Reflections of the Past. Re-establishing a sturgeon population in the Danube by finding a common baseline
With Christina Gruber
Seeds of Knowledge
With Lynn Peemoeller
(Re)Storying the Kuils River
With Nikiwe Solomon & Adrian Van Wyk

Foodsystems and waterways are essential for sustaining life in every ecosystem. Yet despite this critical importance, they are often under threat due to industrial pollutants and misguided water management systems. In three case studies highlighted during The Shape of a Practice, presenters approached the problems of the changing relationships and knowledge practices that riddle these systems, bringing on many of the issues we see today.

In this archived stream, food system planner Lynn Peemoeller continues a discussion about reclaiming inter tribal knowledge exchange in the midwestern US to reorient notions of belonging within foodways, ecosystems, and knowledge traditions. Reflecting on the relationships between rivers and people on the Danube and Mississippi rivers, artist Christina Gruber investigates the lives of sturgeons who have been pushed to the edge of extinction. Anthropologist Nikiwe Solomon depicts a deep history and future of the Kuils river near Cape Town as increasingly higher loads of chemical pollutants make it a site for investigating how disciplinary thinking and modernist predispositions have prevented big picture thinking about the waterway.