What's our water future?
- Date
- 17 November 2026
- Time
- 14:00
- Location
- Aula - Oude Lutherse kerk
This afternoon is centered around the work of scientists studying water today: the questions that drive their research, the challenges they face, and the possibilities they see for the future. Contributors will share their concerns, ideas, and ambitions to build new partnerships around water.
Water is a global common good, and its future is a shared responsibility. This afternoon is an invitation to put water higher on the agenda: for the city, for the Netherlands, for Europe, and for the world. It is an opportunity to bring different perspectives into the same room, ask difficult questions, and begin conversations that can lead to new research and new partnerships.
Speakers and performers will engage in short academic talks, music, visual storytelling, and conversation about the ways we understand, use, govern, and live with water. The contributions will be woven together with visuals and live musical interventions by composer and cellist Saartje van Camp and moderator Tracy Metz.
SPUI25 is the academic-cultural podium of Amsterdam. Since 2007, we have been giving scientists, authors, artists and other thinkers the opportunity to shine a light on issues that occupy, inspire or concern them. In cooperation with a large number of academic and cultural partners, we organize between 250 and 300 freely accessible programs per year. These are enriching, often interdisciplinary programs that move between science and culture, fact and fiction.
SPUI25 is one of the UvA-podia in the University Quarter.
