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Confluence of European Water Bodies about to start at Mar Menor
From September 22 – 24 2023, the first Confluence of European Water Bodies will take place. During the conference, water bodies from all over Europe will meet for an intercultural exchange on the representation of water in Europe’s cultural, political and legal realm. The Confluence of European Waters will take place at the Mar Menor, …
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Conference of European Waters — early iterations, by Mekhala Dave
June 2023 Initiated as a multi-year project, the Conference of European Waters was launched in March 2023 to draw on fluid networks of active collaborations to situate rights of water bodies in European policy frameworks. As a milestone and to celebrate the Mar Menor’s legal personhood, the first iteration of the in-person gathering will be …
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Embassy of the North Sea research partner of Manifesta 15 | Barcelona!
Proud to announce that the Embassy of the North Sea is one of the research partners for Manifesta 15 | Barcelona! On invitation by Manifesta, the Embassy of the North Sea (artists Sheng Wen Lo & Leon Lapa Pereira) has been doing field research on the Llobregat Delta. The Llobregat Delta is suffering from drought …
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Fieldwork Station Living Harbour
On invitation by Ruigoord, as part of their 50th anniversary programme, the Embassy of the North Sea will present the multi-sensory Fieldwork Station Living Harbour from 23 June 2023. Especially for the exhibition Oasis of Wonder, the Embassy of the North Sea is investigating the relationship between Ruigoord and its opposite neighbour, the world’s largest petroleum …
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Launch of the Conference of European Waters on World Water Day
On 22 March 2023, World Water Day, the Embassy of the North Sea announced the launch of a new multi-year project, the Conference of European Waters. The Embassy of the North Sea strives for a blueprint for an ecological policy in 2030, also in Europe. Together with our partners from the ILP Mar Menor (ES), Ocean …
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GERMAN TRANSLATION COMPENDIUM RIGHTS FOR NATURE!
Today, March 15, 2023, the Compendium Rights for Nature, written by Jessica den Outer and Laura Burgers commissioned by the Embassy of the North Sea, is launched in the German-speaking region. Hirzel Verlag has released the publication under the title: Das meer klagt an! We hope that, like in the Netherlands, the publication will inspire …
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black flags and the Mar Menor
Lawyer and cultural anthropologist Carolijn Terwindt from the Embassy of the North Sea went to Spain, where she visited the initiators of the law that made the highly polluted lagoon Mar Menor a legal entity. Visiting the Mar Menor By Carolijn Terwindt, 28 September 2022 At 2.30 AM in the morning, I was waiting with …
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The Audement at IABR
The Embassy of the North Sea presented – together with Studio Ossidiana (Giovanni Bellotti and Alessandra Covini) an edition of the Audement at the 10th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, from 22 September – 13 November 2022. it’s about time Fifty years after the publication of the Club of Rome report, the 10th edition of the …
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Anguilla Anguilla now online
Environmental sociologist Darko Lagunas wondered what human beings can learn from eels. Commissioned by the Embassy of the North Sea, he sought out people with a special, embodied relationship with the eel. As part of his ethnographic research, he created a series of short, filmed portraits in which ‘eel interpreters’ attempt to answer this question. The video’s …
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Moot court in the Peace Palace, The Hague
Renewal in law: The North Sea speaks The Embassy of the North Sea organised a Moot (or practice court) on 6 October 2022 in the Peace Palace in The Hague. This legal exercise was an opportunity to examine how non-human voices can be heard in a courtroom. During the experiment, the North Sea requested the …
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