Method: Mapping
- contributionSimon Turner, Michelle Murphy, Lesley J. F. Green
Environmental Markers to Chemical Violence
How do we connect pollutant markers demarcating the Anthropocene with the exploitative and unequal anthropogenic-economic-industrial systems that created them?
Mapping, Consensus Building, Experiment, Engagement, Pollution, Toxicity, Violence, Indigenous Rights, Environmental Justice, Settler Colonialism
- 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
- contributionMatthew C. Wilson
A Drift
Matthew C. Wilson traverses ancient prehistory to speculative futures, meditating on the chancy throughlines that make up the world as we know it.
Storytelling, Reflection, Engagement, Mapping, Evolution, History, Future, Speculative, Life, 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
- event
“Anthroposcenes:” Historicizing Colonial Landscapes and Seascapes
Talk by environmental historian Gregory T. Cushman—and roundtable discussion with Chamoru poet and scholar Craig Santos Perez and multispecies scholar Maya Kóvskaya.
Conversation, Engagement, Intervention, Mapping, Species, Human-animal relations, Ecology, Settler Colonialism, Water, Capitalism, Landscape
- event
Collaborative Practice on a Changing Planet
AC initiatives from around the world come together to envision a transformed future for the long-term collaborations of the network.
Conversation, Engagement, Experiment, Mapping, Network, Scale, Consensus
- contributionPietro Daniel Omodeo, Sebastiano Trevisani
The Critical Environment of the Venice Lagoon
Venice’s critical environment is a paradigmatic case for comprehending socio-environmental history in dialogue with the Earth sciences.
Case Study, Mapping, Economy, Complexity, Flood, Governance, Human-environment relations, Resilience, Urbanism, Water
- contributionEva Horn
The Case of Air
Literary scholar Eva Horn unpacks air as an environing medium that has always entangled human life and the environment in very specific ways.
Case Study, Mapping, Climate change, Disciplinarity, Human-environment relations, Pollution, Scale
- contributionSebastián Ureta
Tailings and the Onset of a Chilean Anthropocene
Sebastián Ureta gives a thick description of Anthropocene landscapes where vast, stratified dumps of chemical residues that largely outlive their creators.
Mapping, Critical materials, Deep time, Degradation, Disaster, Environmental Justice, Mining, Policy, Waste
- contributionShahana Rajani and Zahra Malkani
Notes Toward a Karachi Ecopedagogy
What does it mean to sense, to know, to witness? Artists Shahana Rajani and Zahra Malkani propose an “ecopedagogy” that awakens us to a network of relationality.
Sensing, Field Work, Mapping, Urbanism, Water, Ecology
- contributionJohan Gärdebo
If a tree falls, and no data is around…
Environmental historian Johan Gärdebo explores the complex history of the relationship between data and the environment.
Sensing, Mapping, History, Data, Knowledge infrastructure
- contributionSimon Turner
Shifting Sands or Set in Stone?
Simon Turner reflects on the International Chronostratigraphic Chart as both a continual work in progress and a product of centuries of scientific consensus-building.
Consensus Building, Engagement, Field Work, Mapping, Big data, Holocene, Calculation, Consensus, Landscape, History
- contributionShannon Mattern
Archival Phase Shifts
What might an “Anthropocene archive” look like? Media anthropologist Shannon Mattern proposes that it should embrace its ever evolving content, structure and context.
Archiving, Mapping, Water, Climate change, Time, Flood, Landscape, Knowledge infrastructure, Toxicity, Capitalism
- 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
- 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
- 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
- projectTahani Nadim, Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski
Seminar: Archiving
How can we move from the archive (as an institution) to archiving as a practice that sustains many lives (like oral history, dancing, singing, cooking)?
Archiving, Case Study, Mapping, Conversation, Reflection
- 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
- 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
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
#undefined
Luz Mourão, Portugal
Storytelling, Mapping, Architecture, Human-environment relations, Imaginary, Model, Participatory governance
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
#undefined
Alqueva Dam, Alentejo, Portugal
Field Study, Mapping, Engineering, Human-environment relations
- contributionTemporary continent., Andrew Yang
“What on Earth”: Confluences in the planetary metabolism
Field Station 4 contributor Andrew Yang elucidates on the reasons for taking its title, “Confluence Ecologies,” as a lens through which to apprehend the Anthropocene
Field Work, Storytelling, Mapping, Commodities, Extraction, History, Capitalism, Scale
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
#undefined
Mapping, Sensing, Data, Environmental Justice, Air
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
#undefined
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Storytelling, Mapping, Teaching, Slavery, naming
- Field Noteryan.griffis
#undefined
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Modeling, Mapping, Reflection, Experiment, Conversation, Adaptation, Aesthetics, Affect, Agency, Architecture, Care, Climate change, Contingency, Ecology, Future, Imaginary, Infrastructure, Landscape, Representation
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
#undefined
Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA
Field Study, Mapping, Degradation, Erosion, History, Landscape, Life
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
#undefined
Mapping, Monitoring, Environmental Justice, Data, Air
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
#undefined
Mapping, Monitoring, Data, Knowledge infrastructure, Pollution, Air, Geochemistry
- 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 NoteChristoph Rosol
#undefined
Mapping, Sensing, Data, Pollution, Air, Digital, Transport
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
#undefined
Mapping, Pollution, Urbanism, Air, Digital, Substances
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
#undefined
Mapping, Sensing, Big data, Environmental Justice, Media, Pollution, Air, Geochemistry
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
#undefined
Sauget, Illinois, USA
Mapping, Sound, Engagement, Engineering, History, Monsanto
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
#undefined
Hampton, Illinois, USA
Mapping, Affect, Complexity, Energy, Risk, Lightning
- contributionSteve Gough, Anna Durrett
Little River Research & Design
The models produced by Little River Research & Design convey an acutely material consciousness of the relentless processes of change that shape the Mississippi River.
Modeling, Mapping, Engagement, Model, Education, Sedimentation, Water
- Field Notes.kanouse
#undefined
Mapping, Intervention, Conversation, Settler Colonialism
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
#undefined
Mapping, Monitoring, Sensing, Data, Knowledge infrastructure, Air, Geochemistry
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
#undefined
Kickapoo Valley Reserve, Wisconsin, USA
Mapping, Storytelling, Field Study
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
#undefined
Kickapoo Valley Reserve, Wisconsin, USA
Field Work, Mapping, Storytelling, Anthropology, Glaciation, Indigenous Rights, History, Naturecultures, Landscape, Local knowledge, Spatial, Memory, Ritual
- Field Noteemily.sekine
#undefined
Winona County, Minnesota, USA
Field Study, Mapping, Field Work, Complexity, Contingency, Engineering, Flood, Infrastructure, Landscape, Network, Navigation
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
#undefined
Mapping, Monitoring, Sensing, Data, Knowledge infrastructure, Pollution, Geochemistry, Industrialization
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
#undefined
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Sensing, Teaching, Mapping, Aesthetics, Education, Soundwalk, Transport, Embodied research
- contributionSteffen Beirle, Christian Borger, Thomas Wagner
Mississippi Region Nitrogen Dioxide Distribution Map
An ongoing series of satellite maps produced by the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, charting nitrogen distribution in the Mississippi region.
Field Work, Mapping, Monitoring, Pollution, Energy, Human-environment relations
- projectSadie Luetmer
Unlearning a territory
Sadie Luetmer’s project will entail writing about the headwaters region in Minnesota, Anishinaabe territory, reflecting upon the maps and relations she once learned and is now unlearning and learning again.
Reflection, Field Work, Mapping, Topography, Agency, Education, Equality, Ecology
- projectSteffen Beirle, Thomas Wagner, Christian Borger
Mapping the Distribution of Nitrogen Dioxide in the Mississippi Region
What do the spatial patterns of the distribution of nitrogen dioxide reveal about human-environment relations? And how do pollution levels along the Mississippi compare globally?
Field Work, Mapping, Monitoring, Pollution, Energy, Air
- contributionBrian Holmes
The Watershed in Your Head
Moving from political economy to political ecology: an invitation to get involved.
Mapping, Monitoring, Storytelling, Engagement, Agency, Water, Education, Ecology, Pollution, Participatory governance, Colonialism
- Field Noteunderhil
#undefined
Lake Itasca, Minnesota, USA
Mapping, Aesthetics, Imaginary, Landscape
- 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
- 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
- projectKayla Anderson, Sara Black, Jeremy Bolen, Beate Geissler, Amber Ginsburg, Brian Holmes, Jenny Kendler, Brian Kirkbride, Sarah Lewison, Marlena Novak, Claire Pentecost, Oliver Sann, Michael Swierz, Andrew Yang, Jay Alan Yim
Field Station 4: Confluence Ecologies
This Field Station sets out to engage with the ecologic-economic-technological infrastructures between Kentucky and Illinois and will bring a regionally focused lens to the globally entangled Anthropocene condition.
Field Work, Mapping, Engineering, Water, Habits, Capitalism, Ecology, Socio-ecological design, Human-animal relations, Energy, Radioactivity, Waste, Geo-engineering, Industrialization
- projectAnthropocene Working Group
AWG Mississippi Essays
Essays from members of the AWG and other researchers discussing some of the crucial aspects that make the Mississippi River an icon of global Anthropocene transformations.
Monitoring, Case Study, Field Work, Experiment, Mapping, Modeling, Biosphere, Carbon, Ecology, Water, Holocene, Stratigraphy
- project
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
- contributionManfred Laubichler
The Growth and Differentiation of Metabolism: Extended Evolutionary Dynamics in the Technosphere
By going through the transitions in cell evolution and energy regimes, evolutionary biologist Manfred Laubichler explains the dynamics behind the formation of the metabolic activity and complexity of our planet.
Engagement, Mapping, Teaching, Evolution, Energy, History
- contributionNikos Katsikis
Operational Landscapes and the Planetary Thünen Town
Urbanization organizes the planetary terrain—not just through cities and agglomeration zones, but also through the totality of diffused production areas and global commodity chains.
Mapping, Urbanism, Capitalism, Commodities
- contributionDesign Earth
Georama of Trash
How can design reclaim the forms, technologies, economies and logistics of waste streams in the production of urbanism?
Mapping, Architecture, Waste, Economy, Urbanism
- projectKatrin Klingan, Christoph Rosol, Bernd M. Scherer, Peter K. Haff, Jürgen Renn, Bronislaw Szerszynski, John Tresch, Luciana Parisi, Louis Chude-Sokei, Esther Leslie, Kathryn Yusoff, Rosi Braidotti, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Lydia H. Liu, Alexander Ilichevsky
Technosphäre Publication
The German publication Technosphäre collects contributions thinking through the conditions and evolution of this new Earth system player. Included here are two selections from the book in English translation: the editorial introduction and a conversation between Peter K. Haff and Jürgen Renn.
Conversation, Mapping, Storytelling, Communicating, Adaptation, Calculation, Complexity, Computation, Critical materials, Deep time, Technosphere, Future, Disciplinarity, Knowledge infrastructure
- contributionJamie Allen
Sitting On Top of the World: Meridional Media, Arctic Condescension, and Northern Techniques
Jamie Allen’s writings map the relations, tensions, and collusions between material and knowledge infrastructures and actual and modelled ecologies, and Merle Ibach prepares images to accompany these.
Mapping, Storytelling, Technosphere, Critical materials, Knowledge infrastructure
- contributionKsenia Tatarchenko
The Lena Is Worthy of Baikal: Defining Remoteness Across the North and the East
Inspired by the Lena River Delta in northern Siberia, Ksenia Tatarchenko reflects on filmic dramatizations of far-off and inaccessible places, capturing the role Soviet modernity had in establishing interconnection in isolation.
Mapping, Reflection, Technosphere, Anthropology
- contributionGiulia Rispoli, Jacques Grinevald
Vladimir Vernadsky and the Co-evolution of the Biosphere, the Noosphere, and the Technosphere
How does the current notion of “spheres” infiltrate thinking about the bio-techno-sphere, which today seems the best descriptive model for our own habitat?
Case Study, Reflection, Mapping, Biosphere, Technosphere, History, Cosmologies, System
- contributionPietro Daniel Omodeo
The Origin of the Idea of Material and Life Cycles in the Ancient Cosmos of Concentric Spheres
Historian of science Pietro Daniel Omodeo unpacks spheres from their context in ancient and early modern cosmology and metaphysical doctrine.
Engagement, Mapping, Spatial, Technoscience, History, Cosmologies, Life
- contributionSabine Höhler
Ecospheres: Model and Laboratory for Earth's Environment
Historian of science Sabine Höhler explores the technoscientific motives and consequences of experimenting with self-contained ecospheres.
Mapping, Engagement, Ecology, Life, Technoscience, Biosphere
- 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
- contributionSebastian Vehlken
The Alternative Futures Approach – Modelling the Unthinkable
The technosphere is running in scenario mode. In this introductory lecture, media theorist Sebastian Vehlken picks five exemplary historical scenes to explain how scenario modeling has become a basic function in mediating future crisis.
Mapping, Teaching, Future, History, Technosphere
- contributionRichard Hindle
Rivers, Coasts, and the Geographical Dimensions of Patent Innovation
Levees and dams form the fluvial geography of the technosphere. Landscape architect Richard Hindle shows how patents have historically catalyzed the establishment of these formations.
Mapping, Ocean, Technosphere, Geo-engineering
- contributionCarola Hein
Port Cities: Nodes in the Global Petroleumscape between Sea and Land
Historian of architecture and urbanism Carola Hein investigates the establishment, transformation, and future of the global petroleumscape.
Mapping, Architecture, Urbanism, Ocean
- contributionAndrew Chubb
China's “Blue Territory” and the Technosphere in Maritime East Asia
Andrew Chubb maps the complex space of maritime East Asia, tying together land rights, historical geopolitics, and the creation of artificial islands that construct it.
Mapping, Reflection, Ecology, History, Technosphere
- contributionJames P. M. Syvitski
Changes in Fluvial Systems, River Sediments and Deltas
Geologist and oceanographer James Syvitski maps how human modification of the world’s hydrological system continues to accelerate, how deltas are starved of sediment due to dam building, and how wetlands are lost and coasts retreat.
Mapping, Metabolism, Ocean, Water
- projectAlexandra Toland, Elena Bougleux, Herbert Lohner, Myriel Milićević
Seminar: Romancing the Anthropocene
Tracing shadows—an examination of technological datasets and Romantic concepts in the study area of Berlin-Moabit.
Field Work, Mapping, Knowledge transformation, Aesthetics, Biodiversity, Urbanism
- contributionRohini Devasher
Deep Time
What drives amateur astronomers? Artist Rohini Devasher on the power of projection.
Mapping, Human-environment relations, Deep time
- contributionIrma Allen, Cyrus Hester, Jesse Peterson
Metabolic Knowledge Flows
By whom and where was the information digested, processed, prepared, and served that went on to become Peter Haff’s legendary Technosphere Paper? An Investigation.
Mapping, Knowledge transformation, Metabolism, Data
