Porto, Portugal, 8-11 October 2024
Download here the Conference's conclusions and the Press Release
PROGRAMME
Wednesday 9 October - Day 1
Cities of Water: Mapping our Liquid Heritage
WELCOME SPEECHES
- Rui Moreira (City Mayor of Porto)
- Abou Amani (Director of the Division of Water Sciences and Secretary UNESCO-IHP)
- Jyoti Hosagrahar (Deputy Director, UNESCO-WHC)
- José Carlos Pimenta Machado (President of the Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente)
- Luis Chainho (Representative of the National Portugal Committee of UNESCO-IHP)
- Ruben Fernandes (Executive Administrator of Águas e Energia do Porto)
- Yongming Chen (Deputy President of the Global Network of Water Museums)
Presentation of the interview schedule
During the conference, interviews on water heritage and educational activities of water museums will be conducted by the UNESCO Chair of TU Delft (NL) with interviews to all conference participants
https://www.portcityfutures.nl/unesco-chair/blue-papers-valuing-water-and-culture
Session 1 - CITIES OF WATER IN PORTUGAL
Chair: José Guilherme Abreu (Historian, R3IAP, Rede Portuguesa de Arte Pública, UCP-Porto, Portugal)
Keynote: Carola Hein (UNESCO Chair ‘Water, Ports and Historic Cities’, TU Delft, the Netherlands):
Building with water. Mapping Portugal’s port cities and water heritage
Roundtable 'Connecting Water, Culture, and Heritage'
- Sara Ahmed (Deputy President of WAMU-NET, Director of the Living Waters Museum, India)
- Mário Mesquita (Architect, Professor at FAUP, AEdP Heritage Advisor, Portugal)
- Helena Cardoso (Museu da Água e Resíduos, SMAS de Sintra)
- Ian Kerr Wilson (WAMU-NET, Canada)
Session 2 - MAPPING OUR LIQUID HERITAGE FOR WATER SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION
Chair: Mariana Castro Henriques (Director of the Museu da Agua, Lisbon, Portugal)
Keynotes:
- Alexander Otte (UNESCO-IHP): The role of WAMU-NET in the Ninth Phase of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme
- Eriberto Eulisse (Executive Director, Global Network of Water Museums): Mapping Ancient Hydro-Technologies (AHTs) for the upcoming Virtual Science Museum of UNESCO and the World Inventory of water museums (WIN)
Archaeological and Industrial Heritage and Digital Museums
- Alioune Dème (Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal): Artificial Intelligence as a tool for diversity and memory inclusion: the case of symbolic water holes
- Bárbara Rangel (FEUP Porto, Portugal): The archaeological and industrial heritage of water in Portugal
- Matteo D’Agostino and Foteini Tsigoni (TU Delft, Netherlands): Step two of WAMU-NET’s World Inventory of Water Museums (WIN): Getting started with the Netherlands
- Débora Silva (Responsible for the historical heritage of the AEdP, Portugal): Virtual and digital museums
Continuation and Q&A session
Conclusions of Day 1
- Ruben Fernandes (Executive Administrator of Águas e Energia do Porto)
- Ian Kerr Wilson (WAMU-NET, Canada)
Networking Cocktail and promenade through the city centre
Thursday 10 October - Day 2
Water Sustainability Education for Peace and Prosperity
Session 3 - TOWARD AN ONLINE REPOSITORY OF EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES: CONTRIBUTIONS FROM AND TO WATER MUSEUMS
Chair: Farah Kabir (Director, ActionAid Bangladesh)
Speakers:
- Lucrezia Gigante (Global Network of Water Museums): An Introduction to WAMUNET’s Online Repository for Water Education
- Ellen Freedman Schultz (Fairmount Interpretive Center, Philadelphia, US)
- Sara Ahmed (Living Waters Museum, India)
- Vicky Malotidi (MIO-ECSDE/HYDRIA, Athens, Greece)
- Margarida Filipe and Barbara Sofia Bruno (Museu da Agua, Lisboa, Portugal)
- Patrizia Famà and Chiara Steffanini (MUSE – Natural Science Museum of Trento, Italy)
- Gimenez Serra Eudald (Museu de l’Agua y el Textil, Manresa, Spain)
Continuation and Q&A session
Breakout rooms: Purpose and features of WAMU-NET’s Online Repository for Water Education
Reporting to the plenary, discussion, and conclusion
Rapporteurs:
Victor Croitoru (Board member of WAMU-NET and Director of the Water Museum ‘L.Truta’, Apa Somes, Cluj, Romania); Karin Wundsam (Director, Danube Water-Adventure, Austria); Manuel Sapiano (Director, The Energy & Water Agency, Malta); Anna Brusarosco (University of Udine, Italy)
Interactive Networking and Video Session
- Sandra de Vries, Gabriela Costea and Pippa de Kinder (‘Danube4all’ project): Puzzle Wall for Interactive Collaboration: exploring the Danube through ideas of co-creating a travelling exhibition on the multiple human relationships with water.
- Abdennabi El Mandour (Deputy President of WAMU-NET and Director of the Water Civilization Museum of Morocco ‘Mohammed VI’): ‘The Moroccan Khettara’: a videoclip by Alaoui Lalla Badr Saoud (FMCIM). Report on the reconstruction of the Water Mill of Ouirgane, Atlas Mountains.
- Linda Lilienfeld (the Netherlands): ‘Let’s talk about water’. Open discussion.
Cultural Visits
The Water Heritage of Porto and the Parque Patrimonial das Águas
Gala Dinner
Friday 11 October - Day 3
Project and Opportunities for Networking
Session 4 - GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE GLOBAL NETWORK OF WATER MUSEUMS
Chair: Eddy Moors (President of WAMU-NET and Rector of IHE Delft, the Netherlands)
Part 1: Projects and opportunities for networking: Building Cultural Bridges through Water Museums
- Javier Taks (UNESCO Chair ‘Water and Culture’, Udelar, Uruguay): Book announcement ‘A guide to water museums in Latin America and the Caribbean’ (in cooperation with the UNESCO PHI Regional Office, Montevideo)
- Karl M. Wantzen (UNESCO Chair ‘Rivers and Heritage’, University of Strasbourg, France): Book presentation ‘Life as a Dance to the Rhythm of Waters’. A UNESCO study on biocultural diversity in the world’s riverscapes
- Margarita Maruškić Kulaš, Ivana Kaleb Vuletić, and Eriberto Eulisse (‘CREDIT’ project): ‘AQUAPLAY’ - a new educational tool for online colouring on WAMU-NET website. Presentation of the MoU with different WAMU-NET members
- Sandra de Vries, Gabriela Costea and Pippa de Kinder (‘Danube4all’ project): The Healthy Danube Network - Share and Co-create Exhibitions and Citizen Science Methods
- Yixin Cao (University of Lyon, France): A survey on human-river relationships through museums
- Sara Ahmed and Amitangshu Acharya (‘Aquamuse’ project): Reimagining Water Museums
Part 2: Signing of Partner Agreements
- Manuel Sapiano (The Energy & Water Agency, Malta) and Osvaldo Martinez Torres (Instituto Nacional de Recursos Hidraulicos, Cuba): Signing of the MoU between the Ghajn Interpretive Centre, Malta, and the Albear Aqueduct Museum, La Habana, Cuba.
- Javadianzadeh Mohammadmahdi (ICQHS UNESCO Cat.2 Centre, Yazd, Iran) and Raffaele Iovine (‘Lapis’ Water Museum, Naples, Italy): Signing of the MoU between the Yazd Water Museum, Iran, and the Water Museum of Naples ‘Lapis’, Italy.
- Signature of MoUs ‘AQUAPLAY’ (between WAMU-NET and different members)
Part 3: Contributions from WAMU-NET members and open debate
Chairs: Gisela Herrerias (Deputy President of WAMU-NET and Director of the Water Museum ‘Agua Para Siempre’, Puebla, Mexico), Francisco Almenar Cubells (Water Tribunal of Valencia, Spain) and Eriberto Eulisse (Executive Director of WAMU-NET, Italy)
- Rashad Salim and Hannah Lewis (Open Museum Initiative for Water Culture; Basra, Iraq)
- Liliana Pena Naval (Brazilian Water Museum, Tocantins, Brazil)
- Evelyn Arias Garriga, Yanet Morales Mesa, and José Antonio Yanez Balbuena (Albear Aqueduct Museum, La Habana, Cuba)
- Margarita Maruškić Kulaš and Ivana Kaleb Vuletić (AQUATIKA, Karlovac, Croatia)
- Alessandro Capati (Multimedia Museum of the Marmore Waterfalls, Terni, Italy)
- Alassane Samoura (Musée de l’Eau, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)
Communications from new members
- Rosso Rogerio, Raimundo Ribeiro, Vinícius Benevides, Felix Palazzo, and Apolinário Rebelo (International Water Memorial MINA, ADASA, Brasilia, Brazil)
- Daniel Manyaka (Musée de l’Eau Siga-Bonjo, Cameroun)
- Alioune Dème and Ornella Tchanque Kanda Leni (Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal)
- Anna Brusarosco (University of Udine, Italy)
- Claude Frangin (L’Eau à Lyon et la Pompe de Cornouailles, France)
- Gianfranco Brivio (Ecomuseum ‘Adda di Leonardo’, Milano, Italy)
- Raffaele Iovine, Pina Ciotola and Ivan Varriale (‘Lapis’ Water Museum, Naples, Italy)
- Michelle Boyle (artist, Ireland)
Report on interviews for the Blue Papers: Water and Heritage for Sustainable Development
Carlien Donkor, Matteo D’Agostino and Foteini Tsigoni (UNESCO Chair, TU Delft)
Open debate and Q&A
- Jianping Wang (Yellow River Museum, China)
- Leordan Loredana (Aquatim Water Museum Timisoara, Romania)
- Javier Rodes (Museos de Mequinenza, Mequinenza, Spain)
- Šárka Jiroušková (Historical Wastewater Treatment Plant, Prague, Czech Republic)
- Deirdre Crowe (Water Museum of Ireland)
- Ron Karels and Hugo Snabilie (Broekerveiling Water Museum, the Netherlands)
- Raul Hernandez Garciadiego (Water Museum ‘Agua Para Siempre’, Puebla, Mexico)
Conference conclusions: WAMU-NET’s contribution to IHP Phase 9 and to the Water Agenda 2030
- Eddy Moors (President of WAMU-NET and Rector of IHE Delft, the Netherlands)
- Filipe Araújo (President of Águas e Energia do Porto, Portugal)
Cultural Visits
The Sewage Heritage of Porto and the Exhibition ‘Brasília, from Utopia to the Capital’, curated by D. Athayde at the Instituto Pernambuco.
The International Water Memorial Project (MINA) coordinated by ADASA, Brazil.
Saturday 12 October - Day 4
Field trip (only for participants already registered)
Douro, UNESCO World Heritage: A Cultural, Evolving and Living Landscape.
Field trip from Porto to Pocinho on the river Douro
Itinerary: Porto – Peso da Régua (ship) / Peso da Régua – Porto (bus)
Tuesday 8 October - Pre-conference working session
Waterviews: How can mapping facilitate a better understanding of water systems and practices in cities and landscapes? Past, present and future perspectives
Carola Hein and Yvonne van Mil, TU Delft, UNESCO Chair ‘Water, Ports and Historic Cities’