Method: Sensing
- projectChristoph Rosol, Giulia Rispoli, Katrin Klingan, Anna Echterhölter, Nigel Clark, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Desiree Foerster, Myriel Milićević, Karolina Sobecka, Alexandra Toland, Clemens Winkler, Kat Austen, Kristine L. DeLong, Jens Zinke, Victor Galaz, Simon Turner, Susan Schuppli, Liz Thomas, Niklas Hoffmann-Walbeck
Evidence Ensembles Publication
Conversation, Archiving, Sensing, Intervention, Consensus, Critical materials, Deep time, Knowledge infrastructure, Stratigraphy, Sedimentation, Complexity
- projectFrancine M.G. McCarthy, Colin Waters, Simon Turner, Martin J. Head, Bernd M. Scherer, Christoph Rosol, Georg N. Schäfer, Katrin Klingan
Press Material GSSP Candidate Site Announcement
Press material on the AWG, Crawford Lake, as well as the collaboration between the AWG, HKW and MPIWG.
Consensus Building, Engagement, Sensing, Field Work, Conversation, Knowledge production, Stratigraphy, Media
- 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
- 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
- projectBuhm Soon Park, Myung Ae Choi, Seul-gi Lee
Centre for Anthropocene Studies, South Korea 2018–
Provoking a paradigm shift in academic research, public policy, and social engagement through collaborations with scientists and artists.
Sensing, Teaching, Engagement, Conversation, History, Disaster, Species, Biodiversity, Agency
- project
Mississippi River Open School for Kinship and Social Exchange 2022–
An expansive educational and research collaboration through the formation of five river hubs spanning the Mississippi River’s headwaters to the Gulf.
Engagement, Teaching, Storytelling, Sensing, Conversation, Communicating, Water, Settler Colonialism, Environmental Justice, Race, Extraction
- contributionL. Sasha Gora
Moths, Flames, and Other Attractions
L. Sasha Gora takes a moth-eaten dress as a starting point for a meditation on eating and care.
Storytelling, Sensing, Care, Human-animal relations, Scale
- contributionXandra van der Eijk
Visualizing the Vibrant Materiality of Place
What insights can artistic research data produce in the scientific analysis of the natural archive? Xandra van der Eijk addresses the value of artmaking with, through, and between the materiality of place in the sediment samples of Sydney Harbour.
Case Study, Sensing, Agency, Complexity, Critical materials, Hybrid, Aesthetics, Pollution, Degradation, Toxicity
- contributionKat Austen, Nigel Clark, Kristine L. DeLong, Jens Zinke
Conversations Beyond the Human
Conversation, Sensing, Species, Ecology, Water, Human-environment relations
- contributionNina Canell and Robin Watkins
Silurian Harvest
Artists Nina Canell and Robin Watkins recover the deep-time aquatic past of the limestone environment that formed the island of Gotland and delineate the temporal entanglements between ancient life creation and modern-day living.
Sensing, Field Work, Aesthetics, Critical materials, Deep time, Degradation, Future, Economy, History, Human-environment relations, Sedimentation
- contributionKillian Quigley
Reading the Anthropocene Ocean
How do tropes and images of a changing ocean operate in a larger system of cultural sensemaking? Killian Quigley collects a range of threads to map the disfiguration and deformation of an anthropocenic biosphere that swells below the sea’s surface.
Sensing, Aesthetics, Ecology, Epistemology, Human-environment relations, Adaptation, Ocean, Future, Representation, Water
- contributionKarolina Sobecka, Desiree Foerster, Myriel Milićević, Alexandra Toland, Clemens Winkler
Whale Falls, Carbon Sinks
The following essay and mapping exercise on whales reflects on the natural-cultural history of these creatures whose non-human bodies allow for thinking across different aesthetic and epistemic registers.
Sensing, Aesthetics, Carbon, Capitalism, Embodiment, Violence, Energy, Ocean
- 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
- contributionMatthew J. Lutz
Born a Minim
Imagining the satirical intersection between two disparate worlds—field biology research on army ants and working for a machine learning startup.
Sensing, Experiment, Field Work, Ecology, Data, Species
- contributionEgo Ahaiwe Sowinski
Slowness in Urgency, Urgently Slow
What does it mean to be urgently slow in this undeniably urgent conjuncture? Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski advocates for intentional slowness as a strategy for resolution and healing.
Reflection, Sound, Sensing, Care, Habits, Human-environment relations, Climate change, Wisdom
- contributionJakob Kudsk Steensen, Daniel Birnbaum, Valeria Facchin, Cristina Baldacci
Aquaphobia
Artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen speaks about his VR artwork Aquaphobia: Fear of Water with director and curator Daniel Birnbaum.Sensing, Aesthetics, Affect, Flood, Future, Human-environment relations
- 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
- 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
- event
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
- contributionAllison Stegner, Yasaman Sheri
Interview: Sensing
Seminar moderators Allison Stegner and Yasaman Sheri reflect on the pathways, pitfalls and rewards of collectively learning to sense differently.
Conversation, Sensing, Embodiment, Human-animal relations, Affect, Scale
- 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
- projectYasaman Sheri, Allison Stegner
Seminar: Sensing
By focusing on the embodied, the extended, and the environing qualities that sensing has, the seminar oriented around how perception can be habituated as well as unlearned.
Sensing, Case Study, Conversation, Engagement
- contributionMichael Swierz, Monica Moses Haller
A Seed, a Sound
Attuning oneself to the transformations of the Anthropocene is both an intellectual and embodied experience. But how can the embodied experiences be shared, or even communicated, to one another online?
Sensing, Storytelling, Ecology, History
- contributionJoe Underhill
A River Semester
Reporting live from the Mississippi River, travelers question how transforming the act of sensing might remake social, political and environmental relations?
Sensing, Field Work, Conversation, Climate change, Race, Settler Colonialism, Species, Capitalism
- project
Case Studies and Seminars: The Shape of a Practice
The week-long The Shape of a Practice event, which took place in October 2020, was a product of a diverse collection of case studies.
Sensing, Reflection, Conversation, Case Study, Consensus Building, Archiving, Communicating, Agency, Network, Complexity, Knowledge infrastructure, Knowledge production, Topology
- project
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
- project
Anthropocene Campus Venice
Taking Venice as a point of departure to collectively reflect on geo-environmental politics in the water city and beyond.
Case Study, Conversation, Engagement, Sensing, Field Work, Water, Adaptation, Climate change, Flood, Human-environment relations, Risk
- 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
- 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
- contributionJoe Underhill
Navigating the Anthropocene River
On immersive, field-based education and an exploration of the (dis)comforts of an approach Anthropocene River Travelers describe as “being at home-in-the-world.”
Teaching, Storytelling, Reflection, Field Work, Engagement, Sensing, Education, Agency, Habits, Knowledge infrastructure, Knowledge production, Water, Wisdom
- 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
- contributionSarah Lewison
Of Forests, of Rivers, and of Meals
How can we think through concerns around food, sustainability and recuperative ecology on a localized level?
Engagement, Sensing, Biodiversity, Food
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Luz Mourão, Portugal
Sensing, Landscape
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Alqueva Dam, Alentejo, Portugal
Field Work, Sensing, Architecture, Ecomodernism, Access
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Mapping, Sensing, Data, Environmental Justice, Air
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Louisiana, USA
Sensing, Field Work, Care, Complexity, Ecology, Walking, Animal
- Field Notefriederike.landau
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Sensing, Storytelling, Reflection, Conversation, Affect, Agency, Anthropos, Capitalism, Consensus, Contingency, Epistemology, Ethics, Representation, Sharing economy, Extraction
- Field Noteunderhil
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Sensing, Monitoring, Climate change, Geo-engineering, Imaginary, Slavery, Cosmologies, Air, Transport
- 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 Noteryan.griffis
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New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Sensing, Aesthetics, Architecture, Capitalism, Infrastructure, Landscape, Perception
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Sensing, Conversation, Anthropology, Anthropos, Care, Degradation
- Field Noteayse
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Sensing, Reflection, Sound, Adaptation, Aesthetics, Ecology, Landscape, Air, 2019, Urban
- Field Noteunderhil
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St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, USA
Sensing, Field Work, Flood, Human-environment relations, Slavery, River journey, Flooding
- Field Noteunderhil
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Bonnet Carre Island, Louisiana, USA
Sensing, Engagement, Care, Resilience
- 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 Notebsteininger
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Sensing, Storytelling, Case Study, Architecture, Carbon, Commodities, Complexity, Substances, refinery, Catalysis
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Sensing, Monitoring, Calculation, Climate change, Disaster, Erosion, Flood, Landscape, Risk
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Mapping, Sensing, Data, Pollution, Air, Digital, Transport
- Field Notetturnbull
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Fulton County, Kentucky, USA
Sensing, Field Work, Sound, Conversation, Affect, River journey, Barge
- Field Noteemily.sekine
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St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Sensing, Storytelling, Field Work, Engagement, Conversation, Landscape, Perception, Sedimentation, River journey, Confluence
- contributionEllie Irons
Myths and Realities of the Kudzu Plant: On re-patterning, pigment, and entanglement
Reflecting on a workshop where participants engaged in a sensorial manner with the invasive kudzu plant—creating watercolor paints from its blossoms and leaves.
Field Work, Conversation, Sensing, Ecology, Human-environment relations, Landscape, Species
- 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
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Mapping, Sensing, Big data, Environmental Justice, Media, Pollution, Air, Geochemistry
- Field Notes.kanouse
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Readstown, Wisconsin, USA
Sensing, Field Work, Deep time
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Mapping, Monitoring, Sensing, Data, Knowledge infrastructure, Air, Geochemistry
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Twin Island, Wisconsin, USA
Monitoring, Sensing, Field Work, Data, Ecology, Pollution, Geochemistry
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Mapping, Monitoring, Sensing, Data, Knowledge infrastructure, Pollution, Geochemistry, Industrialization
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Sensing, Teaching, Mapping, Aesthetics, Education, Soundwalk, Transport, Embodied research
- 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 Notetemporarycontinent
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Big Bear Landing, Minnesota, USA
Sensing, Field Work, Extraction, Headwaters, Substances, Drink
- Field Noteunderhil
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Sensing, Field Study, Modeling, Local knowledge, Indigenous Rights, Cosmologies, River journey, Dakota
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Mississippi Headwaters, Minnesota, USA
Sensing, Erosion, Headwaters
- projectDavide Scarso
Parallax Lisboa 2017–
Parallax Lisboa is an initiative that experiments with novel ways of knowing and teaching in the Anthropocene. Spanning across a broad range of disciplines, the initiative seeks to make the interdependence of anthropocenic processes sense-able.
Sensing, Epistemology, Knowledge transformation
- 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
- contribution
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, Reflection, Field Work, Embodiment
- Field Noteunderhil
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Mississippi Headwaters, Minnesota, USA
Sensing, Field Study, Care, Engagement, Human-environment relations
- project
The Aerocene, London 2016
Case Study, Reflection, Sensing, Aerocene, Aesthetics, Air
- contribution
Listening to the Mississippi, 2019
There is no one correct way to listen to the river; there are multiple listenings, and multiple rivers.
Sound, Experiment, Field Work, Sensing, Aesthetics, Water
- Field Noteunderhil
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Sensing, Field Study, Infrastructure, Scale
- 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
- 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
- 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
- projectJohn Kim
Data Sensing
A home-built device travels downstream to explore the limits of digital representation and the possibilities of uncertain knowledge.
Teaching, Storytelling, Monitoring, Sensing, Data, Big data, Epistemology, Knowledge infrastructure, Water, Technoscience
- project
Anthropocene River Journey
What travel routes, forms of travel, and narratives are suitable for the new planetary realities?
Field Work, Sensing, Storytelling, Water, Education, Embodiment, Engagement
- 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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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
- contributionAftab Mirzaei
Pockets: Reflections on the Anthropocene Campus Melbourne
How can we perceive the Anthropocene? A contemplation on the ACM’s explorations through the lens of “atmospheric attunements.”
Reflection, Engagement, Sensing, Aesthetics, Critical materials, Perception
- event
Rethinking Environmental Praxis, Disciplinarity, and Subjectivity
New Perspectives on the Anthropocene in East Asia
Sensing, Epistemology, Naturecultures
- event
Global Environment and Democracy
This colloquium and workshop will rethink how to define the democracy in the Anthropocene and seek a new way to the future-planning which overcomes this “Anthropocenic” difficulty.
Sensing, Environmental Justice, Future
- projectSophia Roosth, Arren Bar-Even, Luis Campos, Helena Shomar, knowbotiq, Fred Hystère, Angi Nend, Claudia de Serpa Soares, Nicolas Buzzi, Pablo Alarcón
Seeds
The technological dissolution between internal and external conditions for life is manifest in the way seeds are handled. A series of conversations explores the practices and ideologies behind the collapse of modification and mutation. A subsequent performance of micro-processions will conjure historical and current moments of the agro-industrial technosphere.
Conversation, Engagement, Intervention, Sensing, Storytelling, Teaching, Agriculture, Biosphere, Degradation, Calculation, Ecology, Environmental Justice, Extraction, Human-environment relations, Embodiment, Landscape, Life, Plantation, Water, Waste, Toxicity, Pollution
- event
Ecologies of Knowledge and Practice
A workshop on the interlinkage of the production of knowledge of Japan to new forms of engagement with contemporary ecological concerns.
Sensing, Human-environment relations, Disciplinarity
- event
Asia’s Transformations to Sustainability
RIHN 11th International Symposium
Sensing, Agriculture, Economy
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Imagination of the Terra
Imagination of the Terra
Sensing, Naturecultures
- contribution
Imagination of the Terra
Sensing, Naturecultures
- projectEiko Honda, Masahiro Terada, Daniel Niles, Maya Kóvskaya
Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto 2017–
Conceptual, material, and immaterial cultural forms through which environmental knowledge has been recognized, organized, activated, and transmitted in Japan.
Sensing, Epistemology, Naturecultures
- contributionAndrew Yang, Jeremy Bolen
Potency and Partial Knowledge. An Exercise
While the vast macro and micro scales of the technosphere can be difficult to grapple with, so too is the complexity of its many interactions. The artists Andrew Yang and Jeremy Bolen propose a modest attunement exercise to counter this inaccessibility.
Experiment, Sensing, Sound, Technosphere, Complexity, Scale, Knowledge infrastructure, Perception
- contributionNik Kosmas
On Anthropotechnics and Physical Practice
How does the human body fit into technospheric conceptualizations of performance, efficiency, and optimization?
Conversation, Sensing, Technosphere, Life, Technoscience, Anthropos
- contributionLizzie Stark
Larp as Technology
What does it mean to share or feel another’s embodied experience?
Experiment, Sensing, Reflection, Affect, Care, Ethics, Perception
- contributionTechnosphere Editorial
Dancing (the) Technosphere
Tokyo University researchers demonstrate the explicit interfaces between the human somatic niche and the technosphere.
Modeling, Sensing, Experiment, Technosphere, Anthropos, Technoscience, Perception
- contributionJohn Tresch
Anthropotechnics for the Anthropocene
Historian John Tresch looks at the history of modern science from the angle of spiritual athleticism, ascetic practices and epistemic virtues.
Reflection, Sensing, Conversation, Knowledge infrastructure, Knowledge production, Knowledge transformation, Wisdom
- contributionJennifer Gabrys
Sensing Air and Generating Worlds of Data
As environments increasingly become computational so does computation become environmental. Jennifer Gabrys shows how the instrumentation of the planet with sensor devices produces specific forms of concretizations that have a life of their own and contour the earthly space anew.
Sensing, Technosphere, Data, Technoscience, Computation
- 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
- contributionEtienne Benson
The Virtual Field
Historian of science Etienne Benson describes how the increasingly complex infrastructure of sensing is altering the experience of fieldwork, the persona of the scientist, and the nature of the knowledge that is produced.
Sensing, Field Work, Knowledge production, Knowledge transformation
- contributionMax Symuleski
Sensing/Knowing
How can we move out of our habitual mode of engaging with space? A field guide for taking a walk through out senses.
Sensing, Field Work, Naturecultures, Engagement
- projectJeremy Bolen, Andrew Yang, Emily Eliza Scott, Heather Davis
Seminar: Sensing the Insensible
With a critical eye to what aesthetics in/of/through the Anthropocene might mean, we will engage with ways that established forms of perceiving might be transformed in the broadest sense—toward new sensitivities of the long now, and the emergent technosphere that conditions our understanding of it.
Teaching, Engagement, Sensing, Aesthetics, Affect, Agency, Epistemology, Embodiment
- contributionElena Bougleux, Eva Castringius, Jonathan Cohrs, Lars Kulik, Esther Meyer, Christopher Reznich
Survivalism
Hurry, there are limited seats! Exploring social stratification and the limits of cooperation with the help of peanuts and musical chairs.
Sensing, Teaching, Aesthetics, Epistemology, survival, glossary
- projectBernard Geoghegan, Stéphane Grumbach, Orit Halpern, Olivier Hamant, Robert Mitchell, Mark Hansen, Erich Hörl
Seminar: Algorithmic Intermediation and Smartness
What forms of futurity, speculation, and life do algorithmic intermediations produce? To explore this it seems expedient to focus on “smartness,” a term legitimating—as in the “smart home”—the increased introduction of computation in social life.
Experiment, Teaching, Conversation, Modeling, Monitoring, Sensing, Case Study, Complexity, Computation, Big data, Technosphere, Technoscience, System, Data, Governance, Sharing economy
- projectJohn Tresch, Jeremy Bolen, Andrew Yang, Sasha Engelmann, Bronislaw Szerszynski, Alex Martinis Roe, Melanie Sehgal, Roman Brinzanik, Deborah Haaksman, Rebekka Ladewig, Hendrik Weber
Wisdom Techniques
The interlacing between knowledge and the technosphere has a very subtle yet decisive dimension: the collectively ingrained practices and routines that are the preconditions for adequately responding to the non-human dynamics of a world in transition. What are the regimes of sense training, ascetic modes of inquiry, and techniques of mental cultivation that let us learn and understand something? What might be needed to reshape and modify these in light of the predicament of the Anthropocene?
Communicating, Conversation, Intervention, Sensing, Storytelling, Teaching, Aerocene, Adaptation, Anthropos, Care, Consensus, Cosmologies, Disciplinarity, Embodiment, Habits, Knowledge production, Knowledge transformation, Scale, Scenario, Wisdom
- contributionJohan Gärdebo, Agata Marzecova, Hanna Vikström
Orbital Geopolitics
A conceptualization of the human‒nature‒technology nexus needs to examine the uneven geographies and power geometries of the Anthropocene epoch. Satellites are a case in point.
Sensing, Complexity, Evolution, History, Scale, Waste, Speculative
- contributionJorg Sieweke
Imagine the Anthropocene with a Little Help from the Monster in You...
How can monstrous occurances help us to sense and imagine the sublime?
Case Study, Sensing, Representation
- contributionIsadora Neves Marques, Mariana Silva
Sharing Surveillance Data
1964 is the year the first geostationary satellite was launched into Earth’s orbit. A conversation about the life, history, and politics of geostationary satellites and the sharing of surveillance data, with Anna Åberg and Johan Gärdebo.
Film, Sensing, Data
