On the shared experiences of those who live along the Mississippi in New Orleans and the Yamuna in Delhi, reciprocal relationships with nature, and the importance of listening in the Anthropocene.

Exploring the reciprocal relationship between people, rivers, and the landscape, focusing on the unique setting of the Driftless Area of the Upper Mississippi region.

Ian Gray on the effects of coastal land loss for communities such as the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe.

A bonus episode on centering Indigenous presence on the Mississippi Landscape.

How can we develop landscapes in response to the Anthropocene? A reflection on the defunct Upper Harbor Terminal complex.

What are the ideological underpinnings of common notions of “restoration”? Patrick Nunally explores this question on the site of Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Lecture series that took place throughout 2019 covering various Anthropocene-related topics that are key to the region of India and beyond.

Ravi Agarwal and Ashok Sukumaran wrangle with how we might better understand the complexities of anthropogenic processes.

Ravi Agarwal brings his interdisciplinary lens to the topics explored at the State of Nature in India 2019 conference.

Sarah Lewison presents her work in the confluence area where the Mississippi, Missouri and Illinois River converge.

How do narratives, relationships and practices change when we talk about anthropocene rivers?

What modes of collecting, representing, and knowing are appropriate to meet the conceptual and practical challenges of the Anthropocene? Which narrative forms and styles can help us to document states of flux and transformation, across multiple scales of space and time?

Award-winning journalist Mukul Sharma underlines the relationship between caste and nature in the context of Indian environmental politics.

Event in Mumbai, India, addressing how might we examine notions of power and ethics in order to address the current ecological crisis.

With a regional focus on India, this initiative seeks to dissolve the boundaries between knowledge practices and create cross-disciplinary exchange.

Artist, environmentalist and curator Ravi Agarwal provides a background and introduction to the State of Nature India in 2018.

This lecture presents a framework for centering the natural world in the writing of history, arguing that without nature historians cannot understand time.

Conceptual, material, and immaterial cultural forms through which environmental knowledge has been recognized, organized, activated, and transmitted in Japan.

RIHN 13th International Symposium, December 13–14, 2018, Kyoto – Organized by The Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN)

Music creation by Xu Yi, for the Cucurbital Orchestra, video and electronic device spatialized in multi-tracks.

How can we move out of our habitual mode of engaging with space? A field guide for taking a walk through out senses.

A collage of thoughts about co-evolutionary perspectives on the technosphere.

A relfection on the knowledge of interconnectedness of the indigenous Muria Gond community.

From being to becoming: a historical perspective on the dynamics of change.

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.

From mega-fauna extinction to atombic bomb: mapping the history of anthropogenic transformations of Earth.

Measuring and calculating the twenty-first century. A collection of incidents.

How can we transcend the nature‒culture dichotomy? Making the case for a critical re-evaluation of romantic theory and practice.

How can we think beyond categorical distinctions between humans, culture, technology, and nature?

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

An exercise in entanglement of Caroline Picard

The Mobile Hedges (2011) was a public space urban art intervention, designed to create temporary spaces for people to socialize on the famous city square designed by Oscar Niemeyer.

How did the former Freshkills landfill in New York City, USA, transform into the wild, yet highly engineered landscape of the landfill mounds?

A case study on field recordings of the “absence” of a large section of trees that had recently been removed from the site and installed in the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, as part of the gallery’s current exhibition

The overexploitation of natural capital will lead to profound and unanticipated social and environmental changes, if we do not learn to “value nature”. But is the equivalence of natural and financial capital adequate? How can we identify the threshold between what can and cannot be  subjected to market rules?

The hedge as an urban barriers

2008 is the year the Rights of Nature were ratified in the Ecuadorian Constitution. In a seminar room at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, a group debates about resource extraction, activism, and the role of indigenous systems of knowledge in the Anthropocene.

A reflection on the Anthropocene thesis as a concept for curatorial ways to address nature–culture relations.

In his essay on the Anthropocene, Peter Sloterdijk contemplated whether we should be surprised by the ease with which this relatively recent discourse on the geological impact of humanity—which he provocatively called a “synthetic-semantic virus”—has “escaped” beyond the doors of geophysical scholarship into the realm of cultural production.

Why do botanical collections and collecting spaces come from, and how have they played (an ever changing) part in shaping the world and our shifting understandings of it?

Contributions and exercises that approach the motif of the fence as the calligraphy of humanity.