Collective Imagination through Art in Times of Ecological Uncertainty

By questioning the rigid separation between nature and culture, two artistic experiments with children and water boards in the Netherlands allowed to imagine new forms of dialogue and coexistence between humans and non-humans. We are living in a time of far-reaching climate change, confronting the Netherlands as a waterland with periods of both drought and extreme flooding. Already in 1995, the vulnerability of the Dutch landscape became apparent when river water flooded the A2 highway south...