Hydrofeminist Map Collective

Formed in September 2024 by Nora Almeida, Estefania Mompean Botias, andrea haenggi, and Jordan Packer, the Collective explores relationships between human bodies and water bodies through somatic and interventionist public actions in the context of climate chaos. At the heart of our project is the concept of the “sentinel body”—a body attuned to its surroundings, sensing and transmitting subtle shifts in the environment. Through this awareness, we explore what it means to “become with water,” cultivating a deeper relationship to the ecological and social dynamics of urban waterscapes.

Hold Fast: Habitability is Fluid

With Bladderwrack, Red Hook, Lenapehoking, September 2025

Liquid Cartographies Festival, September 20, 2025 Photos by Coman from TEN
Radiant Cold

With the East River Estuary, 4 Saturdays across February and March 2025

4 Saturdays in February and March–East River Brooklyn to the Bronx, Photos by Aiesha Bennett and Ahcsia

Spatial Intervention and Urban Transformation

Gowanus, Lenapehoking October 2024

October 19, 2024 Gowanus, Lenapehoking. Event photos by Chris Jordan.
Group on Whole Foods "Public Promenade" somatic movement
Hydrofeminists looking at canal from dead end on Bond
Public looking at canal from dead end on Bond
Installing a sign on a barbed wire fence
Hydrofeminists looking at canal from dead end on Bond
Group gathered at Bond Street dead end
Is toxicity a network wheatpaste
Public interacts with signage during mapping
annotated signage by participants
Tough install inside of a mesh net over a fence on private property
what does urban change feel like?
Gathering at Bond Street dead end

Embodied Mapping and Urban Transformation

Creative Time Summit, Downtown Brooklyn (Lenapehoking), September 2024

September 22, 2024 in Downtown Brooklyn, Lenapehoking. Event photos by Aiesha Bennett