Keyword: Engineering
- contributionBenjamin Johnson
Closed Chemical Cycles
It’s possible that the most suitable golden spike for marking the beginning of the Anthropocene does not yet exist.
Reflection, Carbon, Energy, Deep time, Economy, Engineering, Future, Governance, System
- contributionBenjamin Steininger
Molecular Mobilization
How can an archaeology of the present address molecules as driving elements of the “Great Acceleration”? Benjamin Steininger contends that the apparatus of catalytic chemistry has triggered a cascade of accelerations which lead to the Anthropocene.
Storytelling, Carbon, Commodities, Energy, Infrastructure, Engineering, Metabolism, Technosphere, Transportation
- contributionJan Zalasiewicz, Peter K. Haff, Matt Edgeworth, Juliana A. Ivar do Sul, Daniel Richter
The Technofossil Record: Where Archaeology and Paleontology Meet
Field Work, Commodities, Deep time, Engineering, Scale, Stratigraphy, Technosphere
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OVERFLOW
The Chicago edition of an artist-run exhibition and retrospective that curates new and existing work related to the 2019 project Mississippi. An Anthropocene River. Hosted by the artistic research group Deep Time Chicago and conceived in collaboration with the Backward River Festival.
Field Study, Conversation, Engagement, Settler Colonialism, Urbanism, Sharing economy, Engineering, Violence, Water
- contributionFlorike Egmond
Water as a Way of Life (and Death)
Historian Florike Egmond (University of Leiden) gives a keynote lecture about the historic relationship between humans and water on the Dutch river delta.
Teaching, Adaptation, Engineering, Flood, History, Human-environment relations, Water
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OVERFLOW
An artist-run exhibition and retrospective that curates new and existing work related to the 2019 project Mississippi. An Anthropocene River. Gathers energy with an opening in Minneapolis before setting out on meanders further downstream.
Field Study, Conversation, Engagement, Settler Colonialism, Urbanism, Sharing economy, Engineering, Violence, Water
- contributionJeffrey Treffinger, John Koeferl
Uncalculated Risk
A brief history of New Orleans’ industrial canal and the risk to life posed by obsolete ideas in an era of planetary change.
Case Study, Engagement, Intervention, Water, Engineering, Environmental Justice, Risk, Local knowledge, Disaster
- contributionAron Chang
Drawn Together
On drawing as a core methodology, not only to record and understand dynamic conditions but also to devise new approaches and imaginaries for New Orleans and beyond.
Engagement, Field Study, Field Work, Reflection, Conversation, Imaginary, Infrastructure, Adaptation, Complexity, Engineering, Human-environment relations, Sustainability, Speculative
- contributionJeremy Bolen, Temporary continent.
Time Out Of Mind
Jeremy Bolen traces the various human interventions that have shaped Cache River Valley in Southern Illinois, asking what can be learned from this landscape.
Conversation, Engagement, Sound, Ecology, Human-environment relations, Engineering, Adaptation
- contributionThomas Turnbull
A Suspended Archive
Field work undertaken on the Mississippi River dissolves the distinction between field and archive, evidencing not just attempts to alter the river’s flow, but similarly shifting cultural and political dynamics.
Field Work, Reflection, Human-environment relations, Settler Colonialism, History, Engineering, Water
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Alqueva Dam, Alentejo, Portugal
Field Work, Sound, Energy, Engineering, Scale, Access, Industrialization
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Alqueva Dam, Alentejo, Portugal
Field Study, Mapping, Engineering, Human-environment relations
- contributionEleonora Rohland
Arriving in the Anthropocene: 300 years of adaptation to hurricanes and Mississippi floods in New Orleans
In keeping with many of the themes underpinning the Anthropocene River Campus, Eleonora Rohland explains how the question of adaptation so present post-Katrina has a much longer history in NOLA.
Case Study, Reflection, Adaptation, Urbanism, Engineering, Settler Colonialism
- contributionSadie Luetmer
Seminar Film: Un/bounded Engineering and Evolutionary Stability
This short film offers insights into the perspectives and methods of the seminar on “Un/bounded Engineering and Evolutionary Stability,” which took place within the framework of the Anthropocene River Campus, 2019.
Field Work, Engineering, Technosphere, Infrastructure, Sedimentation
- Field Noteipgray
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Engineering, Infrastructure
- Field NoteAmalia
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Engineering, Infrastructure, Scale, Sedimentation, Risk
- Field NoteAmalia
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LaPlace, Louisiana, USA
Engineering, Infrastructure
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Anthropocene River: Public Opening Anthropocene River Campus
A public program from November 10–16th, 2019, with presentations and discussions by the Mississippi. An Anthropocene River project partners and the Anthropocene Working Group.
Conversation, Reflection, Teaching, Storytelling, Field Study, Experiment, Commodities, Agency, Disaster, Disciplinarity, Economy, Education, Engagement, Epistemology, Engineering, Energy, Ethics, Flood, History, Ocean, Urbanism, Water, Socio-ecological design
- contributionTemporary continent., Regan Golden
Immersion from the Observation Deck
Regan Golden proposes the observation deck at the Visitor Center of St. Anthony as a space for thinking about one’s relationship with—and detachment from—landscape.
Sensing, Reflection, Field Work, Engineering, Infrastructure, Human-environment relations, Urbanism
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Sauget, Illinois, USA
Mapping, Sound, Engagement, Engineering, History, Monsanto
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Field Study, Field Work, Capitalism, Commodities, Engineering, Cement
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Commodities, Economy, Engineering, Infrastructure, Transport, Barge
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Anthropos, Architecture, Deep time, Ecology, Engineering, Extinction, Infrastructure, Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Rights, Dakota, Fieldstation, Colonialism, Temporary Continent, 2019, Andrea Carlson
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Genoa, Wisconsin, USA
Sound, Affect, Engineering, Navigation
- Field Noteemily.sekine
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Winona County, Minnesota, USA
Field Study, Mapping, Field Work, Complexity, Contingency, Engineering, Flood, Infrastructure, Landscape, Network, Navigation
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Anthropocene River Journey | Kick-Off
With a regional focus on the Mississippi headwaters, this kick-off event at Lake Itasca will offer public workshop, discussions, and site visits with artists, scholars, and activists.
Teaching, Field Study, Storytelling, Water, Knowledge infrastructure, Local knowledge, Infrastructure, Engineering, Biosphere, Naturecultures
- projectBrian Holmes
Into the Breach
The geo-engineering efforts undertaken at the Mississippi mirror an ongoing belief in the human ability to predict, control, and regulate an entire eco-system of continental-scale. What could a more adaptive system of river management look like?
Field Study, Flood, Infrastructure, Engineering, Human-environment relations
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Field Station 1 | Sediment, Settlement, Sentiment: The Machinic River
Boat and walking tours, sound installations, workshops, panel discussions and film screenings around the Twin Cities region explore the Mississippi River as a space of intervention and experimentation.
Case Study, Storytelling, Reflection, Sound, Film, Infrastructure, Sedimentation, Water, History, Energy, Engineering, Aesthetics, Mechanosphere, Settler Colonialism, Inequality, Technosphere, Environmental Justice
- projectDerek Hoeferlin, Jorg Sieweke, Jelagat Cheruiyot, Aron Chang, Nikiwe Solomon, Tanya James, Cyndhia Ramatchandirane, Greta Gladney, Richard Hindle
Seminar: Un/bounded Engineering and Evolutionary Stability
The role of engineering river systems toward human aims and the consequences this has on multiple scales is the key concern of this seminar.
Case Study, Teaching, Engineering, Evolution, Human-environment relations, Infrastructure, Complexity, Ecology, Disaster, Technoscience, Technosphere, Risk, Sedimentation
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Anthropocene River Campus: The Human Delta
The Anthropocene River Campus: The Human Delta synthesized the downstream Mississippi within a week-long field research and educational event at Tulane University, as well as sites in and around New Orleans.
Teaching, Storytelling, Field Study, Experiment, Commodities, Agency, Disaster, Disciplinarity, Economy, Education, Engagement, Epistemology, Engineering, Energy, Ethics, Flood, History, Ocean, Urbanism, Water, Socio-ecological design
- 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
- projectMorgan Adamson, Bruce Braun, Roopali Phadke
Contesting the De-industrial Futures of the Upper Mississippi
A multilayered project towards the de-regulation of nature.
Case Study, Intervention, Field Study, Urbanism, Water, Engineering, Capitalism, Human-environment relations, Industrialization
- projectKayla Anderson, Sara Black, Jeremy Bolen, Beate Geissler, Amber Ginsburg, Brian Holmes, Jenny Kendler, Brian Kirkbride, Sarah Lewison, Marlena Novak, Claire Pentecost, Oliver Sann, Michael Swierz, Andrew Yang, Jay Alan Yim
Field Station 4: Confluence Ecologies
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.
Field Work, Mapping, Engineering, Water, Habits, Capitalism, Ecology, Socio-ecological design, Human-animal relations, Energy, Radioactivity, Waste, Geo-engineering, Industrialization
- projectMorgan Adamson, Mark Borrello, Bruce Braun, Andrea Carlson, Jen Caruso, Jodi Enos-Berlage, Tia-Simone Gardner, Monica Moses Haller, Jane Hawley, Simi Kang, Anya Kaplan-Seem, John Kim, Boris Oicherman, Roopali Phadke, Max Ritts, Daniela Sandler, Jenny Schmid, Joe Underhill, Michael Winikoff, Simona Zappas
Field Station 1: Sediment, Settlement, Sentiment
The stretch of the Mississippi between Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa is marked both by its “natural” and “anthropogenic” origin.
Case Study, Field Work, Field Study, Storytelling, Sensing, Sedimentation, Local knowledge, Capitalism, Water, Engineering, Infrastructure, Aesthetics, Governance, Settler Colonialism, Violence, Environmental Justice
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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
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Mississippi. An Anthropocene River 2018–19
Mississippi. An Anthropocene River aims to make the Mississippi River Basin legible as a zone of ecological, historical, and social interaction between humans and the environment using novel forms of exchange, research, collaboration, and pedagogy.
Experiment, Field Study, Field Work, Mapping, Sensing, Storytelling, Teaching, Agriculture, Capitalism, Climate change, Commodities, Complexity, Disaster, Energy, Disciplinarity, Embodiment, Engineering, Flood, History, Human-environment relations, Infrastructure, Local knowledge, System, Transportation, Urbanism, Waste
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1948 Unbound
The year 1948 serves as an aperture through which we can rethink the history of the now; the decisive moment when the heap of fragments left by the fury of two world wars began to reassemble into new forms of technological, scientific, and cultural order that inform our contemporary situation.
Conversation, Reflection, Film, Intervention, Consensus Building, Storytelling, Teaching, Agency, Agriculture, Big data, Calculation, Complexity, Cybernetics, Future, Governance, Infrastructure, Knowledge transformation, Indigenous Rights, Modernity, Risk, Scenario, Speculative, Technoscience, Technosphere, Waste, Engineering, Metabolism
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Technosphere × Knowledge
A new component of the Earth system is emerging today driven by the intertwining of natural environments with vast socio-technical forces and increasingly diverse technological species. Technosphere × Knowledge marked the launch of the Anthropocene Campus: The Technosphere Issue.
Consensus Building, Conversation, Engagement, Film, Reflection, Modeling, Teaching, Adaptation, Big data, Computation, Consensus, Disciplinarity, Education, Future, Engineering, Knowledge infrastructure, Infrastructure, Technosphere, Technoscience, Platform, Policy
- projectPeter K. Haff, Mark Hansen, Jennifer Gabrys, Donald MacKenzie, Birgit Schneider, Mushon Zer-Aviv
Datum: On the Calculus of the Technosphere
Data defines the relationship of the technosphere to itself and the world around it. But where is it? How does it rework the body politic or our biological substratum itself?
Conversation, Engagement, Monitoring, Teaching, Storytelling, Big data, Calculation, Autonomy, Complexity, Computation, Cybernetics, Data, Engineering, Infrastructure, Perception, Model, Socio-ecological design, Technosphere
