A live online discussion with Benedetta Tagliabue, Jampel Dell’Angelo and host Alejandro Chaoul
How can what we don’t see still shape our lives, both in the world around us and in our own minds?
Huge amounts of water are needed to create everyday things like buildings, roads, clothing, and food. In this dialogue, architect Benedetta Tagliabue and environmental scientist Jampel Dell’Angelo use this “hidden water” as a doorway into exploring our inner life: the unconscious habits, emotions, and assumptions that influence what we build, buy, and value. Bringing together scientific insight and meditative awareness, the speakers explore how making these unseen forces more visible can open the door to clearer perception, more conscious choices, and a deeper sense of interdependence.
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About the Presenters
Benedetta Tagliabue is an internationally renowned architect and director of the Miralles Tagliabue EMBT studio, which she co‑founded in 1994 with Enric Miralles and now leads from its offices in Barcelona, Shanghai, and Paris. Her work spans architecture, public space design, rehabilitation, interiors, and industrial design, and is known for its poetic quality and strong attention to context. She has received numerous international awards, including the RIBA Jencks Award and the Creu de Sant Jordi, and serves on prestigious juries such as the Pritzker Prize and the Princess of Asturias Awards. Tagliabue has been a visiting professor at institutions including Harvard University, Columbia University, and ETSAB Barcelona, and is also director of the Enric Miralles Foundation.
Jampel Dell’Angelo is an associate professor of water governance and politics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where he focuses on the socio‑environmental dimensions of water, including resource use, power, and justice. He is Principal Investigator of NEWAVE, a European Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska‑Curie Innovative Training Network on next‑generation water governance, and since 2021 has served as editor‑in‑chief of the journal World Development. Dell’Angelo has held positions at leading socio‑environmental research centers in the United States and is also a Visiting Scholar in the Ecohydrology Lab at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as an Environmental Governance Affiliate Scholar at the National Socio‑Environmental Synthesis Center in Maryland.
Alejandro Chaoul, Ph.D. (host) serves as director of research for Ligmincha International. He has studied in the Tibetan traditions since 1989, including since 1991 in the Bön Tradition. He holds a Ph.D. in Tibetan religions from Rice University and is scholar and founding director of the Mind Body Spirit Institute at the Jung Center of Houston. For the last more than 25 years he has been teaching and researching the benefits of Tibetan mind-body practices for people touched by cancer. He is a Contemplative Fellow at the Mind & Life Institute, and is the author of Chöd Practice in the Bön Tradition (Snow Lion, 2009), Tibetan Yoga for Health & Well-Being (Hay House, 2018), and Tibetan Yoga: Magical Movements of Body, Breath, and Mind (Wisdom Publications, 2021).