- Ellie Irons
- Maya Kóvskaya
- Abbéy Odunlami
- Jared Richardson
- Hannah Schaedler
- Montana Torrey
- Tamara Becerra Valdez
Field Station 5: Place, Space & Relations of Belongings
The Upper Delta region—stretching from Memphis, Tennessee, all the way to New Orleans, Louisiana—is shaped intensively by environmental forces, the dynamics of evolving multiracial identities in the American South, as well as by inherently global economic forces. All these factors spatially construct the Upper Delta. This is as true for the social meanings and identities it confers on human bodies as it is for the actual terrain and aquatic infrastructure that has formed the topographic body of the landscape itself.
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- projectAbbéy Odunlami, Jared Richardson
Broadcasting Live from… Field Station 5
A narrative-based podcast that discusses how geography determines many people’s relationship to resources, land, and wellbeing.
Storytelling, Sound, Case Study, Water, Spatial, Urbanism, Equality, Economy, Capitalism, Local knowledge, Environmental Justice, Race
- projectEllie Irons, Maya Kóvskaya, Montana Torrey
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
- projectEllie Irons
Re-Patterning with Kudzu
The introduction of Kudzu into the American South has a storied history connecting rhetoric around migration and race with ecology.
Case Study, Storytelling, Species, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Settler Colonialism, Migration, Race
- projectMontana Torrey
Two Breezes
Punkahs brought climate control into the American South from early on, using enslaved peoples to laboriously fan plantation owners in the summer heat.
Case Study, Storytelling, Plantation, Slavery, Socio-ecological design, Air
- 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
