Dr Cat Button

ALT Circles of card in the round barrel of an ornamental wishing well. They have wishes written on them. One says “I wish for water being accessible to everybody”. Another says “I wish for water to survive”. Someone has written “I wish for more beaches”. The final visible one reads “I wish for water companies to be nationalised na brought under public ownership”

ALT Ways we know and show water Water is so much more than H2O. How it is represented tells us about the ways in which water is valued by different people in different places. This changes how people and communities deal with having too little (clean) water or too much water in the wrong place and is demonstrated in how water is mapped. Understanding these relationships with water also helps to create appropriate and equitable solutions to water problems such as pollution, droughts, and floods. We are looking for papers that consider how water is represented and that address topics such as: Water in visual art & music Water in stories, myths & legends Water in Folklore & place-based memory Religious and spiritual depictions of water Community and/or participatory mapping of floods & other water risks Social cartography looking at water bodies Water in popular media Email title, abstract (max 200 words), keywords & author names to [email protected] by 21st Feb.

ALT Two large heart-shaped blue earrings placed on a wooden table. One says ‘Urban’ and the other says ‘Planning’

ALT Award being presented to Mark Shucksmith in front of a large Victorian stained glass window in the Common Room (formerly the Mining Institute) in Newcastle. There is a screen in the front that says A Well-being Framework for the North of Tyne Mark Shucksmith

ALT Photo of Hiyoshi Dam taken from below. It is a large sloping concrete structure with 5 towers

ALT A concrete tunnel inside the Hiyoshi Dam. Three people are walking away from the camera

ALT A bright red platform with a ladder leading up to it gives access to a large teal blue piston that can open floodgates in Hiyoshi Dam when needed. Image is taken inside the concrete structure of the dam

ALT Photo of two digital screens in the dam museum. The top screen shows two cartoon characters who are explaining the construction of the dam. The lower screen shows images from flooding disaster before construction

ALT Selfie of a white woman with short blonde hair and bright pink lipstick. She stands in front of a building on Kyoto University campus in Japan. The building is of brick with white stone details and high arched windows. It has a clock tower on the roof. The sun is shining.

ALT A white sign reads “Yara La Diosa de las Aguas” and next to it is a fibreglass sculpture of a cat painted green and yellow. In the background you can glimpse the Cali river through the trees

ALT A simple and colourful map of the Cali river shows a range of interventions, including cat sculpture park. Main text reads “Cali un sueño atravesado pie un Rio”. There’s a QR code for more information

ALT Large bronze sculpture of a smiling cat sitting on a plinth. It’s tail is like a squirrel’s tail and has a green bird sculpture sat on it. The cat’s whiskers are curled like a moustache. The sculpture is called El Gato del Rio

ALT On a rooftop terrace Professor Maggie Roe stands in the middle of a circle of people giving instructions for a warm up activity

ALT People walking around and talking to each other on a rooftop terrace in Colombia

ALT Little paper flag stuck in a muffin. The flag reads “Water Security Hub. Welcome to Colombia”. There is a picture of a bus. The muffin is a light carrot cake and sits on a white paper napkin on a white porcelain plate. It was delicious

ALT Bottle of green liquid. The glass bottle has words etched on it that read: 100% Northumbrian Water

ALT A black sign that says “welcome to the UNSDG Research Leaders Summit. The Magpie Club. Wednesday 21st September 2022. We are United” At the top of the sign is the Newcastle United logo. There is a reflection of a person taking the picture in the shiny surface and she is standing in a long corridor with lots of doors

ALT Photograph looking down over raked seating at St James’s Park football ground. The pitch is partially in sunshine. There are white machines on the pitch and some people are moving the bright green grass

ALT A group of 12 people sit round a meeting table in the centre of a shared office. On the table are cups of tea and plates of snacks including samosas, pakoras and dokla

ALT A plastic plate with a stuffed parantha (round flat bread) cut into quarters, metal bowls of yoghurt and chutney are on another plastic plate to accompany the parantha. There is a cup of chai in a green paper cup. These are all placed on a mock-marble table in front of a window with a view over green forested hills and blue sky

ALT Poster for a talk. There is an aerial photo of a river and an inset portrait picture of the speaker who is a white women with short pink hair and large earrings. Main text reads: Department of Architecture and Planning IIT Roorkee invites you to an interactive research talk “The gates of WATER in Urban Planning” 26.07.22 Tuesday. 11am. Room 102 Department of Architecture & Planning. Dr Cat Button Director of Planning and Urban Design. School of Architecture Planning and Landscape. Newcastle University UK

ALT Selfie of eight people in an office. They are all leaning in to be in the frame and smiling

ALT Four smiling people stand on the grass in front of a sign that reads Indian Institute of Technology Delhi written in both Hindi and English

ALT The city name ROORKEE is spelled out in topiary. Clipped green box hedge with red leaf hedge border

ALT Sign reads “Tokyo Waterworks Historical Museum” above automatic sliding doors leading in to the museum