Unfolding sense of water: care across boundaries

The rapid expansion of scientific knowledge on planetary environmental problems has not prevented these from becoming crises,

which, thus far, has revealed the limits of the techno-scientific and political solutions. Caring relationships with the environment emerge

from a personal process based on sense of place – a perception of belonging to and acting as part of one’s own surroundings. This is the

starting point of the Sense of Water project. Integrating science and art, we engage different people and stakeholders to co-create the

boundary concept of sense of water. Therewith, the personal place-bound narratives, literacies, and embodied actions translate to

collective care for water. Water is an element that overcomes myriad physical, biological, societal and personal boundaries, and the care

for water offers vast opportunities for improved wellbeing of humans and the rest of nature.