Name: River Cities Network in Stockholm
Start: 2025-10-14T13:00:00+02:00
Location: Vrak – Museum of Wrecks

The River Cities Network invites you to an inspiring afternoon filled with creative workshops, thought-provoking presentations, and artistic encounters in Stockholm.
Hosted by Intercult at the Vrak Museum of Wrecks, the event brings together artists, scientists, urban planners, cultural organisations, thinkers, and practitioners to explore rivers, water, and urban futures through dialogue, imagination, and collaboration.
Programme
13.00 – 13.10
Welcome - Iwona Preis (CEO of Intercult, Former president & Co-founder of River Cities Network)
13.10 – 14.40
Germaine Sanders – Workshop
“floating value & future flow drawing as a way of thinking”
Why drawing? How to draw loose thoughts? What makes a strong idea? What and how to communicate?
This practical workshop will focus on engaging and stimulating visual thinking and enhancing creative collaboration. Through a series of simple drawing exercises and expert facilitation, attendees from different backgrounds will develop clear overview of thoughts. Showing, arranging and sharing this visual thinking build effective insight skills, stronger ideas, and form valuable connections.
Drawing as a way of thinking is a PyB nomadAcademy® method for professionals, students, and anyone interested in clarity in complexity and imagination, this workshop will span one and a half hours. Please, experience fresh perspectives, structure loose thoughts to build a shared red line together, and leave feeling motivated to communicate and to move on.
14.40 – 14.55
Break
14.55 – 15.45
Robert Alagjozovski – Workshop
“Counter-strike river apocalypse”
In this interactive educational workshop the participants would develop alternative scenarios as a creative response to identified disastrous riverfront developments in Europe. Starting with a short presentation of different case studies of riverfronts gone bad,
through the methodology of playroles and gamification the workshop would explore the different positions, procedures, decision-makings, civic engagement and how they could influence the processes developing in desired eco-friendly and climate-responsible directions.
15.45 – 16.00
Break
16.00 – 16.45
River Cities Presentation
“The mission, membership and future visions”
The River Cities Network brings together cultural institutions, artists, researchers, and civic actors from across Europe to reimagine rivers as spaces of connection, heritage, and sustainable development. This presentation will introduce the network’s mission, showcase its diverse membership, and open a dialogue on shared ambitions for the future. Participants will hear about ongoing collaborations, opportunities for exchange, and emerging visions for how rivers can inspire new models of urban life, creativity, and ecological awareness.
16.45 – 17.15
Jenny Marketou, Artist & Bernd Herger, Chairman of River // Cities
Presentation of the River Cities supported Project “In the Belly of a Garden”
A site specific art work conceived as a sculptural environment which brings soil and water together and pays homage to the waterbody and the wetlands of the Danube River, the River of Vienna. It is anchored above the man-made lake in Aspern, Seestadt and is in dialogue with the park-like landscape of the sleek artificial architecture of Seestadt, Europe’s largest urban development project in Vienna’s 22nd district (Donaustadt) built on an old airfield. The artwork was created as part of the project Turning The Tide in collaboration with River Cities.
17.15 – 17.45
Eva Stache – Presentation
“Water, the unknown friend”
Water is omnipresent, though we usually only see it when it's a nuisance. When it rains down on our necks, when it overflows, or when it's absent altogether. We'll embark on a journey to places where water is visible or invisible, and together we'll discover our unknown relationship with water.
17.45 – 18.00
Final reflections - Iwona Preis & Elisavet Papageorgiou, Intercult, Stockholm

The program is still a subject for changes
PLEASE NOTE: The event will be held in English

Registration
Please register via this link https://forms.gle/VMKXDhVsK1gyjFMv9
Participation is free of charge, but spaces are limited.