Charlotte Qin is a Chinese-Canadian contemporary artist and artivist based in Geneva, Switzerland. Rooted in an interdisciplinary background spanning physics, design, and engineering, she studied at McGill University in Montreal before earning a double master’s degree in Innovation Design Engineering from the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London. Her practice weaves art, science, and advocacy, seeking to restore humanity’s relationship with water—not only as a natural entity but as a spiritual and ethical foundation of life.
For the past four years, Charlotte’s work has been shaped by direct engagement in water advocacy, restoration, and climate change solutions across Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas. She collaborates with scientists, policymakers, and humanitarians to challenge conventional narratives around water, emphasizing its role beyond a resource—as a living, sacred force that sustains cultures, ecosystems, and human dignity.
She is the founder of Meeting of Waters, a contemporary practice operating in the world of science policy and artivism. Through this platform, she has contributed to global dialogues on water ethics and climate resilience, including her participation at the UN 2023 Water Conference in New York, UN Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai, and COP29 in Baku in collaboration with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Charlotte’s artistic expression flows across painting, calligraphy, sculpture, performance, and scientific visualization, embodying water’s fluidity and depth. Her performances in natural water bodies serve as meditative acts—rituals of remembrance and reconciliation that invite collective reflection on water’s significance in both planetary and inner landscapes. Her work, deeply informed by her Christian faith, bridges the seen and unseen, the material and the divine, offering a poetic call to honor water as a sacred and living presence in our shared future.