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About us
Humans are part of nature, but often act as if we are separate from it. Leading us to abuse and extract from it, without realising that this can make us sick and cause harm. This disconnection reduces our resilience to events like flooding, it leads to species loss, bad air quality and rising temperatures.
Our current path has already taken us past seven of the nine planetary boundaries which sustain all life. We are creating an unlivable planet, at war with the future generations of all living things.
Working with citizens, communities and institutions throughout South Yorkshire. The River Dôn Project seeks to demonstrate how we can see and sense into the complex ecosystems and relationships that make up the water catchments that we are all a part of.
The catchment area is made up of thousands of interwoven and interdependent relationships called a bioregion. We are working to make them visible and understand them better. We think this could inform how communities, institutions and citizens collectively steward, value and shift the choices we make together towards liveable futures.
The River Dôn Project is bringing together a range of multi-disciplinary organisations and people into an innovative, collaborative partnership. All are welcome. We structure our work through different workflows: Communities, Arts and Culture, Legal, Research, Digital Engagement Platform and Interface for Care. Together, we are designing and developing the sensing technologies that both surface and nurture relationships and participation from citizens, organisations and communities. We do this with the aim of demonstrating a commons-based approach to the collective governance and stewardship of rivers.
This project sits in a portfolio of work that recognises the problems faced by our region, the UK and the wider world are complex and intersecting. We work collaboratively to create and support responses to achieve urgent systemic change. We do this by telling stories, bringing people together and demonstrating proofs of possibility.