Carbon in the Anthropocene
Anthropocene is a word we commonly use today. However, its roots and true impacts on our planet are often lost when we talk about climate change. To begin examining carbon through different lenses, this module will first introduce some terminologies that are central to global conversations around climate change. By expanding on the interconnections between carbon, water, agriculture and more, this module emphasises the need to approach climate change through varied perspectives. Introducing the (...)
Collaborative Mapping at Westhafen
Can a harbor offer “places of access” to the Anthropocene? This Berlin project sought to find out via methods of collaborative, playful entanglement. (...)
The Current: Mississippi. An Anthropocene River
The installation The Current presented field studies by artists, scholars, and activists who were involved in the AC project Mississippi. An Anthropocene River. (...)
Seminar: Archiving
How can we move from the archive (as an institution) to archiving as a practice that sustains many lives (like oral history, dancing, singing, cooking)? (...)
Social Witnessing
Two case studies focus on two very different landscapes, and attempt to account for the changing relationships that make them over time. (...)
The Mississippi Basin: An Operational Landscape
Architect and urbanist Nikos Katsikis describes the assemblage of “operational landscapes” that are tied to the Mississippi basin. (...)
“What on Earth”: Confluences in the planetary metabolism
Field Station 4 contributor Andrew Yang elucidates on the reasons for taking its title, “Confluence Ecologies,” as a lens through which to apprehend the Anthropocene (...)
Understanding Social and Ecological Impacts of the Horse in the Greater Mississippi
The initiators of the Horses, Donkeys, and the Anthropocene in the Greater Mississippi project provide an update on their findings. (...)
Little River Research & Design
The models produced by Little River Research & Design convey an acutely material consciousness of the relentless processes of change that shape the Mississippi River. (...)
Mississippi Region Nitrogen Dioxide Distribution Map
An ongoing series of satellite maps produced by the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, charting nitrogen distribution in the Mississippi region. (...)
Unlearning a territory
Sadie Luetmer’s project will entail writing about the headwaters region in Minnesota, Anishinaabe territory, reflecting upon the maps and relations she once learned and is now unlearning and learning again. (...)
Mapping the Distribution of Nitrogen Dioxide in the Mississippi Region
What do the spatial patterns of the distribution of nitrogen dioxide reveal about human-environment relations? And how do pollution levels along the Mississippi compare globally? (...)
The Watershed in Your Head
Moving from political economy to political ecology: an invitation to get involved. (...)
Collaborative Map
Geospatial connections between the themes and research being collected during the project are displayed on an interactive, collaborative map. (...)
Territories—Watersheds—Infrastructures
A multi-scale map of the Mississippi watershed around St. Louis for the “river rats” of the Anthropocene. (...)
Field Station 4: Confluence Ecologies
This Field Station sets out to engage with the ecologic-economic-technological infrastructures between Kentucky and Illinois and will bring a regionally focused lens to the globally entangled Anthropocene condition. (...)
AWG Mississippi Essays
Essays from members of the AWG and other researchers discussing some of the crucial aspects that make the Mississippi River an icon of global Anthropocene transformations. (...)
Mississippi. An Anthropocene River 2018–19
Mississippi. An Anthropocene River aims to make the Mississippi River Basin legible as a zone of ecological, historical, and social interaction between humans and the environment using novel forms of exchange, research, collaboration, and pedagogy. (...)