Towards an International of Rivers and Other Natural Entities was conceived as both a research space and a narrative in circulation—one that can be taken up, transformed, and extended. As such, the project is not confined to the work carried out within its original framework. Instead, it unfolds through a diversity of forms created by those who choose to engage with it.
These acts of reinterpretation and transformation lie at the heart of what the project calls its pollinators. Borrowing from the dynamics of the living world, the term refers to artists, filmmakers, writers, photographers, and other practitioners who help circulate the project's ideas by translating them into different languages, media, and contexts.
Their role is not to illustrate an existing body of work, but to produce new interpretations. Each contribution offers a distinct way of engaging with the questions raised by the project: How can rivers and natural environments be represented? How might the legal and political frameworks that shape their futures evolve? And, more broadly, how can we renew the ways we imagine, narrate, and relate to the living world?
Several forms of pollination have already accompanied the project. Its ideas have been received and reinterpreted through documentary filmmaking by Camille de Chenay, photography by Anne-Marie Filaire, and graphic storytelling by Laurent Bonneau. Each of these works shifts the project's perspective, explores particular aspects of its inquiry, and opens up new ways of reading and understanding it.
This process remains ongoing. The project is conceived as an open space for further appropriation, operating according to a logic akin to open source. It welcomes extensions, reinterpretations, and translations, in keeping with the vision of a public service for the imagination championed by Camille de Toledo.
The news and updates gathered here highlight these different forms of circulation. Together, they show how the project continues to evolve beyond its original framework through the practices, stories, and perspectives of those who carry it forward.
