Theme 76: Water

Edinburgh is amazing, you don't have to plan a great long holiday, you can have micro-adventures right here

It's not for everybody going swimming in the sea or in any cold water but it's about doing something that challenges you and doing something that is out of your comfort zone

When I am in the water I feel safe, like my joints start to loosen I feel light and I don't feel pain anymore

For me getting into the water is a mindful practice

I found that people were coming to the water for healing

A gente ter um pouquinho de empatia, dentro dos nosso privilégios. Compra um sabonete, compra um lenço umedecido fornece para as pessoas em situação de rua.

E a água que fluía dentro do Rio Guaíra, eu moro ao lado, ela começou a vazar e a transbordar. Porque a canalização do Rio Guaíra, são 4 quilômetros de rio e na margem, dentro do rio, são 10 metros de concreto. A água não vai sair de lá. Ela vai pra cima.

Na região onde eu moro, há dois ou três anos, deram início a umas obras.

E como aquariana, eu sou uma mulher que sempre penso a frente e estar diante de tudo, por que a gente sabe, o que que vai faltar no nosso mundo se a gente não cuidar?

Além de tudo eu sou aquariana, nasci dia 9 de fevereiro, mais água aí!

Eu sou umbamdista e na umbanda eu sou filha de Oxum, que é a mãe das águas doces.

Eu sou PHD em enchente

La actualización del plan maestro en panama es el plan que controla los desbordes de las aguas residuales en Panamá.

En Panamá hay cuencas urbanas.

Hay que hacer conciencia de una manera visual y creativa.

El agua se organiza para poder servirnos .

El agua y la creatividad se conectan.

Hay una problematica mundial respecto al agua .

In order to pull this job off, they take this barge here, and bring this barge underneath the span at low tide, and then wait for the tide to rise. Then once the bottom quarter of this truss make contact with the barge, they cut away the steal, and then float this section right out.

Without the volunteer help to start a company with no money it was not going to work. You need a community, a building community, that spreads the word itself—they're all ambassadors, you need them to build the ship, or a project like this. As you know, 'cause you're all creative people—If you're creative, you find creative people to realize something, right?

We came aboard the Europa to say: "Is there another way of transporting goods from A to B, without having pollution?" Well, it was obvious that WE were transported across the Atlantic, by sailing vessel. So, why couldn't we then transport coffee, or cocoa, or olive oil to and from the Carribean?

When you have tough conversations, when you have moments where you have to build relationships and build the love, it has to be done in person.

Demonstrate your value at all interactions. This means you sort of have to be ‘on’ all the time.

Do truly great work that has measurable results.

You have to love what you do, and you have to show it.

água não tem cabelo!

sejamos todos inteiros

é treta a vida toda

você vive sem luz, mas não vive sem água

pobre nunca tem nada e quando tem perde tudo

água no umbigo sinal de perigo

Be kind and stay flossy [transparent]. Give yourself some grace.

Figure out what you need to do to rejuvenate and to slow down. Refresh yourself.

Don’t fight your environment, but rather, learn to thrive in the circumstances you’re given.

That’s the true value of creative pursuits: it pushes us to constantly strive for that excellence and well-being.

If water is a necessity for our survival, creativity is a necessity for our souls.

Improving your well-being in a sustainable, holistic manner was the way to go. It had to be a long-term focus—not a short-term focus.

Creativity and well-being are very interconnected.

Immersion in nature was life-changing for my mental health.

I think joy is worth cultivating.

What do people get wrong? What do you see that others don’t? What subject interests you that is being passed over by everyone else? That is where the start of your story is.

I need to live in a world that rewards bravery over conformity.

Part of the reason that there are so many misleading or limited narratives in culture is that we need more storytellers. We need more nuance.

Creative work is an anchor to our essential selves. The projects you are attracted to reveal a part of who you are.

Cancer untethered me, and I liberated myself.

There's so much opportunity for us to transform and evolve if we're not scared of what might lie ahead of us. If we stick so firmly in the rivers that are comfortable to us we might not ever break free finding the cracks and crevices that water tends to find, being fluid and open to new opportunities that might come our way.

Chasing dreams may force you to make some very difficult decisions. It means taking risks, stepping outside your comfort zone, doing tough things to make you grow.

When I get out in the world and I’m giving talks to zoos and aquariums and science centers who are not, who don’t think of the arts as their main thing, I get to teach them that you know why this works? Because art is an important language and you have to know how to use it.

...we are seduced by the beauty and color and wonderful things that we can get in plastic.

I’ve always liked to do art that people can touch, that isn’t precious.

We are doing it to educate a global audience about plastic pollution specifically in the ocean (it's now considered one ocean, by the way).

Like water everything flows and changes.

It's not easy going through that much change, and flow.

أجمل أماكن الغوص اللي شهدها الجيل اللي قبلي اصبحت صحراء ولو استمرينا على نفس التصرفات في عدم المحافظة على البيئة لن يرى الجيل القادم شيئا وسيدفع ثمن كل تصرفاتنا.

Let's try to raise water awareness even with a word or a message.

Before diving my life was black&white, but after diving my life became colorful as corals.

.قبل الغوص كانت حياتي ابيض واسود وبعد الغوص صارت حياتي ملونة

In water you can't feel your weight.

Thanks to the sea. I now have a community that is encouraging friends to me.

البحر خلق لي مجتمع وصداقات

Water changed my life. It brought life to my soul.

.المويه غيرت حياتي واضافت لها روح

لما نزلت و شفت الجمال اللي شفته تحت...طلعت من المويه انسانة مختلفة تماما كاني انولدت من جديد.

The power of collaboration and design to tell a story

Designers have the power and responsibility to challenge existing models, search out opportunity and create more intelligent solutions for our planet

Designers can be activists and agents for change