Power(s) of Water Day

A renowned illustrator of children’s books, Elisa Géhin works in full color, playing with shapes, gravity and ordinary objects. In addition to her many published books, she has extensive experience in hosting workshops on themes ranging from the environment to architecture. Silk-screen printing, collages, paintings and stamp engravings are just some of the mediums she uses to pass on her art to youngsters.

Writer, director, architect and artist Mathieu Pradat creates immersive experiences that make us think about our relationship with space. Resident at MIT in 2021, winner of the Taiwan XR residency and the Villa Albertine in 2022, his virtual reality experiences and films have been selected and awarded at numerous festivals, including Venice Virtual - La Mostra de Venise, the Geneva International Film Festival, the Frankfurt Biennale, and the Rotunda of the Locarno Film Festival. Mathieu Pradat is also the founder and director of La Prairie Productions.

Marie-Pierre Bonniol (1978, Marseille) graduated in Visual Arts, Aesthetics and Sciences of Arts from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She lives in Berlin and works internationally. Learn More.

Sabrine Shankman covers the climate crisis for the Boston Globe. She joined the newspaper in 2021 after reporting for eight years at Inside Climate News, where she covered the arctic. Prior to that, she helped produce shows for PBS/Frontline and reported for ProPublica. She has reported on polar bear attacks from a helicopter, stayed in man-camps on Alaska’s North Slope and tracked the path of a terrorist through India and Denmark. At the Globe, her work helps readers understand climate change-fueled extreme weather events, the emerging science and policy of climate change, and the work being done at the state and regional level to address the crisis. Her work has won national recognition, including from the Society of Professional Journalists, the National Headliner Awards, and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. She got her start as a crime reporter at the Taunton Daily Gazette, and has a masters in journalism from U.C. Berkeley.

Caroline Ummenhofer received a Joint Honours B.Sc. in Marine Biology and Physical Oceanography from Bangor University, UK, and a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of New South Wales, Australia, specializing in climate modeling. In 2012, she took up a faculty position in the Physical Oceanography Department at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA. She won several awards, including the Eureka Prize for Water Research and Innovation by the Australian Museum, and the James B. Macelwane Medal by the American Geophysical Union. Her research focuses on the ocean’s role for the water cycle, extreme events, such as droughts and floods, and their impact on human and natural systems, including marine heatwaves. Her applied research bridges the gap between ocean and climate dynamics and its impacts on end users. As such, she aims to provide practical outcomes of use to stakeholders and the broader public. She has participated in art-science collaborations and museum exhibits to showcase scientific findings on topics about climate change in the Indian Ocean region, marine heatwaves, and the oceanic water cycle.

As a project Manager III for Veolia in Brockton, Massachusetts, David believes that waste water treatment is vital to public health and the protection of our waterways. He accomplishes this goal through the management of a 20.5 MGD Wastewater Plant serving the city of Brockton Massachusetts with a population of 100, 000 residents. Mr. Salvador holds several licenses including: Massachusetts Wastewater Grade VII Rhode Island Wastewater Grade IV, Associated Board of Certification Wastewater Grade IV, NEWEA Grade II Lab Certification,NEWEA Collections Grade IV, Massachusetts Drinking Water Distribution Grade IV and Massachusetts Drinking Water Treatment Grade I.

Distinguished professor of Engineering and a professor of water diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Boston, USA, he is the founding Director of the Water Diplomacy Program. Dr. Islam’s expertise spans engineering diplomacy, water and climate challenges, negotiation and consensus building, and sustainable development. His principled pragmatic approach emphasizes developing actionable knowledge through a synthesis of theory and practice. He aims to designsolutions that are scientifically feasible, socially acceptable, ethically sound, and politically viable.

• Meditations on the Tide, Sue Murad and Sam Fields (United-States, 2012, 11′)
• UNDREAM, Sabrina Ratté (Canada, 2018, 7’)
• Schweigend ins gespräch Vertieft, Ute Aurand (Germany, 1980, 7’20)
• Medusa and The Abyss, Felicity Palma (Italy, 2016, 11’)
• Errata, Lana Z Caplan (United-States/Italy, 2017, 20’30)
• Wasser, Marie-Pierre Bonniol (Germany/France, 2021, 22’35)
• Eco, eco (Echo, echo), Laura Rius Aran (Spain, 2023, 4’)

• Rain scream laugh clap, Linnéa Haviland (United-Kingdom, 2020, 2’)
• Bedtime stories: Bridges, Harun Farocki (Germany, 1977, 3’) 
• Les Baigneurs, Albert Merino (France, 2010, 3’50) 
• Au bord du lac, Patrick Bokanowski (France, 1994, 6’)
• Terrestrial, Faith Johnson (United States, 2022, 5’) 
• Dérive, Giulia Grossman (France, 2023, 3’30) 
• Fishfile, Dorothée Billard (Germany, 2023, 5’22) 
• O sohno do sol, Florence Cha Cayron (Belgium, 2017, 4’57)