what’s news Roca Gallery The lives of water exhibition travels to the Roca Lisboa Gallery, in partnership with Doctors Without Borders Featuring the work of photojournalist Juan Carlos Tomasi, the exhibition brings together images of the Sahel in Niger, where the lack of rainwater storage infrastructures causes shortages Following its success at the Roca Barcelona Gallery, the exhibition The lives of water, organised by the We Are Water Foundation in partnership with NGO Doctors Without Borders, has arrived at the Roca Lisboa Gallery to show the harsh realities of life for the inhabitants of the Sahel in Niger, one of the areas of Africa worst-hit by floods and droughts. Renowned photojournalist Juan Carlos Tomasi has sought to portray this issue with a range of powerful images that depict the malnutrition and diseases caused by the lack of drinking water. Photojournalist Juan Carlos Tomasi Six Portuguese universities take part in the first Flash Competition by Roca Students faced the challenge of creating a bathroom solution for public spaces in just 12 hours Architecture and design students from six Portuguese universities came to the Roca Lisboa Gallery to tackle the challenge of the Flash Competition by Roca, the speed design challenge organised in partnership with architects NGA. In total, 41 students successfully took on the challenge of creating a bathroom space suitable for places attracting a large public, such as Lisbon’s Avenida da Liberdade and Eduardo VII Park. The jury named the team of David Maciel and Pedro Pereira winners of this first edition, for their project based on a portable, ecological and self-sustaining toilet, organised into two independent, easily installed and dismantled modules, whose operation is based on recycling greywater and the use of alternative energies. Students working at the Roca Lisboa Gallery 26