Digital River Twins
The 'Digital River Twins' project proposes a more-than-human approach to the right to the city - one that recognizes rivers as active participants in urban life. To reclaim this right, we must rebuild our emotional, sensory, and ethical relationships with water bodies. Rivers should be seen and treated as living beings, not merely as resources or infrastructure to be exploited or controlled. This shift calls for a move away from extractive, anthropocentric thinking and toward a vision of the city grounded in respect, reciprocity, and coexistence.
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Ecological Issue
In today’s cities, rivers are often confined, buried, or ignored, deepening the disconnect between people and these vital ecosystems. Climate change and human pressures have intensified floods and droughts, reinforcing the view of rivers as hazards or obstacles to manage. Reduced to infrastructure, they lose their ecological, cultural, and emotional significance. Our approach seeks to support a more intimate relationship between urban dwellers and rivers — shifting from control and efficiency toward attention, co-presence, and care. By using environmental sensing and DIY technologies like programmed microcontrollers, we aim to make rivers felt, not just measured.
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