Keyword: Local Knowledge
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Anthropocene Forum 2021
Held in June in Foz Côa, June 2021, with the purpose of discussing the need for an EU-inclusive agenda to address the challenges of a rapidly changing planet
Teaching, Consensus Building, Engagement, Intervention, Disaster, Sustainability, Knowledge production, Knowledge transformation, Local knowledge, Scale
- projectDavide Scarso
Observatory for the Anthropocene
An initiative that explores the entangled histories of a multiplicity of Anthropocene narratives.
Storytelling, Intervention, Engagement, Experiment, History, Scale, Topography, Economy, Policy, Local knowledge
- projectFernando Silva e Silva, Alyne Costa, Anelise De Carli, André Araujo
Anthropocene Campus Latin America
Taking place in 2024, Anthropocene Campus Latin America event will create an experiential space for collective change, learning, and creation.
Experiment, Storytelling, Engagement, Intervention, Network, Knowledge production, Knowledge infrastructure, Local knowledge
- projectFernando Silva e Silva, Alyne Costa, André Araujo, Anelise De Carli
Anthropocene Campus Brazil
An interdisciplinary program that took place in November 2022 and brought together scientists, humanities researchers, activists, and community leaders.
Film, Engagement, Conversation, Local knowledge, Knowledge production, Knowledge infrastructure, Indigenous Rights, Species
- projectFernando Silva e Silva, Alyne Costa, Anelise De Carli, André Araujo
Age of the Earth, Brazil & Latin America 2020–
Age of the Earth covers an array of initiatives which aim to think, feel, and act through the troubles of the Anthropocene, fostering South and Latin American perspectives.
Engagement, Communicating, Teaching, Sensing, Intervention, Cosmologies, Knowledge infrastructure, Knowledge production, Local knowledge, Network
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Critical Zones. In Search of a Common Ground
This travelling exhibition, co-produced by the ZKM, Karlsruhe and Goethe-Institut Mumbai, invites visitors to engage with the critical situation of our planet.
Engagement, Intervention, Experiment, Conversation, Climate change, Local knowledge, Species
- contributionFernando Silva e Silva, Alyne Costa, Jahnavi Phalkey, Lucio De Capitani, Emiliano Guaraldo, Sarah Lewison, Jacob Lindgren, Carlina Rossée, Jamie Allen, Jeremy Bolen, Brian Holmes
Collaborative Practice on a Changing Planet
In the fall of 2022, AC initiatives from around the world came together to envision a transformed future for the long-term collaboration of the network.
Communicating, Consensus Building, Conversation, Engagement, Experiment, Field Work, Mapping, Modeling, Intervention, Future, Consensus, Evolution, Extinction, Complexity, Topography, Knowledge infrastructure, Knowledge production, Local knowledge, Network
- contributionXavier Roqué
Small Agency in the Nuclear Anthropocene
Through the case of the nuclear accident at Palomares, Spain, historian of science Xavier Roqué shows the importance of local actants and scarce resources in registering and understanding Anthropocene-scale phenomena.
Case Study, Agency, Consensus, Disaster, Engagement, Local knowledge, Radioactivity
- contributionJoe Underhill
On Translation and Agency on an Anastomosed River
Joe Underhill reflects on the political utility of the language used in academia and the public sphere, and how to translate deeper understandings of the Anthropocene.
Storytelling, Communicating, Conversation, Field Work, Water, Climate change, Environmental Justice, Local knowledge, Settler Colonialism
- contributionAC Team
Going Part of the Way Together
A contribution collaboratively authored by members of the Anthropocene Curriculum team, that attempts to think dialogically “on curricula.”
Field Study, Storytelling, Mapping, Modeling, Engagement, Experiment, Conversation, Network, Complexity, Knowledge infrastructure, Knowledge production, Local knowledge, Scale, Consensus, Media
- 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
- 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
- contributionPatricia Reed, Spółdzielnia Krzak / Krzak Collective, Gilly Karjevsky, Rosario Talevi, Monique Verdin, Nikiwe Solomon, Fernando Silva e Silva, Ela Spalding, Raphaël Grisey, Bouba Touré, Simon Turner
Coordinating Practice
The Anthropocene has a coordination problem. This discussion highlights the many challenges of coordinating projects at different scales, both spatially and temporally.
Conversation, Reflection, Field Work, Local knowledge
- contributionBernd M. Scherer, Jeremias Herberg, John Kim, Adania Shibli
An Anthropocene in Two Parts
The most challenging aspects of doing Anthropocene research require learning how local realities may inform broader global issues.
Conversation, Engagement, Settler Colonialism, Local knowledge, Capitalism, Race, Ecology
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The Shape of a Practice: Online Project Environment
A dynamic virtual landscape served as a venue for The Shape of a Practice.
Case Study, Conversation, Engagement, Topology, Agency, Knowledge production, Knowledge transformation, Local knowledge, Platform
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The Shape of a Practice 2020
The Shape of a Practice constituted an experiment in negotiating the particularities of context, purpose, and method.
Engagement, Experiment, Case Study, Conversation, Sensing, Reflection, Agency, Consensus, Knowledge infrastructure, Knowledge transformation, Knowledge production, Local knowledge, Topology
- contributionScott Gabriel Knowles, Fallon Samuels Aidoo, Christopher Oliver, Myung Ae Choi
Risk & Equity in the Louisiana Anthropocene
On the different manifestations and impacts of the Louisiana Anthropocene, which have been lent somber new resonance in 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Conversation, Engagement, Field Work, Film, Reflection, Sensing, Affect, Agency, Care, Climate change, Carbon, Environmental Justice, Disaster, Extraction, Pollution, Race, Local knowledge
- 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
- 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
- contributionTreasure Shields Redmond
Acknowledging Indigenous Land and a Performance of "Idle No More"
A bonus episode on centering Indigenous presence on the Mississippi Landscape.
Engagement, Storytelling, Local knowledge, Agency, Representation, Naturecultures
- contributionTreasure Shields Redmond
Praying for the Water with Saundi McClain-Kloeckner
In this episode, Treasure Shields Redmond and Saundi McClain-Kloeckner discuss Indigenous presence, water protection and human-environment relations along the Mississippi.
Conversation, History, Local knowledge
- contributionAbbéy Odunlami, Jared Richardson
#6 Intro to Season 2: Migration - Perspectives on Discplacement in the Anthropocene
Introduction to season 2 of the podcast. The field station finds itself stationed in Berlin, Germany where Abbéy Odunlami sits down with various interlocutors to understand what migration means to this section of the global north.
Conversation, Engagement, Reflection, Storytelling, Case Study, Human-environment relations, Urbanism, Local knowledge, Spatial, Climate change, Race, Education
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Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Field Work, Aesthetics, Agency, Architecture, Care, Habits, Imaginary, Life, Local knowledge
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Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Storytelling, Field Study, Field Work, Sound, Habits, Life, Local knowledge, Inequality, Slavery, Plantation, Fieldstation, Colonial, Colonialism
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Glen Allan, Mississippi, USA
Storytelling, Field Study, Case Study, Reflection, Field Work, Aesthetics, Habits, Life, Local knowledge, Race, Slavery, Plantation
- contributionAbbéy Odunlami, Jared Richardson
#5 Cooperation Jackson & the struggle for the waterways (live in Jackson, MS)
Cooperation Jackson is an emerging vehicle for sustainable community development, economic democracy, and community ownership. Listen to episode 5 now!
Conversation, Engagement, Reflection, Storytelling, Case Study, Equality, Human-environment relations, Urbanism, Race, Local knowledge, Spatial, Climate change
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St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Aesthetics, Biodiversity, Local knowledge
- contributionAbbéy Odunlami, Jared Richardson
#4 Black Ecologies: Historicization & Futures
On the spatial politics of plantation economies and the connection between faith and environmentalism. Episode 4 available now!
Conversation, Reflection, Engagement, Storytelling, Case Study, Equality, Environmental Justice, Urbanism, Race, Local knowledge
- contributionAbbéy Odunlami, Jared Richardson
#2 Troubling Ecology: Black Feminist Interventions in Environmentalism
Talk with Dr. Chelsea Frazier about the importance of Black feminism’s political and artistic engagements with environmentalism. Episode 2 available now!
Conversation, Engagement, Reflection, Storytelling, Sound, Case Study, Equality, Environmental Justice, Urbanism, Race, Local knowledge, Spatial
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Vernon County, Wisconsin, USA
Field Study, Data, Local knowledge
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Kickapoo Valley Reserve, Wisconsin, USA
Field Work, Mapping, Storytelling, Anthropology, Glaciation, Indigenous Rights, History, Naturecultures, Landscape, Local knowledge, Spatial, Memory, Ritual
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Knowledge production, Local knowledge, Fieldstation
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Field Work, Life, Local knowledge, Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Rights, License, Law, Transport, Mobility
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Field Station 5 | Memphis: The River City
Episode 5 of the podcast series on the Mississippi Delta
Sound, Conversation, Storytelling, Case Study, Water, Spatial, Urbanism, Equality, Economy, Capitalism, Local knowledge, Environmental Justice, Race
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Field Station 5 | Black Ecologies: historicization & futures
Episode 4 of the podcast series on the Mississippi Delta
Sound, Conversation, Storytelling, Case Study, Water, Spatial, Urbanism, Equality, Economy, Capitalism, Local knowledge, Environmental Justice, Race
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Field Station 5 | Perils of Privatization in NOLA
Episode 3 of the podcast series on the Mississippi Delta
Sound, Conversation, Storytelling, Case Study, Water, Spatial, Urbanism, Equality, Economy, Capitalism, Local knowledge, Environmental Justice, Race
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Field Station 5 | Troubling Ecology: Black Feminist Interventions in Environmentalism
Episode 2 of the podcast series on the Mississippi Delta
Sound, Conversation, Storytelling, Case Study, Spatial, Urbanism, Equality, Capitalism, Local knowledge, Environmental Justice, Race, Care
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Sensing, Field Study, Modeling, Local knowledge, Indigenous Rights, Cosmologies, River journey, Dakota
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Field Station 3 | American Bottom Gazette Issue 2 Launch + Anthropocene Vernacular reception
The launch party of The American Bottom Gazette Issue 2.
Storytelling, Engagement, Local knowledge
- contributionJennifer Colten, Jesse Vogler
Significant and Insignificant Mounds: an Essay
Deciphering the cosmology of artificial hills—from the Cahokia Mounds to the slag heaps of today.
Storytelling, Landscape, Deep time, History, Local knowledge, Anthropology, Colonialism
- contributionKim Fortun
Questioning Quotidian Anthropocenes
The Open Seminar will direct collaborative attention to the many scales and types of systems that interlace and synergize to produce anthropocenics on the ground in particular locales and vernanculars.
Teaching, Experiment, Knowledge production, Knowledge infrastructure, Local knowledge
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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
Collaborative Map
Geospatial connections between the themes and research being collected during the project are displayed on an interactive, collaborative map.
Mapping, Storytelling, Consensus, Data, Engagement, Spatial, Local knowledge, Platform, Knowledge infrastructure, Scale
- projectMonique Verdin
Project: Monique Verdin
Unearthing the pre-industrial waterways of the Mississippi River Delta.
Field Study, Local knowledge, Toxicity, Human-environment relations, Ethics
- projectAndrea Carlson
Paddle Waves and Sparkling Light
Waves form the focus of Andrea Carlson’s Traveler Project, which brings together the world of fluid dynamics with the Ojibwe language to create new artworks.
Field Study, Water, Aesthetics, Local knowledge
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Field Station 2 | Toward Ecological Sovereignty
The seminar concludes in Saukenuk. The environmental transformations wrought by settlement have not exterminated Indigenous political and ecological practices, which have persisted and adapted to what Kyle Powys White calls the “post-apocalyptic conditions of the present.”
Case Study, Reflection, Storytelling, History, Local knowledge, Agriculture, Agency, Ecology, Human-environment relations, Inequality, Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Rights, Environmental Justice
- projectMorgan Adamson, Ravi Agarwal, Bruce Braun, Shana M. griffin, Sarah Lewison, Pointe-Au-Chien Indian Tribe, Grace Treffinger, Geneva Lebouf
Seminar: Claims/Property
This seminar engages the complicated entanglements of property claims that cut across the social, racial, and ecological landscapes of the Mississippi Delta, as they pertain to the Anthropocene.
Case Study, Teaching, Agency, History, Local knowledge, Agriculture, Commodities, Capitalism, Violence, Race, Settler Colonialism, Environmental Justice
- 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
- projectAbbéy Odunlami, Jared Richardson
Broadcasting Live from… Field Station 5
A narrative-based podcast that discusses how geography determines many people’s relationship to resources, land, and wellbeing.
Storytelling, Sound, Case Study, Water, Spatial, Urbanism, Equality, Economy, Capitalism, Local knowledge, Environmental Justice, Race
- 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
- projectGavin Kroeber
Domesticating the Anthropocene
The art initiative Laboratory for a Radical Suburbia explores human connections to both land and to the environmental impacts of capitalist cycles of extraction, production, and consumption on that land.
Case Study, Spatial, Urbanism, Capitalism, Water, Landscape, Imaginary, Scenario, Local knowledge, Knowledge infrastructure
- projectTreasure Shields Redmond
River Memory
A multigenerational oral history project on the fabric of race, class, labor and the river in St. Louis.
Storytelling, History, Local knowledge, Embodiment, Equality, Participatory governance
- 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
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Field Station 2 | Unsettling Anthropocene Landscapes
Opening day of the traveling seminar Over the Levee, Under the Plow, which situates the escalating environmental crisis of the Anthropocene Midwest within settler colonial histories and narratives.
Case Study, Reflection, Storytelling, History, Local knowledge, Landscape, Violence, Agriculture, Agency, Climate change, Care, Knowledge infrastructure, Indigenous Rights, Settler Colonialism
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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
- projectRyan Griffis, Heather Parrish, Sam Muñoz, Corinne Teed, Sarah Kanouse, Nicholas Brown, Rozalinda Borcilă
Over the Levee, Under the Plow: An experiential curriculum
What does it mean to become a responsible guest? This set of field guides and accompanying exercises offer an adaptable tool for the uninvited traveler.
Case Study, Storytelling, Engagement, Knowledge production, Local knowledge
- projectNicholas Brown, Ryan Griffis, Sarah Kanouse
Field Station 2: Anthropocene Drift
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.
Field Study, Field Work, Agriculture, Landscape, Water, Capitalism, Commodities, Anthropology, Local knowledge, Ecology, History, Violence, Sustainability, Topography, Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Rights, Environmental Justice
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Field Stations
Five Field Stations along the Mississippi River explore novel ways of reading the dynamic Mississippi landscape.
Field Study, Field Work, Water, Ecology, Local knowledge
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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
- contributionAnnapurna Mamidipudi
A Recipe for Crafting Color: The Revival of Natural Dyeing in South India
How did nineteenth century recipes describing practices of natural dyeing in India come to constitute technologies for green production for the future?
Field Work, Experiment, Local knowledge, Aesthetics, Future, Commodities
- contributionNavjot Altaf Mohamedi
Bastar Diary
A relfection on the knowledge of interconnectedness of the indigenous Muria Gond community.
Reflection, Mining, Local knowledge, Naturecultures, Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations, Indigenous Rights
- contributionDaniel Falb
Isle of Man
A poetic reflection on co-evolutions towards the Holocene Museum.
Reflection, Aesthetics, Epistemology, Knowledge transformation, Local knowledge
- contributionFrancois Bucher
On the Use of the Word Code by the Kogi Translator
For the Kogi in northern Colombia, talk of the Anthropocene and the technosphere it not news. For centuries, they have been living in a hyperdimensional ecology that needs constant maintenance to avoid apocalypse for the entire planet.
Naturecultures, Epistemology, Local knowledge, Ritual
- projectMark Lawrence, Bronislaw Szerszynski, Janot Mendler de Suarez, Thilo Wiertz
Seminar: Disciplinarities
The blurring of distinctions between Earth processes and human history requires us to be “transdisciplinary” and sometimes even “undisciplinary” – in order to combine the knowledge base and research capacities of a wide variety of stakeholders.
Teaching, Experiment, Epistemology, Knowledge production, Knowledge infrastructure, Knowledge transformation, Local knowledge, Disciplinarity
