There is an increasing tension between what we expect from the water system and what it can actually deliver, resulting in issues with water quality, water scarcity, and flooding.
The awareness is growing, however, that certain mental models are at the root of this, often worn in in our own ways of thinking. In the arena we hunt down the beliefs, thinking patterns, taboos, dogmas and sacred cows that are currently leading in how we are managing our water system.
We explore different angles and draw up new leading ideas as the foundation for an innovating systemic approach.
Mental models
In the arena H2050 we extract the leading principles from our water system.
Catalysts
What initiatives yield the most enthusiasm, spirit, drive in the arena? What and who are inspiring catalysts?
Causal loop
How is our water system pieced together? How are things interconnected? What are the causes and effects of drought?
Cartoons
Belgian cartoonists Lectrr en Kamagurka draw live cartoons on the journey in the water arena.
Portraits
Artist Mirjana Vrbaški shoots complex layers of the arena participants.
Poetry
On the power and uniqueness of water, on water as an inspiration, on water as source of life.
The outputs of the arena inspire, discuss and portray systems thinking in text, diagrams, poetry, photography and cartoons. Reflection comes in many shapes and sizes and other types of content can spark different views. However, each and every one of them articulates the thirst for a systemic view of water in Flanders.
Are you joining our journey? Pick your gateway:
mental models
cartoons
catalysts
portraits
causal loop
