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.
Why join?
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.
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
Party of the Panke
The river takes the mic.
Artistic stations, legal fictions, multispecies politics:
all staged beside the Panke in a living dialogue with the water.
River Film Fest
Rivers on screen, rights in motion.
Shorts and features on water justice, storytelling, and
the pulse of rivers worldwide. Open to all.
Sediment Sessions
Slow the flow.
A space to pause, process, and let ideas settle:
with a sediment pad in hand and time to reflect between the currents.
World Café
Intimate circles. Expanding ideas.
In fast flashes and deep dialogues, small groups gather to exchange across disciplines:
one question, one table, one ripple at a time.
LOCATION
Tieranatomisches Theater
Anatomy once echoed here. Now, fluid dialogues unfold under its dome. Here, walls remember and ideas begin
to flow.
Gerlachbau
The airy annex of the TA T. Here sessions breathe, ideas settle, and conversations quietly take root.
The Panke & Campus Paths
Outside, Berlin’s hidden river carries us. Along its banks, we walk, listen, and follow the currents.
How to Get There
Address: Campus Nord, Philippstraße 13/Haus 3, 10115 Berlin (Veterinary Anatomy Theater)
Public Transport
🚇 U6 – Oranienburger Tor (8 min walk)
🚍Bus 142 (Philippstrasse) / Bus 147 (Charité - Campus Mitte)
🚉 S-Bahn – Hauptbahnhof (Berlin Central Station) (15 min walk)
🚋 Tram M5, M8, M10 – Invalidenpark (11 min walk)
💡 We recommend using the BVG app or Google Maps for live directions.
Photo credits (in order of apearance)
Lightdrawing by the River Limyros, Regina Hügli
Holzmarkt, Klemens Czurda
IRI THESys
One Body of Water
IHE Delft
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
Zentrum für Kulturtechnik
University of Montpellier