wrote Luca Santis, a self proclaimed photographer and Twitch streamer on Twitter on March 17th 2020, still days before Italy started to flatten its curve of COVID-19 cases. Speculative scenarios, not unlike the one presented in the 'dolphin Tweet' of Luca Santis, are at the core of many design practices that have taken on the global challenge to prevent catastrophic climate change. In order to have a chance of succeeding several issues need to be addressed; For example, the establishment of a widespread believe that the future can be changed as well a thorough, tangible understanding of the elementary matter and materials we have at our disposal today, which help to support this change.
The Water Everywhere studios will be an attempt to contribute to this cause. Four Studios, each with their own, unique yet complementary perspective on the role and meaning of water will collaborate in a joint effort to come up with new insights and potential solutions for one of the most wicked problem(s) of our time: the global sea level rise.