Baton Rouge: A Process Landscape at the Confluence of German-American Chemistry
The impact of fossil fuel emissions on climate change is well established. This research project sheds light on the lesser known origins and history of the petro-industry. (...)
Before I Know You
A project on the ephemeral art of carving water. (...)
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. (...)
From Plantations to Petrochemicals
What can the history of slavery tell us about the future of the Anthropocene? (...)
Infrastructural Nature
Green infrastructures intend to respond to the climatic and environmental challenges of the Anthropocene. But which landscapes are considered worthy of protection and on what grounds? (...)
Into the Breach
The geo-engineering efforts undertaken at the Mississippi mirror an ongoing belief in the human ability to predict, control, and regulate an entire eco-system of continental-scale. What could a more adaptive system of river management look like? (...)
Paddle Waves and Sparkling Light
Waves form the focus of Andrea Carlson’s Traveler Project, which brings together the world of fluid dynamics with the Ojibwe language to create new artworks. (...)
Project: Monique Verdin
Unearthing the pre-industrial waterways of the Mississippi River Delta. (...)
Revisiting Regionalism in the Mississippi Basin
What if the kinetic energy of the river’s flow could be utilized for a regionalized power system? This research project turns towards the past and future of infrastructural regionalism. (...)
The Panesthetic River
This project identifies rivers as crucial for investigating representations of the Anthropocene, via the medium of experimental documentary film. (...)
Anthropocene River Campus: The Human Delta
The Anthropocene River Campus: The Human Delta synthesized the downstream Mississippi within a week-long field research and educational event at Tulane University, as well as sites in and around New Orleans. (...)
Contesting the De-industrial Futures of the Upper Mississippi
A multilayered project towards the de-regulation of nature. (...)
Field Station 3: Anthropocene Vernacular
In the St. Louis region, memories and meanings of millennia of settlement collide. Anthropocene Vernacular investigates how everyday culture has been cultivated in the midst of social, environmental, economic crises. (...)
Field Station 5: Place, Space & Relations of Belongings
The Upper Delta region is shaped by environmental forces of evolving multiracial identities and inherently global economic forces. Field Station 5 explores the spatial dynamics which formed the contemporary identity of this region. (...)
Kick-off Anthropocene River Journey
The kick-off event draws together many of the essential themes and concerns of the overarching journey from the headwaters to New Orleans for a public gathering. (...)
Midway Meeting St. Louis
At the “Midway Meeting” in St. Louis, project partners gathered to explore the temporal and topographical multiplicitices of the metropolitcan region of St. Louis. (...)
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. (...)
New Orleans Anthropocene Field Campus
The New Orleans Anthropocene Field Campus investigates site-specific processes of environmental change and injustice and develops tactics for interdisciplinary engagement with the Anthropocene. (...)