Writings on water management, speculative futures, earth phenomena and everyday things. Traditional, 100% human-made wandering thoughts.
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Ice and gravel
This spring I visited Grubenpark, an old gravel quarry in southern Munich. The mine was exploited until the late seventies and its processing plant shutdown only twenty years ago. Fifty years of human inactivity in the quarry have transformed the wavy stony ground into a diverse forest, where lower areas of the pit turn into…
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Imagining constructed wetlands in future cities
Simply put, constructed wetlands are man-made basins where specific vegetation is grown. Wastewater flows into the basin, or into a chain of them, one after another. The vegetation, soil and organisms from the wetland effectively treat the water. At some point the water is collected again in the system and ready to be reused. I’m…
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Water reuse and energy consumption
As I write this post I’m participating in a series of workshops at the European Policy Lab focused on water reuse. They are part of this bigger project. We’re looking 15 years ahead and building speculative future scenarios for water reuse and policy. Whenever water reuse is discussed, there is a challenge that calls my…