Walking with Water in Common

What does it mean to notice a stream that is sometimes visible, sometimes hidden, yet shapes where and how we live?

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​This walking workshop invites you to get to know Hobson’s Brook from a new perspective, both its visible presence and hidden absence in Cambridge. Together, we will engage creatively with the river, discover ways that water connects us, and explore how we might care for water collectively.

​Along the route we uncover and engage with historic and contemporary hydro-realities, and investigate practical, solution-oriented approaches to living with and as bodies of water.

​Thinking with community-led design and research practices we ask: How can collective making on-the-move be a methodology for knowing, caring, relating and prefiguring worlds with/as more-than-human agencies and communities?

​We start our walk at the north entrance of Nine Wells Woods—home to the chalk springs of both Hobson’s Brook and Vicar’s Brook—and end at the fountain in Market Square in Cambridge city centre. The walk will take approximately five hours including stops for discussions, creative activities, and lunch at Empty Common Community Garden (roughly halfway).

​The workshop is co-led by Gustav Nielsen and Violeta Tsenova of the Community Design Research Lab (CDRL), and Clara Todd of Water Sensitive Cambridge (WSC), with support from the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge.