FLUID INTERDISCIPLINARITIES
Connecting Waters, Bridging Perspectives
October 23–25, 2025
Berlin, Humboldt University
About the festival
Set in the historically layered spaces of Humboldt- Universität's Campus North, Fluid Interdisciplinarities is a 3-day festival which features collaborative academic sessions, walkshops, artistic installations, and embodied experiments in thinking and moving with water.
Through interdisciplinary dialogues and participatory activities—including film screenings, exhibitions, and discussions—the festival fosters knowledge exchange between science, art, and society.
By dissolving traditional boundaries between disciplines and knowledge systems, Fluid Interdisciplinarities invites all participants to consider: How do we engage with water — and how it, in turn, shapes us.
The event is organized by the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys) in cooperation with the artist-led initiative One Body of Water, as well as the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, the University of Montpellier, the Knowledge Exchange with Society team and the TA T – Tieranatomisches Theater at the Centre for Cultural Techniques (ZfK).
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Fluid Interdisciplinarities is co-curated and coordinated by Pauline Münch (ZfK / IRI THESys), Regina Hügli (One Body of Water), Tobias Krüger (IRI THESys), Rossella Alba (IRI THESys), Matthias Zarama Giedion (IRI THESys), and Emanuele Fantini (IHE Delft), with further contributions from collaborators at IHE Delft, the University of Montpellier, and beyond.
Because rivers move beyond disciplinary boundaries, and we’re invited to do the same... This festival invites researchers, artists, activists, and the public to think with water: through movement, dialogue, film, sound, writing, and walking.
While the first two days are focused on collaborative sessions among invited participants, Saturday is our public day: when we open the doors and let the flow spill outward.
Whether you're involved in nature protection, environmental justice, social inquiry, creative practice, or just curious, you're warmly invited to join us.
You’ll encounter formats that make space for exchange without forcing consensus: from walkshops to sponge cake tastings, from film screenings to river conversations.
Come to connect your work with others, to be unsettled, to let things settle.
Organisers
IRI THESys
University of Montpellier
IHE Delft
One Body of Water
Zentrum für Kulturtechnik
