Nidhi Srinivas gave a presentation on Water harvesting in Rajasthan as part of the Water (Dis)courses event at the Graduate Program in International Affairs.
Faculty members from across The New School presented on a variety of topics, focusing on the different forms of representation of water and water-related issues. Each presentation was in a modified PechaKucha style, meaning each faculty member had a maximum of 5 minutes to make their points before the next presenter’s slides started. It was a new format for most of the faculty, and they did an amazing job. The range of topics presented, and the names of faculty presenters, are detailed below:
– Victoria Vesna “New School Waterbodies”
– Brian McGrath “Shifting from the sanitary to the sustainable city: the Viele map of Manhattan”
– Victoria Marshall “Ritual + Weather: A rooftop garden at The New School”
– Philip Silva “Mob Geographies: Crashing the Gateway of New York/New Jersey waterfronts”
– Mara Haseltine “Science, art and environmentalism: Oysters”
– Jean Gardner “You + Water: pedagogy and environmental/sustainability crises”
– Rob Buchanan “‘Sponge park’ for storm water mitigation at the Brooklyn Navy Yard”
– Paul Ryan “Water”, a short film
– Haodong Wu “Reflections in the Water”, a musical performance from Images, Book I by Claude Debussy
– Jackie Brookner “Biosculptures/The Art of Water Remediation”
– Lisa Bjorkman “Seven Methods of Water Access in Mumbai”
– Nidhi Srinivas “Water harvesting in Rajasthan”
– Antina von Schnitzler “Soweto Water Wars”
– Tom O’Donnell “Venezuela most polluted lake, Lake Maracaibo: Oil Under Water”
– Katayoun Chamany “Health and the environment: Cholera”

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– Water harvesting in Rajasthan PPT