Water is essential to all known life. This vital, cleansing element enables all biological processes, shapes our climate, and sustains ecosystems.

We've selected five books that examine water and the critical challenges it faces from perspectives in art and design:

→ Water Works: Eco-Social Design, edited by Henriëtte Waal & Clemens Driessen

→ Amalgama, edited by Chiara Famengo

→ Something In the Water, edited by Oscar Tuazon

→ Water Wareness by Panta Rhei Collaborative

→ Art + Water, edited by Joke Brouwer, Arie Altena & Boris Debackere

Plus Objects & Sounds selected albums shaped by the movements and pressures of water, listening to how it pools, breaks, drifts, and gathers across shifting forms and textures.