Asks what we can learn from water’s cycles, its adaptability, and its capacity for connection.

Water is ubiquitous: we drink it, bathe in it, and encounter it as rain, ice, rivers, and oceans. And yet it remains contradictory, both familiar and strange. In the context of climate change, growing cities, and global inequality, it poses a distinct challenge to established practices and ways of thinking. Contributors to this volume frame water as a dynamic element that fosters new scientific perspectives and inventive forms of social negotiation. On Water: Fluid Perspectives brings science, art, and society into conversation, exploring a single element and the many ways of thinking with it. This book accompanies the exhibition On Water—WasserWissen at Humboldt Labor in Berlin while extending its questions and perspectives beyond the show. Visual materials from the exhibition are interwoven with thoughtful essays from Berlin researchers that illuminate water as a compelling subject of inquiry.