Following the GES 2022 Summit, we're pleased to share the innovative projects developed by our ARTS 490 students throughout the Winter 2022 course, Water in the World: Environment, Knowledge, Ethics, and Practice.
Wetlands
Group members David Ballesteros, Jordan Lam, Mara Peever, Jamie Shigeishi and Thea Taylor created an interactive storymap that explores the history, importance and conservation of Ontario's Wetlands.
Waterloo Garden Calendar
"2022 is a new year--a year in which we can learn more and grow healthier as a result... and we want to do the same thing with our gardens. This calendar and its core message is to foster better land and water stewardship through education and collaboration. We added important historical, scientific, and community knowledge to this calendar to emphasize the role gardening plays in connecting us to the land and water we rely on, as well as to one another. Most of Waterloo's residents share the same climate experiences, geological history, and water source."
Check out Aman Dhindsa and Julia Baribeau's Garden Calendar.
Water as an Entity: Podcast
Group members Harisaa Selvanayagam, Suhera Hussain, Alexis Windatt and Sabina Arawindan created the "Water as an Entity" podcast. It aims to explore the possibility of achieving legal personhood for water bodies around the world.
"We navigate conversations with researchers, scientists, artists and activists to hear their thoughts on seeing water as a living entity and how that impacts their work."
Saving Billy's Home
Ashley Benjamin created a children's book about a sea turtle called Saving Billy's Home, with illustrations by Denise Le.
Read Saving Billy's Home (PDF)
The Commodification of Water
Hadeel Biram and Rubama Marookh Rahman created digital images to illustrate how water has been commodified.
Gendered Impacts of Water Insecurity in Sub-saharan Africa: a Ted Talk
Satveer Dhillon created a presentation discussing the gendered impacts of water insecurity in Sub-saharan Africa.
Who is Laurel Creek?
Khashish Grover and Ruchi Hamal have created a website, tributary of Laurel Creek, to teach us more about the history of the area and to provide results from their water testing.
Capturing hope and loss
