This workshop focuses on creating new river narratives through collective storytelling and embodied writing. Participants are invited to co-write with the river—not as a backdrop, but as a living collaborator. Drawing from local myths and personal memory, we explore how water shapes imagination, perception, and language.

Using a method we call “river writing,” we attune to flow, erosion, and entanglement—listening to how the river moves through stories and how stories move through us. The goal is to generate site-specific texts that reflect the presence and agency of the river itself.

Together, we imagine new relationships with water, composing speculative and experiential texts that contribute to River Landscapes: A New Glossary, a project that brings together art, science, and storytelling to rethink how we live with rivers.

Key objectives:

– Co-create new river stories through collective authorship

– Explore the imaginative and ecological potential of narrative

– Engage with water as a co-writer and presence

– Contribute to a growing glossary of diverse river relationships

This workshop will be part of an accompanying research on River Landscapes: A New Glossary as a transdisciplinary project. Further information will be provided after signing up and onsite.

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