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. (...)
Risk & Equity in the Louisiana Anthropocene
On the different manifestations and impacts of the Louisiana Anthropocene, which have been lent somber new resonance in 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic. (...)
Measuring Loss
In response to the complicated entanglements of property claims in the Mississippi Delta, Sarah Lewison advocates for witnessing injustice as a way of preparing for repair. (...)
Rogue Elements of the Upper Mississippi
A series of flash nonfiction pieces chronicling some of the rogue elements encountered during the Anthropocene River Journey. (...)
Of Forests, of Rivers, and of Meals
How can we think through concerns around food, sustainability and recuperative ecology on a localized level? (...)
Myths and Realities of the Kudzu Plant: On re-patterning, pigment, and entanglement
Reflecting on a workshop where participants engaged in a sensorial manner with the invasive kudzu plant—creating watercolor paints from its blossoms and leaves. (...)
Immersion from the Observation Deck
Regan Golden proposes the observation deck at the Visitor Center of St. Anthony as a space for thinking about one’s relationship with—and detachment from—landscape. (...)
Edible Matters along the Mississippi
How the “edible matter” of food as a leading agent in landscape change along the Mississippi River. (...)
Parallax Lisboa 2017–
Parallax Lisboa is an initiative that experiments with novel ways of knowing and teaching in the Anthropocene. Spanning across a broad range of disciplines, the initiative seeks to make the interdependence of anthropocenic processes sense-able. (...)
Inheritance
A multimedia artwork that uncovers the sublime beauty of fossilized forests. (...)
In Situ Anthropocene
What can the Mississippi River Valley teach us about how to read the planetary shifts of the Anthropocene through its local waterways and landscapes? (...)
The Aerocene, London 2016
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Listening to the Mississippi, 2019
There is no one correct way to listen to the river; there are multiple listenings, and multiple rivers. (...)
Suspended Solids
A chromatic record of the intimate relationship between the Mississippi River and its surrounding soils. (...)
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. (...)
The Panesthetic River
This project identifies rivers as crucial for investigating representations of the Anthropocene, via the medium of experimental documentary film. (...)