Publication of processes and projects that build on and continue from six case studies of the Mississippi. An Anthropocene River project by design students at the University of Applied Sciences, Potsdam.

A guided meditation that invites us to journey deep into the earth and back in time.

Downloadable instructions for building a miniature boat that offer an intuitive exercise in navigating our own eco-cosmological embodiment.

Listening to the stories and sounds that resonate around the Mississippi can show how ecosystems exist within multiple crisscrossing interrelations.

What does it mean to become a responsible guest? This set of field guides and accompanying exercises offer an adaptable tool for the uninvited traveler.

What is the sound of the Lower Mississippi, a “superhighway” through which huge proportions of exported goods from the US are shipped every day?

Mississippi Multiverse is an immersive film that starts from an embodied sensorial practice to reckon with the ecological impact of petrochemical industries along the river.

Transmitting from Berlin, Germany, season 2 of Abbéy Odunlami’s podcast features conversations on Europe’s role in the age of migration which is also the age of the Anthropocene.

How might critical artistic mapping reveal the relations of power that dominate a region?

Under the water line an entirely different auditive setting begins. Can we learn to heal and re-build relations with our damaged environment by frequenting this boundary?

An exchange on how learning to be fully present in a place requires us to embrace entanglements with broader geographical contexts and ties to far-away locales.

Far from belonging to a dated genre, landscapes can prompt artists to engage with the embodied, experiential and political qualities of space.

Non-human species sometimes mediate societal processes of marginalization, but they can also play a role in solidarity. What might we learn from other species?

To what end should activism and institutionally backed projects cooperate? Contributors Kim and Odunlami recap on their experiences in the years 2019 and 2020.

Research and artistic practice depend on exchange and openness to other perspectives. But how can artists and researchers approach blind spots in practice?

A narrative-based podcast that discusses how geography determines many people’s relationship to resources, land, and wellbeing.

A multi-scale map of the Mississippi watershed around St. Louis for the “river rats” of the Anthropocene.

A multimedia artwork that uncovers the sublime beauty of fossilized forests.

A traveling seminar on the relations between settler colonialism, racial capitalism, and environmental concerns in the Upper Midwest territory.

Significant and Insignificant Mounds looks to read two landscapes across one another in order to complicate our understandings of authenticity, meaning, and form.

Exploring niches of ecological autonomy through a series of food encounters.

On dams, micro worlds and the end of humanity—four short films inspired by the Headwaters field station.

Public enemy or mascot of a global commons? Tracing the postnatural expansion of the Asian Carp.

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.”

Unearthing the pre-industrial waterways of the Mississippi River Delta.

A mythologized Uranium enrichment facility in Honeywell sets the scene for radioisotopes that are key markers for determining the Anthropocene.

On the difference between a river and a boundary. Impressions from the levee and speculations on a view from afar. 

This project identifies rivers as crucial for investigating representations of the Anthropocene, via the medium of experimental documentary film.