Stories

Through the videos and interviews in this section, you can dive deeper into different ‘water worlds’ with stories that highlight diverse water-related perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors. Such a heritage is historically and deeply embedded in specific material cultures, societies, and cultures – also including intangible values related to our watery past. Here, a selection of videos made by our members illustrates how it’s possible to capture the attention of the public and young people to promote a better understanding of the value of water.

Youth and the water heritage of sailing traditions in Venice

This short video shows how a new series of digital audio guides aimed at promoting sustainable tourism in Venice were created and co-designed by young students. Digital itineraries on foot and by bicycle invite visitors to discover a “forgotten Venice” – the genuine urban fabric neglected by mass tourism but still existing in some authentic areas of the city, as well as the fascinating and silent lagoon islands.

Enjoy for free the #5 digital audio guides which in 2019 were awarded as “Destination of Sustainable Cultural Tourism” in Europe: “Explore forgotten Venice and its sailing traditions”
Made by: Eriberto Eulisse, Francesco Visentin, Massimo Bassan and Davide Stefanato.

Supported by: Interreg Central Europe Programme

Earth Flow – pecq & Orchestra of St John’s

Composed by Limpet Space Race (Hannah Jacobs and Nicholas O’Brien), Earth Flow is the first in a series of new electro-orchestral compositions that meld Orchestra of St. John’s string with researchers’ field recordings and the band’s experimental DIY electronics, creating vivid and moving soundscapes that raise awareness about global water security.
Earth Flow is a collaboration with research documentary project Himalayas To Ocean, exploring themes of erosion, landslides and climate change.

Composers: Limpet Space Race (Hannah Jacobs and Nicholas O’Brien)

Videographers: Siobhán Cox and Ross Harrison

Video Director and Editor: Ross Harrison

Lords Crew – Linz Murales

The LORDS CREW was invited to contribute a painting to the Mural Harbor in Linz, one of Austria’s most innovative spots for Urban Art and muralism.The LORDS (Legends Of Rare Designs), founded in 1986 in San Jose, is a collective of Graffiti artists from California with members in Austria. To strengthen their special connection, austrian crew members FADER, NYCHOS, PHEKT, SHED and SHUE77 invited Graffiti legend Lord QUAKE from San Francisco to paint this large scale mural together with them. ”Lords Of The Red Dragon” is the bursting outcome of a small crew reunion and celebrates the artists’ mutual love to Graffiti.

The invisible water

The video explores the perspective of users of traditional ‘tankas’ which is a rainwater harvesting system found in old homes in the pols of Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

Made by Sayali Mandlik, Shweta yadav, Milan K Manoj, Manoj M.
Copyrights : NID open elective 2018

Crossing the River

The video explores the history of bridges in India and more specifically, the city of Pune in Maharashtra.

Made by Akshay Shete and Amit Tandon.
Copyright: Living Waters Museum

The giant of the Danube – animated film

The video explores the value of rivers and the function of aquatic ecosystems for life using the capturing language of animated films.

Made by Danube-World of Engelhartszell with water adventure Mini-Danube.

Waterfront: follow the sun

Enter the spectacular world of solagraphy – the art of capturing the sun’s journey across the sky reflected on historic waterways (on the Bridgwater & Taunton Canal).

Made by Canal & River Trust – National Waterways Museum

The last boatman of Venice’s inland waterways

This video interview to Riccardo Cappellozza (1935-2020), the “last boatman” of Venetian inland waterways, recalls the fluvial trade which was characterizing a great number of rivers and navigable canals located in Venice’s hinterland until the 1950s. A unique network of waterways which can be used today by residents and visitors for new recreational practices, but also as an important asset for ecosystem regeneration as set by the SDGs – Sustainable Development Goals.

Made by: Francesco Visentin and Eriberto Eulisse.

The museum of Venice’s sailing traditions

Germano da Preda is keeper of the Arzanà (the historical “arsenal” of Venice, in the local dialect) – which is the only museum dedicated to sailing traditions in Venice. In this video interview, he illustrates some traditional objects of a unique water heritage. Historical boats, artefacts and tools are kept still in a squero: the typical family boatyard for the making and maintenance of gondolas passed down over generations.

Enjoy for free more video interviews and the digital audio guide which in 2019 was awarded as “Destination of Sustainable Cultural Tourism” in Europe: “Venice: Explore forgotten Cannaregio and its sailing traditions”

Made by: Eriberto Eulisse, Francesco Visentin, Massimo Bassan and Davide Stefanato.

Supported by: Interreg Central Europe Programme

The art of making oarlocks for wooden boats

A video interview to Saverio Pastor, one of the few Venetian craftsmen who is keeping the secrets of wooden oarlocks’ production for gondolas and other traditional boats. Oarlocks are one of the last authentic artefacts originally made in Venice – a city today impacted strongly and negatively by mass overtourism and globalized products.

Made by: Eriberto Eulisse, Francesco Visentin, Massimo Bassan and Davide Stefanato.

Supported by: Interreg Central Europe Programme