AQUAPLAY
A new Tool for Online Education on WAMU-NET website to raise awareness and involve young generations on environmental challenges, protection of water heritage and cultureby coloring!
AQUAPLAY is an educational tool through which students from all over the world can have fun coloring various drawings submitted to the 'The Water We Want', WAMU-NET's Youth Award Contest .
You can color your drawing online and save it as a PDF once you’re happy with the result. Or you can download a copy in black and white and print it so you can color it with the artistic technique you prefer.
Drawings have been arranged in four sections according to different water-related themes:
- Biodiversity and Freshwater Ecosystems
- Water Heritage and Living Waters
- Climate Change, Pollution and Water Scarcity
- Peace and Cooperation through Water
Once you select your drawing, you will be directed to the website of Virtualgeo-UACE to color it online. To color more drawings, please go back to the homepage of WAMU-NET’s website.
AQUAPLAY was implemented thanks to the project CREDIT Creative Europe, in collaboration with DOC Servizi, Virtualgeo and other partners.
‘The Water We Want’ (TWWW) is the Youth Prize Contest organized every year by the Global Network of Water Museums (WAMU-NET) - that is a ‘flagship initiative’ of UNESCO-IHP. The TWWW contest centres on the voices of young students to give them the opportunity to express their authentic perspectives on water heritage and the issues at stake.
Every year, many water museums affiliated to WAMU-NET from all over the world participate in the TWWW competition and submit hundreds of artworks created by students, between the ages of 6 and 25.
Selected drawings for AQUAPLAY reflect the vision of the new generations to preserve water heritage, their critical reflections on water pollution, and proposals of futuristic solutions to solve water scarcity.
In 2024, the prize-giving ceremony of the 5th Edition of TWWW awarded 6 winners and 6 special mentions of deserving artworks from all over the world.
Through the TWWW contest and AQUAPLAY, WAMU-NET aims to strengthen sustainability education and support new water perceptions and behaviors among the younger generation, engaging students as water ambassadors and storytellers of our liquid futures.
