In this transdisciplinary afternoon, we encounter water through the body and through storytelling. Using somatic approaches, dance, and practices of perception, we explore how currents, waves, and droplets inscribe themselves within us. The body becomes a space of resonance: we sense the rhythm of water—yielding and resisting, flowing and pausing—and allow movements to emerge that carry stories. In the second part, we turn our attention more closely to these stories: we listen, tell, and write what lies hidden for us in the Limmat. 

Between landscape exploration, dance, and collective writing, forms arise in which water is not only an element, but also energy, memory, and political force. We explore how mythical narratives and contemporary questions around water as a resource can be translated into movement, and how new spaces of resonance and capacities for action emerge through somatic listening.

The event thus opens a space of experience where perception and imagination flow into one another: water becomes not merely a theme, but a living practice that moves bodies, surroundings, and community.

Impressions and experiences from the walk will contribute to a collective glossary entry as part of the River Landscapes project.

About the River Landscapes Project

River Landscapes: A New Glossary is a transdisciplinary project exploring Swiss rivers as ecological and cultural landscapes. Through workshops, fieldwork, and collective reflection, participants co-create glossary entries that weave together artistic, scientific, and local knowledge. The glossary—published as an open-source format—includes language, images, sounds, and stories that reimagine rivers not as controllable resources, but as vibrant, more-than-human ecosystems. The project will culminate in a public presentation series on a boat along the Limmat in 2026.

The workshop “River Flows” will also be part of an accompanying research on transdisciplinary projects. Further information will be provided on-site.