Book Project: "Wassernot"

Book design (final project at ZHdK, Zurich)

‘Surprising, even beautiful things can happen when it feels as if the world is about to end.’ Eve Fairbanks describes how a multi-year drought descends on the city of Capetown from 2015 onwards. In the face of a situation that threatens their very existence, people reinvent themselves - and overcome social divides that they themselves had considered safe. The book visually recites the cultural significance of water in South African cultures and uses additional infographics (own research) to show how dramatically the climate crisis is having a concrete impact on the ground.