A Scattered World View: Anthropogenic Visions Developed by Participants’ Assignments
The task for participants was to select one meaningful example of an Anthropogenic Landscape, a case study from their personal research background, and to link it conceptually to the anthropocenic themes at stake in the Lichtenberg case study. The feedback was surprising: a rich variety of disquieting, aesthetic, accurate descriptions of unstable landscapes, relocated communities, and scattered visions of Nature, sketching an overall network of ideal relations to the Lichtenberg case in metaphorical, historical, chemical, cultural, and political ways.
Read More- contributionAlly Bisshop
Sounding Landscapes
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
Case Study, History, Landscape, Aesthetics, Naturecultures
- contributionEric Paglia
Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, Norway
The phenomenon of Arctic amplification enhances the effects of climate change in the northern latitudes, making the region a “barometer” for future environmental impacts elsewhere. A case study on the scientific community of Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, Norway.
Case Study, Climate change, Knowledge production, Community
- contributionMaialen Galarraga (Maia)
La Arboleda
A case study on the consequences of the mining industry in one of the former biggest mining enclaves in southern Europe: the town Trapagaran in the Basque country, Spain.
Case Study, Mining, Extraction
- contributionYesenia Thibault-Picazo
Freshkills, New York City
How did the former Freshkills landfill in New York City, USA, transform into the wild, yet highly engineered landscape of the landfill mounds?
Case Study, Naturecultures, History, Waste
- contributionAndrew Yang
Remnant Formations
A study on a particular ant, the Pheidole morrisi, across a wide latitudinal gradient
Case Study, Human-animal relations, Biodiversity
- contributionAnna Lillie Svensson
Nordic Fauna Seen in Nature
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?
Case Study, Aesthetics, Naturecultures, Anthropology
- contributionAnnegret Schmidt
The Vietnamese Community in Eastern New Orleans
A case study exploring the religious life of the Vietnamese community in Versailles and Village de l’Est, New Orleans, USA
Case Study, Migration
