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What is your favorite waterbody? What do you like about it? Chances are that you thought of a lake or a river, maybe even an entire ocean. For the collaborative workshop at the CRC 1265 on ‘water, flows, space, and other stuff’, Moritz Kasper and Afra Foli decided to use the notion of ‘waterbody’ to talk about slightly unorthodox containers of water: an urban river-turned-drain in Accra and bright yellow jerry cans in Nairobi.

This blog post is a field report of the author’s trip with the University of California Irvine’s EcoGovLab to the Salton Sea in California. Based on this field trip a few miles from Desert Hot Springs, near the San Andreas Fault, the article focuses on the non-human dimension in the figuration of spaces in the Anthropocene and the challenges posed by harmful entanglements that require alternative research approaches and close university-community relationships.

Unberührt, intakt, grenzenlos: So stellen sich Großstadtbewohner:innen rund um den Globus die Natur vor. Doch diese imaginierte Idylle kann gerade in Zeiten multipler Krisen zum Problem werden, findet Ilse Helbrecht, Teilprojektleiterin am SFB 1265. Hier erklärt sie, welche Brisanz in romantischen Naturbetrachtungen à la Caspar David Friedrich steckt und warum sich Städter:innen ausgerechnet im Grünen besonders sicher und aufgehoben fühlen.