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Participation in the international ecological thought forum "Nature's (Un)peace"

On the left side of the image is a presentation screen with the title "Many Waters: Technological Diversity and the Reorientation of Human-Water Relations." To the right of it, on a raised platform by the microphone, is project researcher Anita Zariņa.
On the left side of the image is a presentation screen with the title "Many Waters: Technological Diversity and the Reorientation of Human-Water Relations." To the right of it, on a raised platform by the microphone, is project researcher Anita Zariņa.
The picture shows project researcher Anita Zariņa at the microphone.

Project researcher Anita Zariņa lecture "Many Waters: Technological Diversity and the Reorientation of Human-Water Relations", which took place as part of the Nature (Un)Peace forum in Liepāja on 12 July, was a call to reevaluate the relationship between humans and water in the Anthropocene – an era marked by ecological crisis, the legacy of modernity, and technological universalism.

The lecture offered an insight into how we can reorient human relations with water based on the concept of technodiversity. Inspired by the approach developed by Yuk Hui, it critically examines the dominant, uniform Western techno-rationality that determines water management principles around the world – through engineering systems, global indicators, and digitization. In contrast, technodiversity offers a way of thinking with and through different worldviews – cosmotechnics, where water is not just a resource, but a carrier of life, relationships and culture. This reorientation means abandoning the "one water" approach and invites us to think about many waters – about diverse forms of relationships rooted in respect, locality, and co-creation.

The lecture also discussed the research of the Water Culture project, which analyzes hydrosocial relationships, diversity of knowledge, and the place of water in the collective imagination.

Latvian public media also published a review of the Liepaja2027 environmental forum “Nature (Un)Peace”.

Images: Liepāja 2027 publicity photos.

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