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Thirst: In Search of Freshwater
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...
Eden in Iraq project in “Water Pressure” exhibition in Zurich and Vienna
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...
New article: The Artist’s Eye on Eden
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...
British Institute for the Study of Iraq Webinar on the Eden in Iraq Wastewater Garden Project
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...
Eden in Iraq Project Updates Summer 2024
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...
Inanna Returns to the Mesopotamian Marshes
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...
Eden in Iraq Wastewater Garden Project featured in new documentary “Our Blue World”
The new documentary Our Blue World, directed by Irish filmmaker Ruán Magan and narrated by Liam Neeson, explores humanity’s profound relationship with water. The Eden in Iraq Wastewater Garden Project is featured as an example of innovative work connecting ancient...
Eden in Iraq Wastewater Garden Project in “Water Pressure” exhibition, Hamburg, Germany
The Eden in Iraq Wastewater Garden Project is delighted to be included in the Water Pressure exhibition at the Museum für Kunst & Gewerbe (MK&G) in Hamburg, Germany, organized by Jane Withers London Studio and MK&G. This exhibit “looks at the water crisis...
Anonymous Was A Women Environmental Art Grant gives funding for Eden In Iraq art mosaics
$309,000 Awarded to 20 Projects Led by Women-Identifying Artists in the United States and U.S. Territories: Anonymous Was A Woman (AWAW) and The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) have announced the recipients of the Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants...
Project Update Spring 2023
Eden in Iraq Wastewater Garden Drawings and April 2023 view of the first phase of site constructed wetland.The Eden In Iraq Wastewater Garden Project (under the umbrella of the Institute of Ecotechnics, a 501C3 entity and Nature Iraq NGO) is pleased to announce that...
Construction of Eden in Iraq Begins
The Eden In Iraq Wastewater Garden Project [under the umbrella of the Institute of Ecotechics, a 501c3 entity and Nature Iraq NGO] is pleased to announce that construction has begun of its wastewater garden in the Mesopotamian marshes of southern Iraq. With the...
Eden in Iraq team at BlueTech Forum 2022 Vancouver, BC Canada June 2022
BlueTech Research https://www.bluetechresearch.com is our newest impact partner. They have invited us to their upcoming Blue Tech Research Global Water Forum, Vancouver CA., June 5-8, 2022 https://www.bluetechforum.com/agenda-2022/ Team Members Dr. Mark Nelson will...
Thirst: In Search of Freshwater
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...
Eden in Iraq project in “Water Pressure” exhibition in Zurich and Vienna
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...
New article: The Artist’s Eye on Eden
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...
British Institute for the Study of Iraq Webinar on the Eden in Iraq Wastewater Garden Project
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...
Eden in Iraq Project Updates Summer 2024
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...
Inanna Returns to the Mesopotamian Marshes
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...
Eden in Iraq Wastewater Garden Project featured in new documentary “Our Blue World”
The new documentary Our Blue World, directed by Irish filmmaker Ruán Magan and narrated by Liam Neeson, explores humanity’s profound relationship with water. The Eden in Iraq Wastewater Garden Project is featured as an example of innovative work connecting ancient...
Eden in Iraq Wastewater Garden Project in “Water Pressure” exhibition, Hamburg, Germany
The Eden in Iraq Wastewater Garden Project is delighted to be included in the Water Pressure exhibition at the Museum für Kunst & Gewerbe (MK&G) in Hamburg, Germany, organized by Jane Withers London Studio and MK&G. This exhibit “looks at the water crisis...
Anonymous Was A Women Environmental Art Grant gives funding for Eden In Iraq art mosaics
$309,000 Awarded to 20 Projects Led by Women-Identifying Artists in the United States and U.S. Territories: Anonymous Was A Woman (AWAW) and The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) have announced the recipients of the Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants...
Project Update Spring 2023
Eden in Iraq Wastewater Garden Drawings and April 2023 view of the first phase of site constructed wetland.The Eden In Iraq Wastewater Garden Project (under the umbrella of the Institute of Ecotechnics, a 501C3 entity and Nature Iraq NGO) is pleased to announce that...