A research project run by the KTH Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment from 2021-2025 exploring the global environment as emerging through environmental data.

The historical research project SPHERE focuses on one of the most comprehensive and complex governance issues in the contemporary world: humanity’s relation to planetary conditions and constraints.

Understanding the changing human-Earth relation of the Anthropocene by combining research on technology, media, and political ecology with activism and front-line environmentalism.

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.

A three-day conference bringing together perspectives and frameworks representative of current contemporary thought in ecopoetics, habitat conservation, and social justice.

Since 2018, the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai, has focused on the key questions surrounding ecology.

Conversations on the question of habitability and the task of keeping the Earth hospitable.

Six Brazilian researchers from different areas talk about ways of approaching the brutal effects of climate change.

The Cosmic Conversations project brings together researchers from across disciplines to discuss ecological, artistic, political, and philosophical issues related to Anthropocene research.

Part of State of Nature 2022, the exhibition New Natures: A Terrible Beauty is Born was a proposition to rethink the world as we know it today.

Comparing the approaches to radioactive fallout in the US and USSR, Kate Brown retraces the ways in which radio biologists and ecologists assessed and contorted radioactive contamination to study the resilience of ecosystems and human bodies.

Media scholar Adam Wickberg outlines ​​how knowledge about the environment and media technologies ​have always ​evolve​d​ in tandem​; the history of anthropogenic markers can therefore be understood as a process of environing media.

Assessing the effects of artificial radioactivity on human bodies and natural environments has a special place in the history of risk regulation, and has provided a key basis for understanding and defining the anthropogenic danger to life on Earth.

How do tropes and images of a changing ocean operate in a larger system of cultural sensemaking? Killian Quigley collects a range of threads to map the disfiguration and deformation of an anthropocenic biosphere that swells below the sea’s surface.

Christoph Rosol sketches out the marriage of paleoceanography with isotope chemistry in the middle of the twentieth century, part of a synchronism between the onset of the Anthropocene and the emergence of the technical means of understanding it.

We live to burn and we burn to live. Artist Matthew C. Wilson pieces together the pyrogenic deep time of rifts, violent changes that also always produce new possibilities.

Poet and author Ruth Padel delivers the second keynote lecture of the State of Nature: Dialogues conference.

Researcher Michael Marker gives the first keynote lecture of the State of Nature: Dialogues conference.

What does it mean to sense, to know, to witness? Artists Shahana Rajani and Zahra Malkani propose an “ecopedagogy” that awakens us to a network of relationality.

Imagining the satirical intersection between two disparate worlds—field biology research on army ants and working for a machine learning startup.

For the assisted readymade Fourteen Slices of Time (2020) fourteen custom-printed postcards—souvenirs that trigger memories of Earth—are displayed on a simple stand that fits inside of an archetypal American mailbox.

Mississippi Multiverse is an immersive film that starts from an embodied sensorial practice to reckon with the ecological impact of petrochemical industries along the river.

What is the sound of the Lower Mississippi, a “superhighway” through which huge proportions of exported goods from the US are shipped every day?

Downloadable instructions for building a miniature boat that offer an intuitive exercise in navigating our own eco-cosmological embodiment.

Attuning oneself to the transformations of the Anthropocene is both an intellectual and embodied experience. But how can the embodied experiences be shared, or even communicated, to one another online?

Closing the opening week of The Shape of a Practice, this meal-at-a-distance brought speakers to the transatlantic kitchen table along with so-called invasive species from the US and Germany.

Two case studies focus on two very different landscapes, and attempt to account for the changing relationships that make them over time.

Space for studying Anthropocene-related changes can occur intentionally, through institutions and other projects, but it can just as easily occur by accident.

Some of the most interesting work on the Anthropocene takes place in between places, in between disciplines, and even in between the lines.

Artists discuss sturgeons pushed to the edge of extinction and the future of a chemically polluted river near Cape Town.

The most challenging aspects of doing Anthropocene research require learning how local realities may inform broader global issues.

The first screening session of The Shape of a Practice featured film and performance that negotiates different research practices of archiving, and enacting embodied relationships.

Critical insights from and impressions of the Anthropocene River Campus: The Human Delta, which took place in New Orleans in November 2019.

Jeremy Bolen traces the various human interventions that have shaped Cache River Valley in Southern Illinois, asking what can be learned from this landscape.

A series of flash nonfiction pieces chronicling some of the rogue elements encountered during the Anthropocene River Journey.

On data provenance: what does it mean to think about data through maize and to think about maize through data?

Taking a bus tour through the landscapes of the Confluence territory.

What does aesthetic regionalism disclose about local effects of the Anthropocene?

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.

The annual “All Species Puppet Parade” in Carbondale prompts Andrew Yang to contemplate just how all-encompassing the phrase really is.

Reflecting on a workshop where participants engaged in a sensorial manner with the invasive kudzu plant—creating watercolor paints from its blossoms and leaves.

Temporary continent. on how the windows of “opportunity” that speculation focused on Minneapolis’ riverside has brought forth can also be understood as a source of hope in terms of environmental justice.

Katharine Ordway, Fall 2018 represents a stationary gesture amid the distanced movements comprising the Listening to the Mississippi project.

Sadie Luetmer’s project will entail writing about the headwaters region in Minnesota, Anishinaabe territory, reflecting upon the maps and relations she once learned and is now unlearning and learning again.

Moving from political economy to political ecology: an invitation to get involved.

Input by Ryan Griffis on the collaborative film project A Great Green Desert which focuses on the agricultural practice of monocropping

How have early agricultural practices shaped and altered the environment of the Mississippi? This research project turns to the cultivation of maize to tackle this question.

Opening words to the symposium and the Anthropocene River project.

Listening to the stories and sounds that resonate around the Mississippi can show how ecosystems exist within multiple crisscrossing interrelations.

A project on the ephemeral art of carving water.

Over the course of eighty days, this canoe expedition offers an immersive research program on and along the Mississippi River.

The role of engineering river systems toward human aims and the consequences this has on multiple scales is the key concern of this seminar.

The Anthropocene River School integrates the work of the Anthropocene River Field Stations and transforms the research into an ongoing, collaborative teaching enterprise.

At the “Midway Meeting” in St. Louis, project partners gathered to explore the temporal and topographical multiplicitices of the metropolitcan region of St. Louis.

This project documents an embodied inhabitation of the Southern Illinois canebrake habitat that is quickly disappearing from the landscape.

This Field Station sets out to engage with the ecologic-economic-technological infrastructures between Kentucky and Illinois and will bring a regionally focused lens to the globally entangled Anthropocene condition.

How has the extraction of coal throughout Illinois changed the local landscapes and living conditions? A field trip to the Middle Fork of the Vermillion River examined both the intentional as well as unintended, or “feral,” consequences and responses to the practice of coal mining.

What is the relation between large-scale agriculture and biome change? An examination of the infrastructure of the monocrop industry in the Midwestern United States.

Five Field Stations along the Mississippi River explore novel ways of reading the dynamic Mississippi landscape.

Essays from members of the AWG and other researchers discussing some of the crucial aspects that make the Mississippi River an icon of global Anthropocene transformations.

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.

The guiding question of this field report to Melbourne’s sewage treatment plant concerns the temporalities intrinsic to human-made infrastructures.

Historian of science Sabine Höhler explores the technoscientific motives and consequences of experimenting with self-contained ecospheres.

Artist and environmental humanities scholar Elaine Gan tells the story of two different grains of rice. To engineer the ecology and growth cycles of these grains is to change river flows and the multiple rhythms of life and death.

Is death actually the antagonist of life? In her talk about seeds that are stored in a permafrost environment at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, historian of science Sophia Roosth suggests that suspending living matter challenges our notions of life.

Combustion engines, dynamite fishing, and the violent reshaping of terrestrial and marine landscapes: philosopher and chemist Jens Soentgen considers explosions a key principle of modernity.

The technological dissolution between internal and external conditions for life is manifest in the way seeds are handled. A series of conversations explores the practices and ideologies behind the collapse of modification and mutation. A subsequent performance of micro-processions will conjure historical and current moments of the agro-industrial technosphere.

Social scientists Liv Østmo and John Law explain how threats to the relational practices of the Sámi, who have lived in the Arctic regions of Scandinavia for millennia, complicates the ontology of an entire region.

Andrew Chubb maps the complex space of maritime East Asia, tying together land rights, historical geopolitics, and the creation of artificial islands that construct it.

As a term “Anthropocene” is linguistic, cultural, and supposedly natural all at the same time what are its possibilities and limits?

Deep Time Chicago explores the idea of humanity as a geological agency, capable of disrupting the Earth system and inscribing present modes of existence into deep time.

The human body produces five hundred liters of urine and fifty liters of feces per year, which is equivalent to about half a kilogram of phosphorus. One day’s urine from an adult is sufficient to fertilize a square meter of cropped area for each cropping period.

In his artistic narration, Nile Koetting cycles through a series of inquiries about free and ubiquitous energy and the spectacle that results.

A conversation on ruderal ecologies, unintended landscape design and the pitfalls of Anthropocene discourse.

A conversation between Caroline Picard and Jenni Nurmenniemi on how the Helsinki International Artist Programm creates a space for complexity.

On turning your ear into a transducer and living in the clouds. A talk with composer Samuel Hertz about porous bodies.