[STS-Africa] June 27 Community Call: “Mapping Water Care Initiatives in the Americas”

[SEEKCommons Project]

Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the SEEKCommons Project, which is funded by the U.S. 
National Science Foundation (NSF), we would like to invite you to our 
next community call:
Friday, June 27
6:00 p.m. CET / 12:00 p.m. EST / 9:00 a.m. PST
Via Zoom


In NSF SEEKCommons, we work in a distributed network of STS researchers, 
OS practitioners, and socio-environmental researchers to promote science 
and technology commons for participative socio-environmental research. 
Our call series offers an opportunity to discuss the possibilities of 
the commons as a governance framework, with speakers presenting on its 
challenges, benefits, lessons learned, and the uncharted possibilities 
for “open technologies.”

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FRI 27 JUN 2025 - 6:00 PM (CET) / 12:00 PM (EST) / 9:00 AM (PST)
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This month’s Community Call topic:
“Mapping Water Care Initiatives in the Americas” with Lisa Blackmore and 
Alejandro Ponce de León

What are the affordances of editorial projects like the Hydrocommons Map 
in promoting the emergence of a knowledge commons of practices that 
support the care and wellbeing of bodies of water? Our talk will present 
a series of open access research and mapping processes that we’ve been 
engaged in with different water care initiatives and communities in 
Latin America. We’ll explore how art and humanities research intersects 
with a rising tide of water protection movements emerging across the 
world and hemispherically, where our work is focused. Focusing on the 
work of the arts-led research platform entre—ríos, we will delve into 
values and practices that recognize our more-than-human connection 
through water and modes of cooperation that foster ecosocial wellbeing. 
Through a discussion of collaborative editorial and curatorial projects 
developed over recent years, this session opens a space to think 
together about how art-science-community collaborations, mapping 
processes based on fieldwork and remote work, and art and storytelling 
can support emergent and resilient practices that care for common 
waters.

The series is open to public participation, and registration is 
required: https://bit.ly/4dm9tMs
Complete details can be found in our June 27 Community Call Flyer: 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OeIOSnrIvyqcPmFNA0RY5nbIWaXyVp-E/view?usp=sharing


For more info about the series, visit: 
https://seekcommons.org/community-calls.html
We hope you can join us!

Warm regards,
The NSF SEEKCommons Project
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