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River Landscapes has created a transdisciplinary glossary of water, with contributions from across Europe and South Asia. Click the map or images below to explore-read, hear, view, interact with-the glossary:

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Kaveri

The Body and the Site: scores for being with(in)

This workshop focused on sensorial and performative tools that enable the shift from reading a landscape, using maps and thus being an external, towards being situated within the landscape itself. The process explored what kind of mapping can be created by means of our human senses and bodily experiences.

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Children of the River

Children of the River

This zine explores the many names, personalities and mythology of River Indus. It brings together testimonies from indigenous and local communities that have long engaged with the River, contributions from artists, scientists and cultural practitioners, and reflections on sacred spaces intertwined with it’s history.

An Interactive Soundwalk

River Tones was a sonic walk along Zurich’s Wehrenbach. Led by sound artist Andres Bosshard, flutist Melody Chua, and vocalist Constanza Pellicci, the workshop invited participants to listen with and through the river.

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Once River was the Highway:
Sorbonasha (সর্বনাশা)

Disastrous: A name for River Padma when she is in her full glory, an untamable wilderness, a disastrous love, a plea of a broken heart.

Reimagining the Kaveri

This trilingual glossary brings together multiple words through which one might know the river Kaveri. Multiple words—scientific, cultural, historical, legal, and ecological show how meanings, like rivers, are shaped by time, use, and power.

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