LIMINALWATER WEBINARS

This presentation shares work from ‘Currents of Change: Lived Histories of Liverpool’s Waterfront’, a participatory photography project exploring how water shapes everyday life in Liverpool, from the perspective of twelve residents whose connections to the city's docks, river and sea span migration, labour, memory, environment and belonging.

Working with participants, the project used six facilitated sessions to move to co-curated selections for an exhibition at the Museum of Liverpool and the international Liminal Waterway Countercultures exhibition in Rijeka. Participants photographed places, objects and traces, telling stories through what is seen, what is overlooked and what is felt in a maritime city undergoing ecological and social change.

The presentation explores two interlinked questions. First, how participatory works as a method with the participant group is diverse in background and experience. Second, what the photographs and conversations reveal about the multiple, sometimes contradictory ways Liverpudlians relate to water: as commodity, as peril, as route, as sanctuary, and as home.

The talk includes participant photographs shown with permission.

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This webinar series presents work in progress from the transnational Liminal Waterway Countercultures research project. The project explores creative alternative ways of life that have emerged in edge spaces around Europe’s peripheral waterways, precariously weathering several interlocking crises. The webinars present our diverse sites, our range of innovative research methods, and our emergent findings. The sessions each last an hour and include 25-minute presentations with time for discussion. All welcome. The project is funded through the HERA/CHANSE Humanities in Crisis programme by the AHRC, ANR, FCT, FWF and HRZZ.