A digital museum uses art to keep the conversation around water flowing

A digital museum invokes art and heritage to induce behavioural change around water

In 2014, Sara Ahmed attended a powerful exhibition on Islamic art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She was deeply moved to see Islam represented in association with art and beauty, as opposed to war and terror, an unfortunate but inevitable association in today’s context. But what moved her even more perhaps was the sight of several objects of beauty that centred around water – tiled water fountains, storage pots, utensils, water carriers.

Water is close to Ahmed’s heart. With a doctorate in environmental sociology from Cambridge University, the adjunct professor at Ahmedabad University and one of India’s