70% of Earth's
surface is water,
but only 3% of
that is freshwater
and less than 1%
is available to us.
Use it wisely.
An archive of
projects towards a
sustainable future.
Dear 1% Water blog readers,
We are developing an app and need your support : the Wonderwater Diviner,takes a 21st century spin on the ancient and mystical practice of dowsing for water and transforms a mobile phone into a tool for navigating the city from the perspective of water. Part guide, part adventure
Wonderwater celebrated the Open Doors Weekend of the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 with a dramatic installation of ice lanterns by leading Finnish designers to raise awareness of the water footprint in Helsinki’s Senate Square.
Jane was invited to talk about the future of water at the If Conference organised by Intelligence Squared. You can now view the talk online:
http://www.iq2ifconference.com/janewithers.html
When Bernd and Hilla Becher set out to immortalise industrial architecture in the late 1950′s, water towers were one of their chosen targets. Their work aimed not only to draw attention on the beauty of their design, but also to highlight the need for preserving this heritage.
Several recent projects are bringing the water towers back into the spotlight.
Wonderwater Café at Tian Hai, our first Wonderwater project, a pop-up event that took place in a traditional Chinese restaurant in Beijing about the water footprint of food, attracted a lot of attention during Beijing Design Week and was published internationally. See wonderwater.fi
Read about Wonderwater Café in Dezeen: http://tinyurl.com/bvsz2mg
We are now hatching plans for Wonderwater Cafés in 2012 and hunting for locations in London and Helsinki.
Here are the first images of the exhibition Surface Tension: The Future of Water at Science Gallery, Dublin co-curated by Jane Withers. We will be sharing more soon, so keep posted!
Surface Tension opened with the surreal sight of fish floating through the amazing Long Room Library at Trinity College
‘Single Shared Breath’ a video by Emma Critchley, mesmerised us at this year’s RCA show for the London Design Festival. Submerged underwater, a boy and a girl are caught, suspended in a kiss…
Among this year’s treasures at the Royal College of Art show for the London Design Festival, we were impressed by ‘Scale’ a project by Erik de Laurens who has found a way to use the unwanted fish scales, a by-product of the fishing industry, to make a plastic-like material.
This week the first Wonderwater project opened as part of Beijing Design Week.’How much water do you eat? ‘ is a pop-up event exploring the relationship between water and food. Depsite the unexpected complexities of working out the wager footprint of a Chinese menu, the project opened in time and Mr Jia, the photographer owner of Tian Hai restaurant in Dashilan seemed happy if a bit bemused.
A device easily fited to an existing rickshaw that both transports and purifies water
A smart low tech proposal for purifying water as you pedal, Aquadesi ( by University of Hertfordshire Abdullah Miah) is an attachment for existing rickshaw frames that enables the user to transport and purify water through the motion of pedaling.
