151680"},"modified":"2025-10-12T12:37:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T10:37:39","slug":"the-colours-of-water-purple","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/programm\/termin\/science-and-humanities\/the-colours-of-water-purple-151680\/","title":{"rendered":"The colours of water: purple"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The opening weekend of the exhibition \u2018On Water\u2019 from 9 to 12 October 2025 will focus on the \u2018colours of water\u2019. Although water is usually depicted as blue, it actually comes in a wide variety of shades \u2013 such as grey, black or red. Many of these colours have specific meanings or serve as technical designations.<\/p>\n

Taking up the multicoloured nature of the wet element, the colourful opening weekend will focus on three of these colours and their associations: on Friday on rivers (green water), on Saturday on water in the city (purple water) and on Sunday on drought (brown water).<\/p>\n

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When a city is reflected in rain, puddles or waterways, the water can appear colourful. These shades of colour tell of the diverse interconnections between history and architecture, culture and infrastructure with this essential element. Viewed from the water, Berlin reveals itself as an experiment between staging and concealment, between thoughtless consumption and laborious balance in the use of resources. Saturday is dedicated to water in the city: from historical and current challenges to Berlin’s visible and invisible water architecture to bathing and swimming in urban spaces.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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To mark the opening of the new exhibition \u2018On Water\u2019, Radio Eins will be broadcasting live from the Humboldt Lab. Between 9:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m., there will be a quiz and interviews with curators, scientists and students involved in the exhibition.<\/p>\n

The live broadcast will be open to the public without registration; admission begins at 8:30 a.m. Access to the Humboldt Forum is exclusively via the revolving door in the courtyard (opposite Bistro Lebenswelten).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Guided tour \u2018Walking on Water\u2019 with students from HU<\/h3>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Audio walk around the Humboldt Forum with Sofia Bauriedl and Laura Haumberger<\/strong><\/p>\n

Water is not only the theme of the new exhibition \u2018On Water\u2019, but also defines the urban environment of the Humboldt Forum located on Museum Island. In the winter semester of 2024-25, students of the \u2018Studium Oecologicum\u2019 at HU developed a tour that focuses on water in and around Museum Island.<\/p>\n

During the tour, participants will join two of the students on a journey to water-related locations around Museum Island: former river bathing establishments, bridges, old fountains and modern water features \u2013 rediscovering the city from and with the water.<\/p>\n

The tour is accessible and no ticket is required. It starts in front of the Humboldt Lab.<\/p>\n

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Sustainable Food Art Performance with tasting with Anja Fiedler<\/strong><\/p>\n

How are moors entwined with water and the future? Are we, with currently “eating” this endangered landscape? What hopeful visions of tomorrow lie hidden within this biotope, so often cloaked in darkness?<\/p>\n

With her exquisite moor dessert creation, Sustainable Food Artist Anja Fiedler serves food for body and mind, bringing the essence of moors \u2014 garnished with morsels of fact \u2014 literally to our lips. <\/span>Guests embark, with the 9,000-year-old healing moor on their tongues, on an unforgettable journey through time: into the past, but also into <\/span>possible future shaped by moors. Anja Fiedler creates an edible, multisensory dialogue that not only delights the palate, but also inspires reflection and allows a new image of the moor to emerge.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Workshop with Vitor Garcia de Almeida and Veronika Deinbeck<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jellyfish, whales, penguins and boxfish: many fascinating animals live on, in and under water. Some of them are featured in the science exhibition \u2018On Water\u2019. In a creative workshop with artist Vitor Garcia de Almeida and educator Veronika Deinbeck, children aged 9 and above \u2013 accompanied by their parents \u2013 can recreate a selection of aquatic creatures (with the help of instructions) and contribute their own design ideas. Discarded materials from the Humboldt Forum are used. This results in exciting and funny, but also sustainable animals that can be taken home at the end.<\/p>\n

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