Method: Field Study
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KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, Stockholm 2012–
Understanding the changing human-Earth relation of the Anthropocene by combining research on technology, media, and political ecology with activism and front-line environmentalism.
Engagement, Field Study, Experiment, Teaching, Ecology, Policy, Human-environment relations, Media
- projectJahnavi Phalkey, Madhushree Kamak
Climate Through Your Eyes
In the fall of 2021, Science Gallery Bengaluru invited young adults to respond to prompts on the theme of climate change with creative responses.
Engagement, Field Study, Film, Sensing, Reflection, Storytelling, Flood, Water, Climate change, Disaster, Media
- projectLucio De Capitani, Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Cristina Baldacci, Shaul Bassi
Venice and the Anthropocene: An Ecocritical Guide
Published in 2022, this experimental guide to Venice forms a new, illuminating and disturbing mosaic of the water city and its Lagoon.
Field Study, Engagement, Reflection, Mapping, Water, Extinction, Flood, Climate change, Human-environment relations, History, Urbanism, Disaster, Future
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CARBON—Science Gallery Bengaluru
Science Gallery Bengaluru’s next exhibition-season will critically explore carbon in its diverse forms and tackle the challenges of the Anthropocene head-on.
Engagement, Conversation, Experiment, Intervention, Field Study, Carbon
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CARBON Summer School, Science Gallery Bengaluru
Science Gallery Bengaluru is hosting a residential summer school exploring the role of carbon in the Anthropocene.
Teaching, Field Study, Experiment, Intervention, Carbon, Urbanism
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Markers: Material Delineations of the Present
Eight sessions in three stages examine how a particular chemical or biological fingerprint becomes a demarcation for the new geological epoch of the Anthropocene.
Field Study, Reflection, Teaching, Conversation, Engagement
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Unearthing the Present Full Program
What is the new geological epoch made of? This event series connects the geological analysis of the present with a discussion of the changing scope for social and political agency.
Consensus Building, Conversation, Engagement, Field Study, Reflection, Experiment
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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
- 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
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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
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Many Waters: A Minnesota Biennial
A look into some of the imaginative and dedicated ways that artists and culture bearers from across the state of Minnesota are engaging with water.
Engagement, Conversation, Field Study, Indigenous Rights, Settler Colonialism, Water, Ecology, Wisdom, Human-environment relations
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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
- 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
- contributionKayla Anderson, Sara Black, Amber Ginsburg, Sarah Lewison, Claire Pentecost
Inheritance 2.0
A guided meditation that invites us to journey deep into the earth and back in time.
Field Study, Sensing
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Anthropocene Campus Venice 2021
Over the span of a week in Venice, Italy, this forum will take the water city as a point of departure to collectively reflect on geo-environmental politics, providing a space for co-learning, interdisciplinary collaborations, and comparative studies.
Field Work, Field Study, Conversation, Engagement, Sensing, Water, Human-environment relations, History, Adaptation, Climate change, Flood
- contributionMonica Moses Haller
Notes for Listening
Whatever moment the river might invite us to, it is a thick moment, a moment in motion. Audio piece and notes to the listener.
Field Study, Experiment, Water, Aesthetics, Sound
- 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
- contributionRavi Agarwal, Paulina Lopez, Huiying Ng, Michelle Lai
Social Witnessing
Two case studies focus on two very different landscapes, and attempt to account for the changing relationships that make them over time.
Case Study, Mapping, Film, Field Study, Ecology, Capitalism, Agriculture
- contributionFritz Habekuß
A River Indicts
If a corporation can have rights, then why not the Mississippi River?
Field Study, Reflection, Field Work, Engagement, Agency, Agriculture, Anthropos, Commodities, Environmental Justice, Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations, Toxicity
- contributionSarah Lewison
Measuring Loss
In response to the complicated entanglements of property claims in the Mississippi Delta, Sarah Lewison advocates for witnessing injustice as a way of preparing for repair.
Conversation, Engagement, Reflection, Field Study, Sensing, Storytelling, Teaching, Agency, Architecture, Commodities, Capitalism, Environmental Justice, Extraction, History, Indigenous Rights, Inequality, Race, Slavery
- 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
- Field Notesimon.turner
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London, United Kingdom
Storytelling, Field Study, Field Work, Experiment, Deep time, Erosion, Flood, History, Human-environment relations, Imaginary, Landscape, Sedimentation
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Museu da Luz, Luz Mourão, Portugal
Field Study, Environmental Justice, Migration, Agriculture
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Alqueva Dam, Alentejo, Portugal
Field Study, Mapping, Engineering, Human-environment relations
- contributionFrank Drewnick, Fiona Sprang, Lasse Moormann
The Anthropogenic Influence on Air Quality along the Mississippi River: Findings
Findings of a project considering anthropogenic impact upon air quality along the Mississippi River, exploring shifts in pollution concentration patterns.
Field Study, Monitoring, Case Study, Human-environment relations, Pollution, Toxicity
- Field NotealexanderWschindler
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Alqueva, Alentejo, Portugal
Field Study
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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National Museum of Natural History and Science, Lisbon, Portugal
Field Study, Teaching, Architecture, Biodiversity, Access
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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National Museum of Natural History and Science, Lisbon, Portugal
Field Study, Biodiversity, Ecology, Epistemology
- Field Noteryan.griffis
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Field Study, Architecture, Capitalism, Infrastructure, Landscape, Inequality
- Field Notemira.witte_admin
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Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, USA
Field Study, Deep time, Erosion, Landscape, Sedimentation, Sand, Mud, Clay
- Field Notes.kanouse
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Garyville, Louisiana, USA
Sensing, Field Study, Case Study, Capitalism, History, Life, Inequality, Risk, Slavery, Plantation, Oil, Embodied research, refinery, Whiteness
- Field Notes.kanouse
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Norco, Louisiana, USA
Field Study, Teaching, Monitoring
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA
Field Study, Mapping, Degradation, Erosion, History, Landscape, Life
- Field Notes.kanouse
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Field Study
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Uprisings, Futures, and Freedoms
Presentations and discussion with Kira Akerman, Shana M. griffin, Kristina Kay Robinson, Dread Scott and Denise Frazier.
Conversation, Engagement, Field Study
- Field Notebsteininger
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Burton Lane, St. James Parish, Louisiana, USA
Storytelling, Field Study, Anthropos, Engagement, Landscape, Inequality, Slavery, Oil, Law, undead
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Anthropocene River Screenings
Short films and discussion, featuring Anthropocene River Campus participants.
Field Study, Film
- Field Notebsteininger
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Donaldsonville, Louisiana, USA
Storytelling, Field Study, Agriculture, Biosphere, Capitalism, Commodities, Erosion, Landscape, Sedimentation, Industrialization, Geochemistry, River journey, Catalysis, Time
- Field Noteemily.sekine
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Hampton, Illinois, USA
Sensing, Field Study, Field Work, Film, Sound, Engagement, Biodiversity, Embodiment, Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations
- Field Noteunderhil
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Field Study, Intervention, Engagement, Carbon, Commodities, Complexity, Energy, River journey, Embodied research, refinery, Catalysis
- contributionHeather I. Sullivan
The Dark Green in the Anthropocene: Industrial agriculture and plant blindness along the Mississippi
Seen from above, the banks of the Mississippi appear to be flanked by rich expanses of plant life. Yet this verdant appearance is deceptive as this essay on the “dark green” explores.
Field Study, Agriculture, Human-environment relations, Species, Climate change
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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
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Storytelling, Field Study, Case Study, Field Work, Aesthetics, History, Life, Scale, Slavery, Plantation
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Storytelling, Field Study, Case Study, Field Work, Aesthetics, Commodities, History, Life, Slavery, Plantation
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Storytelling, Field Study, Field Work, Sound, Habits, Life, Local knowledge, Inequality, Slavery, Plantation, Fieldstation, Colonial, Colonialism
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Glen Allan, Mississippi, USA
Storytelling, Field Study, Case Study, Reflection, Field Work, Aesthetics, Habits, Life, Local knowledge, Race, Slavery, Plantation
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Storytelling, Field Study, History, Life, Plantation
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Storytelling, Field Study, Field Work, Degradation, History, Life, Plantation
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Storytelling, Field Study, Case Study, Field Work, History, Life, Plantation
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Storytelling, Field Study, Case Study, Reflection, Field Work, Aesthetics, Affect, Life
- contributionWilliam Taylor, Brandi Bethke, Sarah Trabert, Patrick Roberts, Nicole Boivin
Understanding Social and Ecological Impacts of the Horse in the Greater Mississippi
The initiators of the Horses, Donkeys, and the Anthropocene in the Greater Mississippi project provide an update on their findings.
Field Study, Mapping, Modeling, Ecology, Human-animal relations, Species, History
- Field Noteunderhil
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Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Field Study, Modeling, Geo-engineering, Imaginary, Landscape, Model, Scale, Overlook, Cement, Confluence
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Field Study, Field Work, Capitalism, Commodities, Engineering, Cement
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Vernon County, Wisconsin, USA
Field Study, Data, Local knowledge
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Moline, Illinois, USA
Field Study, Storytelling, Agriculture, Degradation, Landscape, Mechanosphere, Technosphere, Industrialization
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Moline, Illinois, USA
Field Study, Imaginary, Engagement, Agriculture
- Field Noteunderhil
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Bad Axe River, Wisconsin, USA
Field Study, Sound, Commodities, Infrastructure, Modernity
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Baraboo, Wisconsin, USA
Field Study, Intervention, Biodiversity, Contingency, Human-environment relations, Cement, Fieldstation
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Kickapoo Valley, Wisconsin, USA
Field Study, Biodiversity, Ecology, Colonialism
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Kickapoo Valley Reserve, Wisconsin, USA
Mapping, Storytelling, Field Study
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Genoa, Wisconsin, USA
Reflection, Teaching, Field Study, Carbon, Climate change, Energy, River journey, Industrialization
- Field Noteemily.sekine
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Winona County, Minnesota, USA
Field Study, Mapping, Field Work, Complexity, Contingency, Engineering, Flood, Infrastructure, Landscape, Network, Navigation
- contributionLynn Peemoeller, Gayle Fritz
The Interpretive Garden at the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site
A project output by Postnatural Landscapes Project with an animation.
Film, Field Study, Storytelling, Aesthetics, Agriculture, Anthropology, Deep time, Engagement, Food
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Bush Landing, Minnesota, USA
Field Study, Field Work, Agriculture, Temporary Continent
- projectLynn Peemoeller
Edible Matters along the Mississippi
How the “edible matter” of food as a leading agent in landscape change along the Mississippi River.
Field Study, Case Study, Sensing, Storytelling, Conversation, Engagement, Human-environment relations, Agriculture, Landscape
- Field Noteunderhil
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Sensing, Field Study, Modeling, Local knowledge, Indigenous Rights, Cosmologies, River journey, Dakota
- projectSarah Lewison, Claire Pentecost, Kayla Anderson, Sara Black, Amber Ginsburg
Inheritance
A multimedia artwork that uncovers the sublime beauty of fossilized forests.
Field Study, Sensing, Carbon, Deep time, Mining, Water
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Field Station 3 | Empire and Extraction
A bus looking at ways the river–as a material, administrative, and conceptual boundary–has troubled the horizon of care and imagination in the St. Louis region
Field Study, Reflection, Case Study, Radioactivity, Landscape
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In Situ Anthropocene
What can the Mississippi River Valley teach us about how to read the planetary shifts of the Anthropocene through its local waterways and landscapes?
Case Study, Conversation, Engagement, Experiment, Field Study, Field Work, Teaching, Intervention, Reflection, Storytelling, Sensing
- Field Noteunderhil
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Mississippi Headwaters, Minnesota, USA
Sensing, Field Study, Care, Engagement, Human-environment relations
- projectFrank Drewnick
Air-Quality Influences from the Anthropogenic Activities along the Mississippi River
A research project on the anthropogenic influence on pollution concentration and air quality of the Mississippi River region.
Field Study, Monitoring, Pollution, Aerocene, Human-environment relations, Air
- Field Noteunderhil
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Sensing, Field Study, Infrastructure, Scale
- projectNicole Boivin, Ricardo Fernandes, Gayle Fritz, Natalie Mueller, Patrick Roberts, Robert N. Spengler
The Early Rise of North America's Dominant Crop
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.
Field Study, Case Study, Agriculture, Ecology, Landscape, History
- Field Noteunderhil
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Field Study, Teaching, Education, Embodiment, Energy, Engagement
- contributionNatalie Mueller
Understanding the North American Lost Crops
Which kind of ancient crops were cultivated by prehistoric civilizations in eastern North America? Archaeologist Natalie Mueller pursues this question in her research on “lost crops”
Field Study, Agriculture, Deep time, History, Human-environment relations
- contributionLynn Peemoeller
Eating the Anthropocene
How can we encounter ourselves in the Anthropocene? A study in the deconstruction of cows and an introduction to “The Lost Crops of America” project.
Field Study, Extinction, Biodiversity, Agriculture, Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations, Socio-ecological design, History, Deep time, Metabolism, Landscape, Food
- contributionJennifer Colten, Jesse Vogler
Significant and Insignificant Mounds: Presentation
What can the mounds of North America—from temples to landfills—tell us about the history of settlement and the anthropogenic condition we inhabit today?
Reflection, Field Study, Deep time, History, Urbanism, Landscape, Epistemology
- Field Noteunderhil
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Sensing, Storytelling, Field Study, Teaching, Monitoring, Complexity, Cybernetics, Data, Education, Knowledge infrastructure, Knowledge production, Modernity
- projectSally Donovan
Suspended Solids
A chromatic record of the intimate relationship between the Mississippi River and its surrounding soils.
Field Study, Sensing, Monitoring, Aesthetics, Pollution, Toxicity, Sedimentation, Water
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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
- projectMonique Verdin
Project: Monique Verdin
Unearthing the pre-industrial waterways of the Mississippi River Delta.
Field Study, Local knowledge, Toxicity, Human-environment relations, Ethics
- 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
- projectTahani Nadim
Data Flows
In which ways do conventional data cultures and practices of archiving preclude, neglect, and overlook the interconnectedness between humans, time scales, and environments? An experiment in ethnographic story-writing.
Field Study, Sensing, Big data, Data, Computation, Knowledge infrastructure
- 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
- projectBenjamin Steininger
Baton Rouge: A Process Landscape at the Confluence of German-American Chemistry
The impact of fossil fuel emissions on climate change is well established. This research project sheds light on the lesser known origins and history of the petro-industry.
Field Study, History, Pollution, Energy, Toxicity, Commodities
- projectIsabelle Carbonell
The Panesthetic River
This project identifies rivers as crucial for investigating representations of the Anthropocene, via the medium of experimental documentary film.
Sensing, Storytelling, Field Study, Aesthetics, Representation, Landscape, Water, Film
- projectEmily Sekine
A Field Diary of the Upper Mississippi, 2019
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?
Field Study, Representation, Knowledge infrastructure, Epistemology, Naturecultures, Landscape, Human-environment relations, Water, Aesthetics
- projectJason Ludwig
From Plantations to Petrochemicals
What can the history of slavery tell us about the future of the Anthropocene?
Field Study, History, Commodities, Economy, Capitalism, Degradation, Agriculture, Energy, Pollution
- 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
- projectImani Jacqueline Brown
Before I Know You
A project on the ephemeral art of carving water.
Field Study, Storytelling, Ecology, History, Imaginary, Speculative, Water, Sedimentation, Energy, Pollution, Agriculture
- 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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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
- projectScott Gabriel Knowles, Kim Fortun, Jason Ludwig, Tim Schütz
St. Louis Anthropocene Field Campus
How has the Mississippi River region been documented, analyzed, and described thus far, and how have these practices set the stage for further research?
Field Study, Teaching, Education, Knowledge infrastructure
- projectScott Gabriel Knowles, Kim Fortun, Tim Schütz, Jason Ludwig
New Orleans Anthropocene Field Campus
The New Orleans Anthropocene Field Campus investigates site-specific processes of environmental change and injustice and develops tactics for interdisciplinary engagement with the Anthropocene.
Field Study, Teaching, Education, Knowledge infrastructure, Toxicity, Environmental Justice
- 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
- projectMaya Kóvskaya, Montana Torrey, Ellie Irons
Natchez: Etiologies of Anthropocenic Emergence
Natchez rests at the intersection of entangled violence of white supremacism and human exceptionalism as they play out on the landscape.
Storytelling, Field Study, History, Violence, Economy, Agriculture, Equality, Plantation, Slavery, Race, Environmental Justice
- projectJared Richardson, Abbéy Odunlami, Maya Kóvskaya, Tamara Becerra Valdez, Montana Torrey, Hannah Schaedler, Ellie Irons
Field Station 5: Place, Space & Relations of Belongings
The Upper Delta region is shaped by environmental forces of evolving multiracial identities and inherently global economic forces. Field Station 5 explores the spatial dynamics which formed the contemporary identity of this region.
Field Study, Field Work, Intervention, Storytelling, Commodities, Capitalism, Spatial, History, Economy, Embodiment, Knowledge infrastructure, Race, Violence, Plantation, Environmental Justice
- 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
- projectMatthew Fluharty, Jennifer Colten
Monsanto Town
Corporate personhood has rearticulated how agricultural giant Monsanto operates legally on the landscape.
Case Study, Field Study, Agriculture, Governance, Policy, Landscape, Capitalism, Biodiversity, History, Ethics
- 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, 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
- 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
- projectMonica Moses Haller, Sebastian Müllauer
Listening to the Mississippi
Using artistic underwater recordings, Listening to the Mississippi asks listeners to experience the river through sound.
Monitoring, Field Study, Experiment, Aesthetics, Water
- contributionRyan Griffis
Sacrifice Zones and Portable Climate
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.
Field Study, Mining, Landscape, Ecology
- projectNicholas Brown, Ryan Griffis, Sarah Kanouse
Over the Levee, Under the Plow
A traveling seminar on the relations between settler colonialism, racial capitalism, and environmental concerns in the Upper Midwest territory.
Case Study, Field Study, Storytelling, History, Agriculture, Violence, Capitalism, Landscape, Settler Colonialism, Race, Agency, Environmental Justice, Indigenous Rights
- 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
- 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
- contributionSever
Sever. Pre-emptive Strategy for an Open Arctic
In a speculative provocation, researchers Francesco Sebregondi, Alexey Platonov, Inna Pokazanyeva, and Ildar Iakubov ask whether a full-scale, decentralized model of territorial development could be our best option to reckon with an open Arctic Ocean.
Storytelling, Field Study, Technosphere, Climate change
- 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
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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
- contributionHannes Wiedemann
Grinders
Photographer Hannes Wiedemann depicts the bodyhacking subculture in California, capturing its adherents in their garages and makeshift laboratories.
Storytelling, Field Study, Reflection, Technosphere, Embodiment
- contributionJohan Gärdebo
Technosphere Verticality
Environmental historian Johan Gärdebo introduces us to the outermost layer of the technosphere, where satellites and their debris now orbit the planet.
Field Study, Technosphere, Space travel
- contributionJustin Westgate
Art, Air, and Ideas in the Anthropocene
What does it mean to become aerosolar? Field notes from Berlin
Experiment, Field Study, Aerocene, Aesthetics, Speculative
- contributionMaria Paula Diogo, Ana Simões
Shadowing the Anthropocene
Erasing the boundaries between the natural and the artificial world with the help of Peter Schlemihl.
Field Study, Storytelling, Anthropology
- contributionBrian Holmes
Driving the Golden Spike—The Aesthetics of Anthropocene Public Space
This micro-publication looks at the city of Chicago as a site of origin for materials, particles, and social relations that define the new geological epoch of the Anthropocene.
Field Study, Reflection, Deep time, Spatial, Aesthetics, Technosphere, Metabolism, Urban
- 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
- contributionTobias Hönig
The Lichtenberg Case: II
A visual essay on the site of the former VEB Elektrokohle and the Dong Xuan Center Lichtenberg
Field Study, Case Study, Migration, History, Architecture
- contributionJeremy Bolen
The Lichtenberg Case: I
A visual essay on the remains of VEB Elektrokohle after its demolition
Case Study, Field Study, Experiment, History
- contributionElena Bougleux, Tobias Hönig
The Terrain of the Former VEB Elektrokohle Lichtenberg
An introduction to the site and history of the Former VEB Elektrokohle Lichtenberg
Field Study, History, Migration
