The 7th issue invites a layered, fluid exploration of water as both material and metaphor. We call for ideas about surface, water’s role as a witness to history, a mystery of nature, a powerful creative force, and its resistance—asking what stories water can tell and how we can respond.

Water holds the duality of presence and absence. It shapes landscapes and carves liquid memory into matter. It nourishes, floods, erodes, purifies. It binds ecosystems and communities while also dividing or hiding them. It surrounds us, flows through us, we design with it, defend against it, and depend on it, yet much of it remains unknown.

In this issue, we seek to reflect on water not just as a substance, but as a symbol, actor, and archive—something that trickles through culture, design, belief, and survival. Nevertheless, water does not only flow—it resists. We invite you to contemplate the power of "no" in relation to water: the refusals, boundaries, and absences that shape how water is accessed, controlled, and experienced.  How has water’s natural fluidity change? Is water retaliating against us? What does it mean to say no to drought, to privatization, to rising tides? Where does water stop—and who decides? From the built environment to ecological systems, from cultural taboos to infrastructural borders, we are interested in how rejection, limits, and cautionary decisions create spatial, political, and emotional contours around water.

Studio Saxe + Mats de Boer + Sphia Kluijfhout + Angelo Chiacchio + Flemming Rafn + Mariana Simas + Antonia Altimiras Gil + Norm Architects + Tristán Sartorius 4FATE + PARK + Mette Tommerup + Sofiia Kolmykova + Renessa Kumar + FGMF Studio + Hatem Tarhini + Sebastian Denes + Studio Pachón-Paredes + Cem Kayatekin + Stefaniia Korolkova + Henrik Valeur + Ketty Bertolaso + Julia Hansen + Grandeza Studio + Furii Studio + Juan Cabello Arribas + Marta Garcia Salamanca + Yara Tarhini

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Hatem Tarhini

Sebastian Denes

Sofia Kalmyklova

CREATIVE DIRECTION

Yara Tarhini + Hatem Tarhini

LOGISTICS LEAD

Hatem Tarhini+ Victoria Rossi

EDITORIAL ROOM

Yara Al Maalouf + Sofia Garcia + Stefania Korolkova + Antonia Altimiras + Syona Metha

DESIGN ROOM

Sofia Kalmyklova + Sebastian Denes + Yara Al Maalouf + Annabelle Rosemberg Sanchez + Mariami Sekhniashvili + Maria N. Ruzhinova + Syona Metha + Victoria Rossi

PRODUCTION

Antonia Altimiras + Alejandro Castro + Ayana Honjo + Sofia Diaz + Eden Carrodeguas + Nina Zhvania

Softcover
180 pages
210×297×15,5mm
720g

ISBN 978-84-09-86050-0