This interactive program spread over the period of a month invites young participants form Egypt and UK to create collaborative digitally located art projects that will be loaded into an interactive open access map. Framed by contemplative ecology, the focus will be on using locative media technologies and other collaborative tools to codesign ecological restoration art projects along the rivers Nile (Egypt) and Thames (UK).

The program includes a series of online talks and interviews with significant thinkers and doers, remote performances and simultaneous actions that create the environment for group exchange, learning and creating. The workshops will be timetabled over a 4- week period in three sections, online board game, online lectures performative and outdoors talks/ group discussions.

The Reading Water project focuses on interdisciplinary and collaborative ways of working with researchers, participants and an international network of locative media experts and programmers (Supercluster). It aims to mobilise action by raising awareness on the preservation of water, water cleanliness, sacred water and cultural flow through a contemplative ecology of empathy, collaboration, imagination and innovation.

An open online introduction session for all interested to apply or with a general interest in the topic of Contemplative Ecology and Locative Media will be organized at the end of October. Let us know your interest here and we’ll send you an invitation.