- Alya Ansari
- Bruce Braun
- Matthew Fluharty
- Ryan Griffis
- Sarah Lewison
- Roopali Phadke
- Joe Underhill
- Andrew Yang
Project Launch Minneapolis
Symposium at Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis – June 20, 2018
How can the Anthropocene become a concept that activates the way in which we engage with planetary change? And how can local narratives of the Anthropocene become graspable along the Mississippi River? At the inaugural symposium of the year-long collaborative interdisciplinary research project Mississippi. An Anthropocene River, collaborators of the project gathered at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis on June 20, 2018, to share, exchange and discuss their research perspectives as well as methodological approaches and practices. The symposium first considered the concept’s potential to transform human-environment interactions and secondly examined how the analysis of local articulations of Anthtopocene processes may help to turn an otherwise seemingly incomprehensible concept graspable and intelligible. The following contributions provide an insight into the activities on-site.
Read More- contributionJoe Underhill
River Semester Project
Which forms of educational practices are apt to challenge traditional forms of academic knowledge production? A presentation on the River Semester project by Joe Underhill
Field Work, Knowledge transformation, Human-environment relations
- contributionRoopali Phadke
Looking Downstream
How do narratives, relationships and practices change when we talk about anthropocene rivers?
Knowledge production, Imaginary, Naturecultures
- contributionBruce Braun
Defining the Anthropocene
Which connotations does the Anthropocene concept carry? What does it hide and obscure? An input on the conceptual implications of the Anthropocene term by Bruce Braun
Reflection, Epistemology, Disciplinarity, Perception
- contributionRyan Griffis
The Great Green Desert
Input by Ryan Griffis on the collaborative film project A Great Green Desert which focuses on the agricultural practice of monocropping
Biodiversity, Landscape, Ecology
- contributionSarah Lewison
The Confluence Area
Sarah Lewison presents her work in the confluence area where the Mississippi, Missouri and Illinois River converge.
Naturecultures
- contributionMatthew Fluharty
The American Bottom
Introduction to the work of the landscape curation project The American Bottom by Matthew Fluharty.
Field Work, Human-environment relations, Spatial
- contributionAndrew Yang
Deep Time Chicago
Andrew Yang speaks about his involvement with the art/research/activism initiative Deep Time Chicago which endeavors to develop a public research trajectory on Anthropocene questions.
Reflection, Embodiment, Deep time, Spatial, Climate change
- contributionAlya Ansari
Evolving Epistemologies: Knowing about/along the Mississippi
How does the Anthropocene inform practices of knowledge production? A conceptual treatment of the guiding questions of the project launch of Mississippi. An Anthropocene River.
Field Work, Epistemology, Knowledge transformation
