Keyword: Infrastructure
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What if the Dam was removed?
What could a single major infrastructural decision tell us about the situational contexts of bringing about lasting change?
Case Study, Conversation, Infrastructure, Governance, Landscape, Agency, Water
- 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
- contributionCristián Simonetti, Matt Edgeworth
Concrete: A Stratigraphic Marker for the Anthropocene
We are live in the venerable International Court of Stratigraphic Arbitration, and on trial is the question whether concrete, the unparalleled material, is indeed an admissible marker for defining the onset of the Anthropocene.
Critical materials, Deep time, Future, Infrastructure, Stratigraphy, Urbanism
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State of Nature—Dialogues
This three day conference invites its audience into both a consideration of the ecological and political urgencies at large in our global present, and an awareness of the strategies that are being crafted to address them.
Storytelling, Field Study, Conversation, Engagement, Urbanism, Ecology, Naturecultures, Species, Landscape, Infrastructure, Climate change
- contributionAlder Keleman, Feifei Zhou, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Jennifer Deger
Mapping Feral Flows
Feral Atlas stretches conventional notions of maps and mapping, revealing “feral” ecologies—the non-designed consequences of imperial and industrial infrastructure.
Mapping, Field Study, Species, Infrastructure, Scale
- contributionDerek Hoeferlin, Monique Verdin
Mapping (In-)visibilities and Entanglements
How might critical artistic mapping reveal the relations of power that dominate a region?
Conversation, Mapping, Architecture, Infrastructure, Representation
- contributionIsabelle Carbonell
The River in 24/7
What is the sound of the Lower Mississippi, a “superhighway” through which huge proportions of exported goods from the US are shipped every day?
Sound, Infrastructure, Water, Pollution, Human-environment relations, Ecology, Metabolism
- projectDerek Hoeferlin, Amber Ginsburg, Claire Pentecost, Kayla Anderson, Sara Black, Sarah Lewison, Beate Geissler, Oliver Sann, Michael Swierz, Monica Moses Haller, Jeremy Bolen, Brian Holmes, Brian Kirkbride, Margarida Mendes, John Kim, Tia-Simone Gardner, Andrea Carlson, Jenny Schmid, Marlena Novak, Jay Alan Yim, Joslyn Willauer, Isabelle Carbonell, Jennifer Colten, Abbéy Odunlami, Anna van Voorhis, Monique Verdin, Sarah Kanouse, Ryan Griffis, Joe Underhill, Corinne Teed, Heather Parrish
The Current: Mississippi. An Anthropocene River
The installation The Current presented field studies by artists, scholars, and activists who were involved in the AC project Mississippi. An Anthropocene River.
Archiving, Case Study, Communicating, Conversation, Field Study, Film, Mapping, Sensing, Storytelling, Sound, Water, Carbon, Care, Environmental Justice, Indigenous Rights, Extraction, Race, Infrastructure
- contributionAdam Crosson, Monique Verdin, Monica Moses Haller
Specifics of Vulnerability
What can be learned from attuning to the specifics of vulnerability when artificial realities are interrogated?
Conversation, Engagement, Reflection, Agency, Care, Ethics, Education, Infrastructure, Knowledge production, Local knowledge, Imaginary
- contributionBenjamin Steininger
Going Against the Flow
How consideration of the local effects of global dependencies, can help us to reckon with—and change—our role in sustaining often damaging entanglements of commodity flows.
Engagement, Intervention, Field Work, Teaching, Extraction, Commodities, Complexity, Slavery, Capitalism, Habits, History, Infrastructure
- 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
- contributionBenjamin Steininger
Louisiana: A Planetary Reactor
A River Journey reflection on power, the simultaneously planetary and molecular petrochemical industry, and the petrostate.
Field Work, Case Study, Engagement, Carbon, Degradation, Economy, Climate change, Commodities, Extraction, Energy, Infrastructure, Toxicity, Waste, Pollution
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Technosphere Magazine
Exploring the amorphous fabric of technologies, environments, and humans shaping Earth’s critical future.
Conversation, Engagement, Experiment, Film, Modeling, Reflection, Storytelling, Affect, Agency, Anthropos, Anthropology, Big data, Capitalism, Complexity, Critical materials, Economy, Extraction, Governance, Infrastructure, System, Human-environment relations
- contributionEmily Sekine
Rogue Elements of the Upper Mississippi
A series of flash nonfiction pieces chronicling some of the rogue elements encountered during the Anthropocene River Journey.
Field Work, Sensing, Reflection, Ecology, Infrastructure, Landscape, Human-environment relations, Water
- contributionNikos Katsikis
The Mississippi Basin: An Operational Landscape
Architect and urbanist Nikos Katsikis describes the assemblage of “operational landscapes” that are tied to the Mississippi basin.
Mapping, Case Study, Modeling, Agriculture, Commodities, Infrastructure, Transportation, Urbanism
- projectUche Okpara, Maria Isabel Pérez Ramos
Lake Chad: Sharing a Diminishing Resource?
Lake Chad is a central feature in the livelihoods and economies of several countries. Local and regional pressures have always been a challenge, but the new stress of diminishing rainfall is deepening this challenge.
Case Study, Water, Infrastructure
- contributionIan Gray
Outrunning the Anthropocene?
Ian Gray on the effects of coastal land loss for communities such as the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe.
Infrastructure, Resilience, Indigenous Rights, Local knowledge, Naturecultures
- projectBruce Braun, Roopali Phadke, Morgan Adamson
After the Industrial River: Essay Collection
An essay collection exploring the past and future infrastructural interventions into the Mississippi River.
Case Study, Reflection, Infrastructure, Model, Waste, Human-environment relations, History
- contributionSadie Luetmer
Seminar Film: Commodity Flows
This short film offers insights into the perspectives and methods of the seminar on “Commodity Flows,” which took place within the framework of the Anthropocene River Campus, 2019.
Film, Field Work, Capitalism, Infrastructure
- 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
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Phoenix, Louisiana, USA
Ecology, Embodiment, Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations, Infrastructure
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Engineering, Infrastructure
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Field Study, Architecture, Capitalism, Infrastructure, Landscape, Inequality
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Modeling, Mapping, Reflection, Experiment, Conversation, Adaptation, Aesthetics, Affect, Agency, Architecture, Care, Climate change, Contingency, Ecology, Future, Imaginary, Infrastructure, Landscape, Representation
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Engineering, Infrastructure, Scale, Sedimentation, Risk
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LaPlace, Louisiana, USA
Engineering, Infrastructure
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New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Sensing, Aesthetics, Architecture, Capitalism, Infrastructure, Landscape, Perception
- Field Notesimon.turner
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New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Infrastructure, Landscape, Life, Transport, Urban, Confluence
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Plaquemine Island, Louisiana, USA
Storytelling, Field Work, Complexity, Deep time, Infrastructure, Landscape, Metabolism, Oil, refinery, Catalysis
- 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
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Sauget, Illinois, USA
Affect, Care, Complexity, Infrastructure, Perception, Pollution, Risk
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Commodities, Ecology, Energy, Infrastructure, Sedimentation, Transport, Barge
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St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Commodities, Economy, Engineering, Infrastructure, Transport, Barge
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Bad Axe River, Wisconsin, USA
Field Study, Sound, Commodities, Infrastructure, Modernity
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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
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Winona County, Minnesota, USA
Field Study, Mapping, Field Work, Complexity, Contingency, Engineering, Flood, Infrastructure, Landscape, Network, Navigation
- projectMax Ritts
Katharine Ordway, Fall 2018
Katharine Ordway, Fall 2018 represents a stationary gesture amid the distanced movements comprising the Listening to the Mississippi project.
Sound, Field Work, Commodities, Transportation, Migration, Ecology, Infrastructure
- contributionPeter K. Haff
The Technosphere and the Mississippi River
How has the technosphere come to shape the Mississippi in its current formation? An excurse by geologist Peter K. Haff
Infrastructure, Technosphere, Network, Human-environment relations, Agency
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Field Station 3 | Territories, Watersheds, Infrastructures
Barge Opening
Infrastructure, Water, Engagement
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Sensing, Field Study, Infrastructure, Scale
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Technosphere, Berlin 2015–19
The exploratory research project Technosphere 2015–2019 investigated the origins and future itineraries of technological agency in the Anthropocene.
Experiment, Case Study, Reflection, Adaptation, Technoscience, Technosphere, Infrastructure, Capitalism, Human-environment relations, Inequality, Equality, Agency, Architecture, Big data, Data, Computation, Network, Urbanism, Transportation, Complexity, Cybernetics, Future
- contributionJohn Kim
Dam, Lock, Groyne
A short film focusing on the material and technical legacies of infrastructure in the headwaters region.
Film, Infrastructure
- contributionJesse Vogler
Transect Walk: Cahokia Mounds to Fairmont City
The entire history of American settlement experienced in one afternoon stroll.
Reflection, Water, Flood, Urbanism, Infrastructure, Transportation, Commodities, Anthropology, History
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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
- projectThomas Turnbull
Revisiting Regionalism in the Mississippi Basin
What if the kinetic energy of the river’s flow could be utilized for a regionalized power system? This research project turns towards the past and future of infrastructural regionalism.
Field Study, Energy, Infrastructure, Future, Renewable energy
- projectIan Gray
Infrastructural Nature
Green infrastructures intend to respond to the climatic and environmental challenges of the Anthropocene. But which landscapes are considered worthy of protection and on what grounds?
Field Study, Infrastructure, Resilience, 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
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Field Station 2 | Extractive Infrastructures and Imaginaries
The fourth day of the seminar travels from Wisconsin to Illinois to examine the interplay of displacement, immigration, and engineering in producing the landscapes of extractive agriculture celebrated in the racialized mythology of the American “heartland.”
Case Study, Storytelling, Energy, Commodities, Infrastructure, Mining, Imaginary, Carbon, Pollution, Indigenous Rights, 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
- projectBeate Geissler, Oliver Sann, Benjamin Steininger, Thomas Turnbull, Ibrahima Seck, Nikos Katsikis, Scott Eustis
Seminar: Commodity Flows
The relations between extraction, synthesis, and exploitation, and the effects of commodity dependencies across scales are explored in this seminar, by mapping commodity flows and energy cycles in the Mississippi basin.
Case Study, Teaching, Commodities, Capitalism, Energy, Agriculture, Transportation, History, Economy, Race, Slavery, Plantation, Metabolism, Infrastructure, Cotton, Tobacco, Sugar Cane, Oil
- projectKim Fortun, Scott Gabriel Knowles, Jason Ludwig, Tim Schütz
Anthropocene River School
The Anthropocene River School integrates the work of the Anthropocene River Field Stations and transforms the research into an ongoing, collaborative teaching enterprise.
Case Study, Teaching, Education, Ecology, Knowledge infrastructure, Water, Infrastructure
- projectMichael Allen, Jennifer Colten, Matthew Fluharty, Gavin Kroeber, Natalie Mueller, Lynn Peemoeller, Robert N. Spengler, William Taylor, Jesse Vogler
Midway Meeting St. Louis
At the “Midway Meeting” in St. Louis, project partners gathered to explore the temporal and topographical multiplicitices of the metropolitcan region of St. Louis.
Field Study, Reflection, Storytelling, Teaching, Deep time, History, Climate change, Ecology, Urbanism, Infrastructure, Engagement, Anthropology
- 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
- projectJohn Kim, Joe Underhill, Jamie Allen, Monica Moses Haller, Brian Holmes, Claire Pentecost, Shanai Matteson
Kick-off Anthropocene River Journey
The kick-off event draws together many of the essential themes and concerns of the overarching journey from the headwaters to New Orleans for a public gathering.
Field Study, Teaching, Water, Local knowledge, Infrastructure, Energy, History
- projectMarlena Novak, Jay Alan Yim, Joslyn Willauer
Timeslips
On the difference between a river and a boundary. Impressions from the levee and speculations on a view from afar.
Field Study, Geo-engineering, Infrastructure, Flood, Agriculture, Space travel
- projectDerek Hoeferlin
Territories—Watersheds—Infrastructures
A multi-scale map of the Mississippi watershed around St. Louis for the “river rats” of the Anthropocene.
Intervention, Mapping, Experiment, Case Study, Governance, Urbanism, Infrastructure, Agency, Scale, Speculative
- projectJennifer Colten, Matthew Fluharty, Derek Hoeferlin, Gavin Kroeber, James McAnally, Lynn Peemoeller, Treasure Shields Redmond, Jesse Vogler, Natalie Mueller
Field Station 3: Anthropocene Vernacular
In the St. Louis region, memories and meanings of millennia of settlement collide. Anthropocene Vernacular investigates how everyday culture has been cultivated in the midst of social, environmental, economic crises.
Field Study, Field Work, Storytelling, Water, Infrastructure, Urbanism, Deep time, Time, History, Anthropology, Local knowledge, Capitalism, Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations, Agriculture, Epistemology, Environmental Justice, 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
- projectMaria Paula Diogo, Liliana Coutinho, José Augusto Pádua
Seminar: Anthropogenic Landscapes of Inequality
Considering critiques of the Anthropocene’s ahistoricity, this seminar brings to the forefront of the debate the divide between those who explore and those who are explored.
Infrastructure, Commodities, Colonialism
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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
- contributionRafico Ruiz
Living Arctic Infrastructures
How do Arctic infrastructures “live”? And how does their extractive and appropriative logic do service to a rapidly changing world to come?
Field Study, Geo-engineering, Climate change, Infrastructure
- contributionAnna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Bergit Arends
Anthropocene Lecture - Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
How do we find new forms of coexistence in the landscapes of the Anthropocene?
Field Study, Mapping, Scale, Species, Infrastructure
- contributionAna Dana Beroš, Matija Kralj
Geotrauma
Borders not only define political law, they also constitute geographic realities built of infrastructure, forging politics into the landscape.
Film, Monitoring, Technosphere, Infrastructure
- contributionKim Rygiel
Citizenship and Technologies of Bordering
Political scientist Kim Rygiel investigates the difficult values that underlie the enforcement of who belongs in a political structure and who does not.
Case Study, Field Work, Monitoring, Technosphere, Governance, Infrastructure
- projectAnna Echterhölter, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Benjamin Bratton, Vera Tollmann, Gerald Nestler, Patricia Reed, Boaz Levin, Victoria Ivanova
Tokens
With the establishment of universal standards around 1948, the world is transformed into a technocratic space of transactions. Theoretical and artistic contributions contour the technical standards of an infinitely circulating present.
Conversation, Engagement, Storytelling, Intervention, Calculation, Commodities, Data, Economy, Infrastructure, Model, Network, Policy, Technosphere
- projectOrit Halpern, Anna Echterhölter, Sophia Roosth, Gerald Nestler, Johnny Golding, Alexander R. Galloway, Julian Oliver, Morehshin Allahyari, Sarah Sharma, Thomas Feuerstein, Marie-Luise Angerer, Elie Ayache, Felix Stalder, Ubermorgen
Switches
The unleashing of the technosphere is, above all, the result of activating and operating numerous tiny switches. With the unfolding of information theory, cybernetics, and the microscopic power of the point-contact transistor, the year 1948 represents the material and theoretical starting point for a universal language of 0s and 1s. Contributions from theory and art oscillate between diagnostic and speculative accounts of the bit’s role in our present.
Conversation, Engagement, Intervention, Storytelling, Teaching, Agency, Big data, Computation, Governance, Infrastructure, Knowledge transformation, Model, Network, Cybernetics, Technosphere, Technoscience, System
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Automated Environments
Today, growing concerns with climate change, energy scarcity, security, and economic collapse have turned the focus of urban planners, investors, and governments towards “infrastructure” as a site of value production and potential salvation from a world consistently defined by catastrophes and “crisis.”
Engagement, Conversation, Climate change, Smartness, Speculative, Infrastructure
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Anthropocene Campus Philadelphia 2017
A collaborative campus hosted by Drexel University, Philadelphia, from Oct 22–26, 2017.
Reflection, Film, Case Study, Field Study, Environmental Justice, Disaster, Epistemology, History, Human-environment relations, Technoscience, Infrastructure, Scenario, Climate change
- projectEtienne Benson, Johan Gärdebo, Sabine Höhler, Karena Kalmbach, Nina Wormbs
Environing Technology
Untangling processes of environmental change and extreme environments mediated by and through technology.
Teaching, Reflection, Human-environment relations, Biosphere, Technoscience, Infrastructure
- contributionOrit Halpern
Resilience as Infrastructure
In the current design of large-scale infrastructural projects, the planetary future hinges on a new norm: perpetual prototyping and demoing.
Case Study, Urbanism, Architecture, Infrastructure
- contributionDavor Vidas
When the Sea Begins to Dominate the Land
What happens to the baselines under the international law of the sea when coastlines are no longer stable?
Conversation, Ocean, Climate change, Infrastructure
- contributionAxel Braun
Towards an Understanding of Anthropocene Landscapes
Artist and photographer Axel Braun collects case studies on contentious infrastructure projects in order to trace humanity’s development as a geological force.
Case Study, Infrastructure, Landscape
- contributionGerda Heck
Worshipping Along the Routes of Migration
Gerda Heck demonstrates how Pentecostal churches have become powerful infrastructural actors that hold together mobile communities between Africa and Europe.
Case Study, Storytelling, Anthropology, Technosphere, Infrastructure, Knowledge infrastructure, Migration
- contributionBrian Larkin
Ambient Infrastructures. Generator Life in Nigeria
Petrol generators are an essential part of the energy supply in Nigeria. Brian Larkin explores the consequences of these generators and their parasitical relationship to more formal infrastructures through the presence of noise and pollution.
Case Study, Reflection, Technosphere, Infrastructure, Energy
- contributionLaleh Khalili
1333AD, Port of Aden, Yemen
Following the gravestone of a young Jewish woman used as the ballast for a ship, Laleh Khalili maps the infrastructure of imperialism and its relation to logistics to create an image of the technosphere as it expands geographically along its many ports.
Film, Technosphere, Infrastructure, Environmental Justice
- contributionKeller Easterling
Urban Porn
With new urban spatial products proliferating globally, subsequent forms of advertising these products have emerged to lure in global investment. But what are the selling points?
Film, Infrastructure, Urbanism
- contributionUnderworlds
Underworlds
MIT’s Sensible City Lab project Underworlds attempts to provide better sensory capacities for understanding bacterial and viral activities in sewer systems to better serve the cities that rely on them.
Conversation, Infrastructure
- contributionSammy Baloji, Filip De Boeck
The Tower. A Concrete Utopia
Urban planning and architecture carry a form of utopian optimism for a livable city with them. Yet, all too often infrastructural dreams turn into nightmares and the skyward ideals of a towered cityscape turns into the symbolism of degraded holes.
Conversation, Storytelling, Infrastructure, Urbanism, Architecture
- contributionDonald MacKenzie
The Microwave Tower of the NYSE and the Physicality of Finance
Looking at the cables and antennae that bring the networked data between different trading floors into correspondence, Donald MacKenzie depicts the time-critical infrastructure of automated finance.
Teaching, Infrastructure, Network, Data
- contributionBirgit Schneider
Telecommunications. A micro history
Media scholar Birgit Schneider takes us into the history of early submarine telegraphy cables, moving through their material construction and the subsequent organic and inorganic entanglements that connect them.
Communicating, Infrastructure, Ocean
- contributionLisa Parks
Infrastructure and Affect
Media scholar Lisa Parks describes her phenomenological method of understanding what is at stake when we speak about and imagine media infrastructures.
Sensing, Media, Infrastructure
- contributionAlexander Klose
Container Love, and Fear
How has the universal standardization of materials, sizes and processes enabled the technosphere to scale to its present scope?
Reflection, Engagement, Infrastructure
- contributionEva Castringius
29°57'50.26" N 90°44'01.94"
The mining compound at Deqingcun acts as a surrogate for the Chinese-Tibetan conflict. This exploited landscape provides the pattern for a hand-knotted rug by artist Eva Castringius.
Field Work, Mining, Infrastructure, Aesthetics
- contributionSvenja Schüffler
Installing Seismic Risk of Istanbul
An experiment on the possibility of falling slabs addresses the different levels of uncertainty involved in risk calculation.
Resilience, Infrastructure
- projectLawrence Abu Hamdan, Keith Breckenridge, Brian Holmes, Susan Schuppli, Melanie Gilligan
Truth Measures
Data, evidence, truth—these grades of the factual form an intricate reference system in which current social and juridical knowledge is established and maintained. How is factual knowledge constituted within and through the technosphere? The evening examines how the concept of legal truth and truth finding is bound to the technical production of certainty.
Conversation, Intervention, Reflection, Storytelling, Teaching, Adaptation, Complexity, Computation, Ethics, Governance, Knowledge infrastructure, Infrastructure, Representation, Model, Scale, Environmental Justice, Waste, Violence
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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
- contributionAmita Baviskar
Damming of the Narmada River in India
Amita Baviskar discusses the long and complex history of struggles surrounding the construction of a gravity dam on the Narmada River in India.
Field Study, Complexity, Infrastructure, Water
- contributionUche Okpara
Too Little Water: The Lake Chad Story
Lake Chad, in the arid and semi-arid Sahel corridors of west Central Africa, represents one of Africa’s greatest life forces. The lake’s water-based, life-supporting services support an integrated small-scale economy made up of agricultural livelihoods, and provide a lifeline to over 30 million people in four countries (Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria).
Case Study, Water, Infrastructure
