ENTANGLED-WITH-WATER

Perhaps it is not surprising that we are entangled with water. It seems as though we are so entangled that we forgot what came first - the water, or the infrastructure that designed our entanglement. The idea of infrastructure as a thing is common - we have been designing pipes, toilets, septic tanks, water tanks and basins for decades. But infrastructure is simultaneously a relation between people and territory, people and nature, power and access, houses and bodies. Like the shapes of water - steam, ocean, mist, foam, holding fish, containing plastics, carrying sharks, cold, hot, oily, solid, ice, in the soil, in the air, in the bucket, swamp, river, tea, mineral, urine, rain, aquifer - we need to learn how to transform our design approaches to infrastructure.