WATER-BASED

In these times of climate change, drought and heavy downpours, we need a new attitude towards water. Design can help us restore natural balance and strengthen water's regenerative capacity.

The Water Embassy is a partnership between water professionals and designers, who work together on new practical solutions to save water and improve our attitude towards water. The focus is mainly on zone development and housing.

In their design projects, the designers who make up the Water Embassy give priority to it and aim to create a change from a human-centered approach (extracting, using and discharging water) to a more holistic approach centered on life: they borrow, reuse and restore water. Instead of considering water as a product that we can control at our will, we must begin to see water again as a living element that we must take care of. Design can help us restore natural balance and strengthen water's regenerative capacity. In every design process, water itself has a voice on the table, represented by a different water expert each year.

They are currently focusing on urban development, inspiring builders and urban planners to build homes, neighborhoods and habitats that reconnect us with water and contribute to the resilience and health of the entire water ecosystem.

At DIMAD they present five designs, commissioned by the Water Embassy:

• Pozo Humano/Well of Wishes, by the designers Fides Lapidaire and Axel Coumans.
• 2040: Choose what you use, by Studio Corvers (Determine what you use”)
• WatIser? by Studio Rocco Verdult — (What about Water?)
• Visualisations on Regenerative Housing, by mulderendevries/van Gorkom architects (Visualization of regenerative housing)
• Bodies of water, by Fides Lapidaire (Bodies of water)

It is a project supported by the Embassy of the Netherlands in Spain.

In the context of the exhibition, the Regenerative Design for Water workshop will take place, organized by the Dutch designers of Studio Corvers.