![The image of 龍母 [Dragon Mother] is inspired by the background map “showing the areas, in dark blue, that are vulnerable to flooding due to a major storm (1:500 year storm) today, and areas in light blue that are vulnerable to flooding due to a major storm and 1 metre of sea level rise by 2100 without flood management measures in place” (quoted from Vancouver’s Changing Shoreline, City of Vancouver, 2018.)](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56364c27e4b078ea327c26e9/1622936439616-UQXALVJSH0YUTCGO7N2H/image-asset.jpeg)
The image of 龍母 [Dragon Mother] is inspired by the background map “showing the areas, in dark blue, that are vulnerable to flooding due to a major storm (1:500 year storm) today, and areas in light blue that are vulnerable to flooding due to a major storm and 1 metre of sea level rise by 2100 without flood management measures in place” (quoted from Vancouver’s Changing Shoreline, City of Vancouver, 2018.)
How Water Remembers 水記得
"Up the stretch of False Creek, the man and monster drove their course, where a century hence great city bridges were to over-arch the waters"
— E. Pauline Johnson, 1861-1913
“You know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for houses and livable acreage. Occasionally the river floods these places. ‘Floods’ is the word they use, but in fact it is not flooding; it is remembering. Remembering where it used to be”
—Toni Morrison, 1931-2019
Links to Project Articles
° About How Water Remembers 2021-ongoing
° Phase 1 “Rivers Have Mouths” Exhibition 2021
° Phase 2 “How Water Remembers 水記得” in Chinatown 2022
° The Story of Dragon Mother & Sínulhḵay̓
° About Mudflat Inhabitants
° Ideogram Translations
° List of 20 Participating Chinatown Shops 2022
° Download HWR Divination Game
° Acknowledgements
° On CoV’s Sea2City
Through these activities, How Water Remembers aims to build awareness and cultural value in developing sustainable ecologies for humans and biodiversity. By increasing ecological biodiversity, scientists believe we can slow down global warming and also increase protections against future pandemics. How Water Remembers will also encourage a vision of a more livable city with sensitive landscape architecture that enhances biodiversity, while respecting our interconnected livelihood with the many diverse critters whose habitats may be currently endangered. 通過這些活動，水記得 旨在培養公衆的生態意識及生態文化價值觀，以利於發展可持續的人文生態系統，保護生物多樣性。科學家認爲，生態系統的多樣性，有助於減緩全球氣候變暖，也有利於防禦未來可能大範圍爆發的傳染病。水記得也鼓勵公衆著眼建設一座更宜居的城市，規劃更多景觀敏感度高的建築，以豐富生物多樣性。當下，許多生物栖息地或正處於瀕危狀態。水記得希望大家認識到萬物生靈的息息相關，脈脈相連。
