Seminar: Consensus Building
With myriad different perspectives, tools and methods for describing the planet in transformation, how is it that consensus and verification can be established? (...)
Seminar: Sensing
By focusing on the embodied, the extended, and the environing qualities that sensing has, the seminar oriented around how perception can be habituated as well as unlearned. (...)
Coordinating Practice
The Anthropocene has a coordination problem. This discussion highlights the many challenges of coordinating projects at different scales, both spatially and temporally. (...)
A Trace, a Breath
Using sensory work, artists explore how the effects of opium relate to colonialist and capitalist extraction, and convey a tale of industry and the Latvian geological landscape. (...)
Place and Space
How do materials from different forms of research communicate with each other? (...)
A River Semester
Reporting live from the Mississippi River, travelers question how transforming the act of sensing might remake social, political and environmental relations? (...)
Xaraasi Xanne—Crossing Voices
Raphaël Grisey and Boube Touré chronicle the practices of a self-organized farming cooperative founded by former African migrant workers and activists in France in 1977. (...)
Histories of Disintegration
Histories can often be told through the changes in a landscape; about what has changed and come to form, but most of all, what is excluded altogether. (...)
Knowing Together
How can we build communities that share knowledge about climate issues, both locally and at the planetary-scale? (...)
Approaching a Waterway
Artists discuss sturgeons pushed to the edge of extinction and the future of a chemically polluted river near Cape Town. (...)
An Anthropocene in Two Parts
The most challenging aspects of doing Anthropocene research require learning how local realities may inform broader global issues. (...)
The Stories We Tell, the Images We Take
The first screening session of The Shape of a Practice featured film and performance that negotiates different research practices of archiving, and enacting embodied relationships. (...)
The Shape of a Practice: Online Project Environment
A dynamic virtual landscape served as a venue for The Shape of a Practice. (...)
Resisting the Oblivion of Eco-Colonialism
Nathan Jessee speaks with Louisiana Gulf Coast Tribal leaders about the social and environmental threats they face and their efforts to ensure social and ecological futures. (...)
Case Studies and Seminars: The Shape of a Practice
The week-long The Shape of a Practice event, which took place in October 2020, was a product of a diverse collection of case studies. (...)
The Shape of a Practice 2020
The Shape of a Practice constituted an experiment in negotiating the particularities of context, purpose, and method. (...)
Anthropocene Campus Venice
Taking Venice as a point of departure to collectively reflect on geo-environmental politics in the water city and beyond. (...)
Anthropocene River Campus: The Human Delta short film
Critical insights from and impressions of the Anthropocene River Campus: The Human Delta, which took place in New Orleans in November 2019. (...)