Keyword: Biodiversity
- contributionRavi Agarwal
It's Not So Bad to be Wild, Wilful and Peaceful
Conservation biologist and author Neha Sinha addresses animal sentience, arguing that understanding the wilful animal is a means of understanding our own place in the world.
Reflection, Engagement, Conversation, Species, Ecology, Environmental Justice, Biodiversity, Human-environment relations, Human-animal relations, Agency
- projectRavi Agarwal
Literature and Conversations: State of Nature 2022
Curator of literature Ranjit Hoskote conceptualised a program of conversations with prominent writers, poets, and essayists for State of Nature: New Natures, 2022.
Communicating, Engagement, Conversation, Species, Human-environment relations, Environmental Justice, Scale, Knowledge production, Biodiversity, Agency, Human-animal relations
- projectRavi Agarwal
Dialogues: State of Nature 2022
A three-day conference bringing together perspectives and frameworks representative of current contemporary thought in ecopoetics, habitat conservation, and social justice.
Conversation, Engagement, Intervention, Climate change, Ecology, Environmental Justice, Biodiversity
- projectBuhm Soon Park, Myung Ae Choi, Seul-gi Lee
Centre for Anthropocene Studies, South Korea 2018–
Provoking a paradigm shift in academic research, public policy, and social engagement through collaborations with scientists and artists.
Sensing, Teaching, Engagement, Conversation, History, Disaster, Species, Biodiversity, Agency
- contributionOrit Halpern, Stephen Himson, Sophia Roosth, Mark Williams, Matthew C. Wilson
Clashing Presents: Memory and Oblivion in Times of Extinction
Exploring the accelerating processes and cumulative events of species extinction by examining biotic changes in the sediments of the San Francisco Bay.
Conversation, Reflection, Extinction, Species, Deep time, Time, Biodiversity
- contributionSarah Lewison, Lynn Peemoeller, Andrew Yang
Encountering Para-Human Species
Non-human species sometimes mediate societal processes of marginalization, but they can also play a role in solidarity. What might we learn from other species?
Communicating, Human-animal relations, Affect, Agriculture, Biodiversity
- contributionLynn Peemoeller, Saundi McClain-Kloeckener
Seed of Knowledge
An Interview with indigenous leader Saundi McClain-Kloeckner.
Agriculture, Biodiversity, Care, Knowledge transformation
- contributionMichael Swierz, Maureen Walrath
Take-Home Guide for Navigating the Ecosystem
Downloadable instructions for building a miniature boat that offer an intuitive exercise in navigating our own eco-cosmological embodiment.
Intervention, Sensing, Ecology, Local knowledge, Biodiversity
- contributionEllie Irons
Re-patterning with Kudzu: Reckoning in Search of Regeneration
Artist Ellie Irons documents her travels to Natchez, Mississippi, to meet the American kudzu plant on the contested terrain it has colonized.
Case Study, Storytelling, Species, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Settler Colonialism, Migration, Race
- contributionSarah Lewison
Of Forests, of Rivers, and of Meals
How can we think through concerns around food, sustainability and recuperative ecology on a localized level?
Engagement, Sensing, Biodiversity, Food
- contributionLynn Peemoeller
Edible Encounters
Exploring niches of ecological autonomy through a series of food encounters.
Field Work, Engagement, Biodiversity, Agriculture, Food
- contributionTreasure Shields Redmond
#BlackBoyJoy On the River with Eugene B. Redmond
Treasure Shields Redmond and Eugene B. Redmond are joined by Jennifer Colten to talk about the Mississippi River as a backdrop of life.
Conversation, History, Water, Biodiversity, Pollution, Community
- contributionNatalie Mueller
In Search of Lost Crops Where the Buffalo Roam
A reflection by archaeologist and ethnobotanist Natalie G. Mueller on how sharing meal of long lost plants transformed her research perspective.
Case Study, Experiment, Reflection, Human-animal relations, Adaptation, Biodiversity, Agriculture
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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National Museum of Natural History and Science, Lisbon, Portugal
Conversation, Field Work, Big data, Education, Biodiversity
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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National Museum of Natural History and Science, Lisbon, Portugal
Field Study, Teaching, Architecture, Biodiversity, Access
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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National Museum of Natural History and Science, Lisbon, Portugal
Field Study, Biodiversity, Ecology, Epistemology
- Field Notesimon.turner
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London, United Kingdom
Storytelling, Field Work, Monitoring, Biodiversity, Ecology, Life, River journey, Geo-ecologies
- contributionTemporary continent., Andrew Yang
Defensive Ecologies: Extracting Asian Carp from the Illinois River
A welcome service laborer turned invasive pest in the Mississippi River, Asian Carp are subject to a variety of efforts to exert control upon their spread and attempts to extract them from the Illinois River.
Field Work, Case Study, Ecology, Biodiversity, Human-animal relations
- contributionTemporary continent., Andrew Yang
The Possibility of All Species in an “All Species Parade”
The annual “All Species Puppet Parade” in Carbondale prompts Andrew Yang to contemplate just how all-encompassing the phrase really is.
Field Work, Storytelling, Case Study, Ecology, Species, Human-animal relations, Biodiversity
- Field Noteipgray
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Louisiana, USA
Biodiversity, Ecology
- Field Noteipgray
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Louisiana, USA
Biodiversity, Human-environment relations
- Field Noteipgray
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Louisiana, USA
Biodiversity, Ecology, Human-animal relations
- Field Noteayse
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Adaptation, Agency, Biodiversity, Climate change, Complexity, Future, Knowledge transformation, Landscape, Perception, Flooding, 2019
- Field Noteemily.sekine
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Hampton, Illinois, USA
Sensing, Field Study, Field Work, Film, Sound, Engagement, Biodiversity, Embodiment, Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations
- Field Noteslewison
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Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Adaptation, Biodiversity, Climate change, Complexity, Contingency, Degradation, Ecology, Evolution, Landscape, Life, Resilience, Adventitious, Geo-ecologies
- contributionTemporary continent., Louise Carver
Mater and Mattering the Mississippi: Mother River and Mother Tongues
Honing in on the “sentiment” that acts as one of the focuses of Field Station 1, in this text, Louise Carver for Temporary continent. considers how the Mississippi River can be read as an embodiment of matrilineal flow.
Film, Storytelling, Reflection, Biodiversity, Ecology, Sedimentation, Care
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Aesthetics, Biodiversity, Local knowledge
- contributionLynn Peemoeller, Bill Iseminger, Katie Englemeyer, Susan Bostwick, Jennifer McBride, Rob Connoley, Gayle Fritz, Natalie Mueller
Lost Crops Conversation
A conversation on the evolution of agriculture and foodways, and how that has affected representations of landscape, cuisine—and a cracker box.
Conversation, Agriculture, Representation, Landscape, Biodiversity, Human-environment relations
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Baraboo, Wisconsin, USA
Field Study, Intervention, Biodiversity, Contingency, Human-environment relations, Cement, Fieldstation
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Baraboo, Wisconsin, USA
Case Study, Biodiversity, Landscape, Ammunition
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Baraboo, Wisconsin, USA
Case Study, Biodiversity, Landscape, Ammunition
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Kickapoo Valley, Wisconsin, USA
Field Study, Biodiversity, Ecology, Colonialism
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Stoddard, Wisconsin, USA
Field Work, Conversation, Biodiversity
- projectEllie Irons
Re-Patterning with Kudzu
The introduction of Kudzu into the American South has a storied history connecting rhetoric around migration and race with ecology.
Case Study, Storytelling, Species, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Settler Colonialism, Migration, Race
- contributionRyan Griffis
The Great Green Desert
Input by Ryan Griffis on the collaborative film project A Great Green Desert which focuses on the agricultural practice of monocropping
Biodiversity, Landscape, Ecology
- projectRobert N. Spengler, Natalie Mueller
Ancient Bison Herds of the American Midwest and the Domestication of the Lost Crops
How did the ancestors of early agricultural crops spread across space? A research project on the influence of animals on human farming practices.
Field Work, Human-animal relations, Deep time, Agriculture, Landscape, History, Biodiversity
- projectBrandi Bethke, William Taylor, Sarah Trabert
Horses, Donkeys, and the Anthropocene in the Greater Mississippi
Field Work, Human-animal relations, Landscape, Biodiversity
- contributionLynn Peemoeller
Eating the Anthropocene
How can we encounter ourselves in the Anthropocene? A study in the deconstruction of cows and an introduction to “The Lost Crops of America” project.
Field Study, Extinction, Biodiversity, Agriculture, Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations, Socio-ecological design, History, Deep time, Metabolism, Landscape, Food
- projectJoe Underhill, Roopali Phadke, Bruce Braun, Ryan Griffis, Sarah Lewison, Matthew Fluharty, Andrew Yang, Alya Ansari
Project Launch Minneapolis
Field Study, Intervention, Reflection, Storytelling, Teaching, Water, Infrastructure, Engineering, Human-environment relations, Ecology, Climate change, Local knowledge, History, Biodiversity
- projectMichael Swierz, Maureen Walrath
This Is Not About Survival
This project documents an embodied inhabitation of the Southern Illinois canebrake habitat that is quickly disappearing from the landscape.
Intervention, Local knowledge, Ecology, Biodiversity
- projectMatthew Fluharty, Jennifer Colten
Monsanto Town
Corporate personhood has rearticulated how agricultural giant Monsanto operates legally on the landscape.
Case Study, Field Study, Agriculture, Governance, Policy, Landscape, Capitalism, Biodiversity, History, Ethics
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Field Station 2 | Restoring the Land
Day two of Over the Levee, Under the Plow takes place at the Kickapoo Valley Reserve. Examining Native and non-Native practices of conservation, this full day of seminars will work through the multivalent meanings of the term “restoration”.
Case Study, Storytelling, Reflection, History, Local knowledge, Agriculture, Landscape, Water, Resilience, Flood, Engineering, Metabolism, Biodiversity, Settler Colonialism, Glaciation, Environmental Justice
- contributionDavid Kelly
Conundrums on Country
How can we forge novel ways of human-environment interactions? A field trip to Melbourne’s sustainability center CERES set out to explore this question.
Adaptation, Biodiversity, Ecology
- contributionPatricia Piccinni, Claudia Vickers
Panel talk beween Patricia Piccinini and Claudia Vickers
Artist Patricia Piccinini and synthetic biologist Claudia Vickers discuss novel forms of life and science’s role in shaping conceptions and imaginations of the world.
Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations, Aesthetics, Biodiversity, Agency
- contributionNasrin Tabatabai, Babak Afrassiabi
Kish, an Island Indecisive by Design
The Iranian island of Kish exemplifies how territorial separation can lead to political and economic hubris in the form of a globalized free-trade zone.
Storytelling, Technosphere, Biodiversity, History, Life
- contributionGregory T. Cushman
Romancing the Anthropocene
Adventures between Technofauna and Mauerite: A personal narrative of travels in the Anthropozöic region of Berlin Moabit in the year 2016.
Storytelling, Biodiversity, Urbanism
- projectAlexandra Toland, Elena Bougleux, Herbert Lohner, Myriel Milićević
Seminar: Romancing the Anthropocene
Tracing shadows—an examination of technological datasets and Romantic concepts in the study area of Berlin-Moabit.
Field Work, Mapping, Knowledge transformation, Aesthetics, Biodiversity, Urbanism
- contributionGodofredo Pereira
Anomalous Alliances
Godofredo Pereira on the Yasuní-ITT initiative and the de-colonial possibilities of techno-scientific practices
Technoscience, Human-environment relations, Biodiversity, Knowledge infrastructure, Colonialism
- projectMiriam Diamond, Paul N. Edwards, Pablo Jensen, Chris Strashok, Thilo Wiertz
Seminar: Modeling Wicked Problems
Applying transdisciplinary systems models to problems such as climate change or global food supply gives us useful heuristics, while forcing us to think about complexity and witness nonlinear and counterintuitive outcomes.
Teaching, Experiment, Modeling, Complexity, System, Epistemology, Biodiversity, Climate change, Model
- contributionAndrew Yang
Remnant Formations
A study on a particular ant, the Pheidole morrisi, across a wide latitudinal gradient
Case Study, Human-animal relations, Biodiversity
