{"id":151688,"date":"2025-09-23T11:37:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T09:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/?post_type=event&p=151688"},"modified":"2025-10-13T10:43:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T08:43:45","slug":"the-colours-of-water-brown","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/programm\/termin\/science-and-humanities\/the-colours-of-water-brown-151688\/","title":{"rendered":"The colours of water: brown"},"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

Brown Water<\/h4>\n

Where water is scarce, blue, green, and silver disappear from the landscape. What remains are shades of brown and cracked soil. However, drought also challenges our ingenuity: How can we live, design, and manage with less water? What proven and new ways are there to store, share, and use water sustainably?
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The future of water \u2013 workshop with futurologist Sascha Dannenberg<\/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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How is climate change affecting our waters? How will our rivers react when Lusatia dries up? And will we be swimming everywhere in the city in the future? In an interactive workshop with futurologist Sascha Dannenberg from Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, participants will develop various future scenarios for water in Berlin.<\/p>\n

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What does it sound like when a tree drinks? How are people around the world coping with increasing drought? What does a puddle researcher do? And how do you study water on Mars?<\/p>\n

The exhibition \u2018On Water\u2019 at the Humboldt Lab showcases research projects by Berlin scientists on the topic of water. In a 60-minute tour that takes them from the sea to an artificial iceberg to the stars, children and families learn about the diversity of scientific research on the wet element and the water-related challenges in times of climate crisis.<\/p>\n

Book your free ticket here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Indrawan Prabaharyaka:\u00a0<\/strong>Thirst in the mangrove forest. Using design to reduce inter-species water conflicts<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the mangrove coast of Muara Gembong, a rural area near the megacity of Jakarta in Indonesia, humans and monkeys are increasingly in conflict. Rising temperatures, deforestation, and hyper-salinization are causing freshwater sources in the area to dry up. Unlike the human inhabitants, who can buy bottled water, their non-human neighbors cannot. During prolonged heat waves in the summer, some monkeys were found dead from dehydration. Others searched for water sources near fishing boats and houses, exacerbating the conflict between different species.<\/p>\n

From 2022 to 2025, Indrawan Prabaharyaka collaborated with a multidisciplinary collective called Labtek Apung, which consists of experts in environmental technology, chemistry, architecture, art, and anthropology. Its goal was to better understand the conflict and find solutions. One result of the research is a prototype water collector that can desalinate seawater in the summer and collect rainwater during the monsoon season. While human designers view it as a water collector, non-human users seem to regard it as a toy. So how could the design be approached differently in terms of conflicts between different species?<\/p>\n

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Salam Ebeid: <\/strong>What comes out of the desert sea: fish and other things!<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Red Sea in Egypt is more than a tourist destination. It is home to many tribal communities that live in the mountains and by the sea. Al Ababda struggle against many environmental stressors and \u201ctourist development\u201d that are impacting their traditional way of living and livelihoods. This project primarily explores different bodies of water, the traditional ways of fishing fish but Salam found that women do not only fish for fish but for other things too. Objects and items that come out of the sea are utilized in the everyday. A kind of salvage economy to curb the harshness of the ecology around living in the desert but also by the sea. Hence the sea is not only a source of fish but of other things. The sea is a source of wealth of sustenance. It gives. It expels. It has agency of its own.<\/p>\n

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