The Rights of a River by Marjetica Potrč in Water Stories

 
 
 

Re-Imagine Water Flows: From Building to River Basin by OOZE Architects investigates the water challenges for the MK&G Building. This work has been specially commissioned for the exhibition.

Water Pressure: Designing for the Future
Hamburg, Zürich, Vienna
2024 - 2025

Water Pressure: Designing for the Future is a major museum exhibition that presents over a decade of Jane Withers Studio’s pioneering research into the future of water.

Water – whether too much or too little, clean or unsafe – is one of the most pressing human preoccupations. Today, we face a global water crisis due mainly to mismanagement and overuse. If we are to share a liveable future for all, including plants and animals, we must urgently rethink how we value and manage this contested resource.

Water Pressure brings together ideas and solutions from across design, science, and activism that offer new perspectives on and understandings of the challenges of water. These approaches look beyond the industrial narrative and current technological and economic focus, embracing local and Indigenous knowledge and foregrounding natural systems and water justice to help shape a more imaginative and resilient water culture. 

A project by MK&G and Jane Withers Studio
Exhibition design: 51N4E, Exhibition graphics: Visual Fields
Photography by Henning Rogge

Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, 15 March - 13 October 2024 View

Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, 29 November 24 - 6 April 2025 View

Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, 21 May 2025 - 7 September 2025 View

Exhibition handout