Contribution with the text Clear as water in Hydrofutures: Marrakech zine, realised in the frame of Hydrofutures, a three weeks workshop proposed in the framework of QANAT, that adopted Science fiction as a tool to reimagine the spaces and places of Marrakech and to rethink the past, present and future of the city. 

By intersecting speculative fiction, the politics of water and the aesthetics of its futurability, throughout the workshop participants engaged in drawing and writing exercises, short readings, discussions and movie screenings to explore Sci-Fi and its historical connections to social and political movements across the world. We explored the politics of water within the context of the city through a number of field trips and in dialogue with local activists and researchers such as Fayrouz Yousfi, Mohamed Lihyaoui and Thierry Ruf, working on water-related struggles and political-economic transformations.

The workshop was closed by a public evening of participative role-playing, listening and reading sessions, as well as the release of the Hydrofutures: Marrakech zine.

The workshops has been initiated by Shayma Nader, Callum Copley and Faiq Mari with the external contributions by Fayrouz Yousfi, Mohamed Lihyaoui, Thierry Ruf and the participants – Amine Lahrach, Alaya Ang, Annalisa Cannito, Francsca Masoero, Amine Naima, Ihssane Touzani, Mandy Sinclair, Noureddine Ezarraf, Mehdi Ouahmani.