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Looking back at the Confluence of European Water Bodies 2024
Modes of activism for nature protection From all over Europe, from Iceland to Poland and Sweden, and from Norway to Spain, to Serbia and the UK, representatives of Europe’s...
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Join us at the Whose Ocean? Assembly!
Whose Ocean? Assembly The ocean is vital for life on earth and climate, yet its voice is rarely heard in law and political decision-making. It is completely unclear who...
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Online water bodies press confluence
The Confluence of European Water Bodies will hold an online press confluence 26 September 2024 from 10:00 – 11:15. This online session will give insight in the foundation, aims,...
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New water bodies collective website: www.water-bodies.eu
Our mission is to listen to, imagine and represent the North Sea as a full-fledged political player, as a person with interests that needs better representation. While working on...
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Not Illegal Fishing Competition @Manifesta15 Barcelona
The mixed media installation of the Not Illegal Fishing Competition will be presented at Casa Gomis from 8 September – 24 November 2024. Invited to take part in the pre-biennial...
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The Salt Mountain of Barcelona: exhibition at Disseny Hub, Barcelona
The ocean speaks. New ecologies and new economies of the seas From October 10 2024, The Embassy of the North Sea presents research and work on the Llobregat Delta...
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Workshop: The river is, how we act
Workshop in Zeeland: The river is, how we act In their artistic practice, Anne Jesuina de Andrade and Theun Karelse (research team Future of the Delta), both have a strong focus on...
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Diplomatic Suitcase at Spore Initiative Berlin
The Diplomatic Suitcase is on display for the first time at Spore Initiative Berlin from July 25 to September 29, 2024 as part of the exhibition Wasserspiegel – Water...
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Confluence of European Water Bodies 2024 in Venice
NEW EDITION OF THE CONFLUENCE OF EUROPEAN WATER BODIES# OCTOBER 3 – 6, 2024 IN VENICE# After a successful first Confluence of European Water Bodies in September 2023 on...
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not illegal fishing competition @ Manifesta 15 Barcelona
Not Illegal Fishing Competition El Llobregat, Barcelona Metropolitana From 11 – 14 July 2024, the Embassy of the North Sea is organising the Not Illegal Fishing Competition in the...
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Save guarding Europe’s last wild rivers
Confluence of European Water Bodies supports Protest Camp Save Komarnica in Montenegro Each waterbody tells its own story. Montenegro’s water stories are as wondrous as they are unknown. From...
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Confluence of European Water Bodies short film released!
March 7 2024, coinciding with our book launch at SEXYLAND World, the Confluence of European Water Bodies short film had its world premiere! At the salt water lagoon the Mar...
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Assembly January 2025: Whose Ocean?
The Embassy of the North Sea is collaborating with Casco Art Institute and other partners on the multidisciplinary research project by the University of Utrecht, called Whose Ocean? When...
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Trailer Confluence of European Water Bodies — Now released!
While we are busy preparing for the second edition of our Confluence of European Water Bodies, we are proud to present the trailer of the Confluence in September 2023....
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Name Your River grassroots impact programme
This spring, the Embassy of the North Sea, together with ZINDOC, will launch the Name Your River grass roots impact programme for the film I Am The River, The River...
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Our new publication: Exercises in Watery Politics
Exercises in Watery Politics Embassy of the North Sea phase 1 / 2018-2023 listening November 15 2023, we will publish our new book: Exercises in Watery Politics. This book is an...
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Confluence of European Water Bodies launched!
Words fail to express the gratitude we feel for what we have experienced in the past three days at the Confluence of European Waters at the Mar Menor, the...
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Proclamation European Waters to the people of Europe
Bruxelles, 18 September 2023 The Confluence of European Waters starts today with a collective and symbolic proclamation of the united water bodies in front of the European Parliament, introduced...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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The City Beyond The Human
Read here The City Beyond The Human, a pre-publication by Darko Lagunas’ for Designing Cities for All, a publication by Pakhuis de Zwijger, November 2022 ‘‘Getting close to the eel means not...
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Eel Park Oosterdok model on view in Arcam
The model for an Eel Park in the Oosterdok, the result of speculative research by landscape architect Thijs de Zeeuw in collaboration with the Embassy of the North Sea,...
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Have we met? – 23rd International Exhibition Triennale Milano
The Embassy of the North Sea and Darko Lagunas are taking in part in the exhibition Have we met? humans and non-humans on common ground, the official Dutch contribution...
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Spanish Congress votes for a new law creating legal personhood for Mar Menor
Congratulations to our Spanish partners ILP Mar Menor! Yesterday, July 13 2022, the Spanish Congress voted in favor of a new law, creating legal personhood for the Mar Menor...
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the Audement no.2 in Museum Arnhem
In the renovated Museum Arnhem, the Embassy of the North Sea presents the Audement no.2 in the exhibition Consume by. the Audement The Embassy of the North Sea listens...
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(Re)Configuring More-than-human Normativities
The Embassy of the North Sea participates in the conference: (Re)Configuring More-than-human Normativities. Strategic Litigation, Collective Actions, and Sensing Technologies 20 May 2022 @ De Ceuvel, Amsterdam Which modes...
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Publication F/EEL by Sheng-Wen Lo & Yi-Fei Chen @Jeu de Paume
Thanks Jeu de Paume & Federica Chiocchetti for publishing the F/EEL project, by Sheng-Wen Lo & Yi-Fei Chen, commissioned by the Embassy of the North Sea! Federica Chiocchetti: ‘’F/EEL,...
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Spanish Mar Menor to become legal entity with own rights
On Tuesday 5th of April at 3 PM the Spanish Congress in Madrid decide to grant legal personality to the Mar Menor, a lagoon near Murcia in southern Spain. It...
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LISTEN TO SEASYNTHESIS: SOUND COMPOSITION FOR RĪVUS BIENNALE OF SYDNEY, 2022
The Embassy of the North Sea is participating in the 23rd Sydney Biennale together with artist Xandra van der Eijk. The title of this international contemporary art event, from...
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Bewegung für die Rechte der Natur — review in Taz
Berlin-based daily newspaper Taz published a great article by Astrid Kaminski, 8 februari 2022 with the title: Bewegung für die Rechte der Natur: Robben und Seepferdchen, The article features the...
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Ghost Reef at the biennale of Sydney
The Embassy of the North Sea is participating in the 23rd Biennale of Sydney, together with artist Xandra van der Eijk (1985) The title of this major international contemporary...
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International Panel: La ILP del Mar Menor
On February 9, 10 and 11 2022, the Embassy of the North Sea will participate in the international panel Rights of nature on six continents, the sea and the...
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Dutch launch: Compendium Rights of Nature @ Framer Framed
The Embassy of the North Sea and Framer Framed cordially invite you to the event Rights of Nature in Europe, on the occasion of the launch of the Dutch...
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BOOK LAUNCH COMPENDIUM RIGHTS OF NATURE AT OCEAN SPACE, VENICE
With: Jessica den Outer, Laura Burger, Daphina Misiedjan, Klaas Kuitenbrouwer, Justin Sobion and Shrishtee Bajpai. Moderated by Harpo ‘t Hart In our time of ecological crisis, the law may...
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Embassy participates in the 23rd Biennale of Sydney
The Embassy of the North Sea is participating in the 23rd Biennale of Sydney. The title of this major international contemporary art event, which will be open to the...
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European Maritime Day: Ocean Literacy and Soft Power
The Embassy of the North Sea is one of the participants of the European Maritime Day, 20 & 21 May 2021. European Maritime Day this year is going virtual from...
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Embassy of the North Sea in Domus magazine
The Embassy of the North Sea is featured in DOMUS: magazine for architecture, design and art lovers, the May 2021 issue. ”This is what inspires the Embassy of the North Sea...
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the Embassy participates in: ELECTIONS ARE NOT ENOUGH!
March 14 2021, on the eve of the Dutch parliamentary elections, the Embassy of the North Sea/ Harpo ‘t Hart participates in the livestream event Elections are not enough!,...
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The embassy participates in conference of the Greens/ EFA in the European Parliament
Tuesday February 23, 2021 at 6.30 pm, the Embassy of the North Sea / Anne van Leeuwen, participates in the online conference: Nature’s voice: How to represent nature in...
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Order a sea breeze and support the Embassy of the North Sea!
ZEELUCHT is a new and exclusive scent artwork, developed by scent artist Frank Bloem, commissioned by the Embassy of the North Sea. Like a brisk stroll along the North...
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Thijs de Zeeuw Architect in Residence 2021 at ARCAM
From May 2021, landscape architect Thijs de Zeeuw will be Architect in Residence at ARCAM, Architectuurcentrum Amsterdam, congratulations Thijs! Every year, ARCAM offers two AiR’s a platform to deepen their...
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Embassy of the North Sea curator of Brandstof: Holocene Memorial
Brandstof is the in-depth programme to accompany the exhibition A New Order | A New Earth at Garage Rotterdam (20 November 2020 – 10 April 2021). The Embassy of...
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Welcome to the Parliament of Things
On November 24 2020, the French sociologist and philosopher Bruno Latour (1949) was awarded the Spinozalens 2020 by Mayor of Amsterdam Femke Halsema in Felix Meritis, Amsterdam. In the...
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voices of the North Sea at NEMO’s de studio
Contributions by: Jesper Buursink, Xandra van der Eijk & Katja Philippart (Underwater Noise); Maarten Erich, Thijs de Zeeuw & Sheng-Wen Lo ism Yi-Fei Chen (A Voice for the Eel); Theun Karelse, Maarten Kleinhans &...
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Speaker for the deaf winner design challenge
The winner of the design challenge Give a Voice to the North Sea is Speaker for the Deaf by design team Tjesse Riemersma, Jesse Havinga, Jos Spijkerman, Marieke Druiven, Olivia D’cruz, Marina...
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Three finalists Give a Voice to the North Sea
Friday 23 October 2020, the jury selected the three finalists of the design challenge Give a Voice to the North Sea at NEMO’s De Studio. The jury, chaired by Daan Roovers,...
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Award ceremony Spinozalens 2020: Bruno Latour
On November 24 2020, the French sociologist and philosopher Bruno Latour (1949) was awarded the Spinozalens 2020 by Mayor of Amsterdam Femke Halsema. This event was organised by the...
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Podcast Voices of the North Sea
Radio maker Jesper Buursink (a regular contributor among others to the nature programme Vroege Vogels) has joined editor Carlijn Haringsma and radio maker Eli Guerrero in creating the podcast...
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Three North Sea cases in 2020
In 2020, the Embassy will be carrying out in-situ interdisciplinary research into three North Sea cases: Future of the Delta, Underwater Noise in the North Sea and A Voice...
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Spinozalens 2019-2020 to Bruno Latour
On 21 November 2019, in the official residence of the Amsterdam mayor, the Spinozalens 2019-2020 was awarded to the French philosopher and sociologist Bruno Latour. It was an honour...
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