A plea for climate art (TU Delft x Rijksmuseum)

A smart alternative to the traditional sandbag and an experiment with clay to learn more about strengthening dikes. These are two examples of TU Delft research that is currently being exhibited as art at the Rijksmuseum. The photos are part of the exhibition called DUURZAAM / SUSTAIN / TENE by the artist Sharelly Emanuelson, and follow from visits to TU Delft in which she sought answers to the question: How are people involved in sustainability in their daily lives? Water innovation expert Lindsey Schwidder: ‘There are so many similarities between art and science. Museums, for example, do not only illustrate the links between past, present and future well, they also promote and ignite imagination. For scientists, imagination – the stimulation of the creative and the associative – is often the fuel that drives them to new insights or to making connections.’