During small group conversations, Converging Currents participants were encouraged to practice collaborative visual note-taking on the tables themselves. Participants were given a series of prompts related to topics collaboratively developed with participants before the event. Here we document those conversations as preserved in these communal notes. We hope these ideas are an inspiration and sounding board for future projects.
What environmental spaces/conversations have artists been excluded from? What art spaces/conversations have scientists been excluded from? What would integrating these spaces/conversations look like?
How can we amplify youth voices and make these kinds of spaces more inviting for youth? How can formal and informal educators better incorporate knowledge and activism about water into their teaching?
What new understandings and/or collaboration ideas have you learned from this symposium that could help address the most urgent water challenges you’re concerned about and/or working on?
How can we make information about water quality, rights, and research more accessible and inclusive? What new ways have you learned to address legacies of environmental racism and the suppression and dismissal of Indigenous knowledge in your own work?
Beyond exhibits and events like those happening this weekend, what are other ways that museums, libraries, and other cultural heritage institutions could support water activism and water justice?