Mar 14, 2025 | Eden in Iraq, News, Outreach and Exhibitions
The Eden in Iraq Wastewater Garden project will be featured in the upcoming exhibition Thirst: In Search of Freshwater at the Wellcome Collection in London, UK, opening June 26, 2025 and on view until February 1, 2026. This exhibition will include a display on the...
Nov 28, 2024 | Eden in Iraq, News, Outreach and Exhibitions
We are pleased to announce that the exhibition Water Pressure: Designing for the Future, in which the Eden in Iraq Wastewater Garden Project is featured, opens today at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich in Switzerland. We are delighted to share insights into our...
Oct 25, 2024 | Eden in Iraq, News, Outreach and Exhibitions
A new article is out today profiling project director Meridel Rubenstein’s photographic and interdisciplinary work surrounding the Eden in Iraq Wastewater Garden Project. The Artist’s Eye on Eden presents photoworks from the project along with artist Meridel...
Oct 16, 2024 | Eden in Iraq, News, Outreach and Exhibitions
The Eden in Iraq Wastewater Garden Project team presented a webinar exploring the project to the British Institute for the Study of Iraq (BISI) on October 16, 2024. This talk covered in depth the work behind this humanitarian water remediation initiative aimed at...
Jul 31, 2024 | Eden in Iraq, News, Project Updates
Over a year ago, in May 2023, the first third of the wastewater garden was completed with much fanfare and an official opening with Minister Aun of the Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources. Though this is just the first stage in the wastewater treatment, just by the...
Jun 29, 2024 | Eden in Iraq, News, Outreach and Exhibitions
A year ago, our Project Director Meridel Rubenstein received the Anonymous Was a Woman (AWAW) Environmental Grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts to bring the Goddess Inanna back to the Mesopotamian Marshes. Inanna, later called Ishtar, is one of the...
