100 Words for Water: A Projective Ecosocial Vocabulary assembles more than one hundred terms defined by contemporary thinkers across science, philosophy, politics, activism and architecture to build a working lexicon for the most pressing environmental crisis of our time.
About This Book
Anchored in the United Nations' position that the climate crisis is, at its core, a water crisis, this volume takes an unusual form: a collaboratively constructed vocabulary. Terms such as Water Rights, Hydrocatharsis, Decommodification of Water and Liquid Modernity are each defined by a different contributor, producing a genuinely interdisciplinary instrument rather than a conventional text. The result is neither manifesto nor handbook but something more generative — a projective ecosocial framework for rethinking how architecture, policy and collective life might be reorganised around water equity. Illustrated with cartographic case studies, it maps both the crisis and the possibilities for a multispecies future.
Key Features
- 316 pages of contributed definitions, cartographic case studies and interdisciplinary essays
- Edited by Eva Franch i Gilabert, Mireia Luzárraga, and Alejandro Muiño; contributions by Stacy Alaimo, Markus Bader, Chan Carson, Beatriz Colomina, Cooking Sections, José Luis de Vicente, Elvira Dyangani Ose and many others
- Published by Lars Müller Publishers, ISBN 9783037787915
What You'll Discover
- How over one hundred distinct terms form a shared vocabulary for ecosocial transformation, each defined by a different contemporary thinker
- The intersections between water management, architectural practice, and political frameworks such as decommodification and water rights
- Cartographic case studies that visualise human-water interdependence at territorial and urban scales
- How philosophical and activist perspectives — from liquid modernity to hydrocatharsis — reframe water as a design and governance challenge
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 316
- Dimensions: 17 × 24 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783037787915
- Publisher: Lars Müller Publishers
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects, urban designers, policymakers, environmental activists and researchers working at the intersection of climate, water equity and ecosocial design