O Fio da Água, EU-funded S+T+ARTS AQUA MOTION project

I am extremely excited to share that my project proposal “O Fio da Água: Embracing Water’s Flow for Resilient Futures” has been one of the selected EU-funded S+T+ARTS AQUA MOTION grant (Science, Technology and Arts initiative).

The call of S+T+ARTS AQUA MOTION addressed pressing water challenges in four countries. 25 artistic projects were selected to be implemented during 13 months, starting October 2025. The selected artists will collaborate with researchers, policymakers, businesses, and local communities to develop sustainable, creative prototypes or artwork addressing the challenges. The challenged I applied for is "Moving Waters – Reimagining Flood Resilience" in Portugal.

“O Fio da Água: Embracing Water's Flow for Resilient Futures” blends artistic research into a transdisciplinary collaboration to transform flood-prone communities' understandings of water uncertainties into imaginative coexistence. The project is envisioned to generate a series of public artistic interventions and collective activities as experimental “flood conversations” through multi-sensorial collective journeys. It aims to reveal hidden water flows and cultivate embodied socio-ecological belonging, empowering individuals to live harmoniously with their dynamic water environment, inspiring behavioural shifts in water attitudes and practices for a more resilient future.

Outcomes include a living archive of sensory practices as a collaborative experimental publication documenting the entire process, outcomes and legacies, providing imaginaries and collaborative actions for sustainable relationships between humans and water.

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This is the reason why I am in Azores Island these days for the conference-presentation of this new project chapter. The photo is from here, the vast Atlantic Ocean with whom I will be collaborating in this project.

More to come soon!