Keyword: Landscape
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“Anthroposcenes:” Historicizing Colonial Landscapes and Seascapes
Talk by environmental historian Gregory T. Cushman—and roundtable discussion with Chamoru poet and scholar Craig Santos Perez and multispecies scholar Maya Kóvskaya.
Conversation, Engagement, Intervention, Mapping, Species, Human-animal relations, Ecology, Settler Colonialism, Water, Capitalism, Landscape
- contributionKatrin Klingan, Soren Brothers, Francine M.G. McCarthy, Michelle Murphy, Catherine Tammaro, Mark Williams
Core Readings: Crawford Lake
How do different forms of societal organization and land use over the centuries affect the environment on local and planetary levels?
Consensus Building, Conversation, Engagement, Field Work, Life, History, Human-environment relations, Landscape, Scale, Settler Colonialism, Knowledge production
- projectArmin Linke, Giulia Bruno, Linda van Deursen
Earth Indices
A project by artists Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke explores the scientific and social conditions producing the new geological epoch, the Anthropocene.
Intervention, Field Work, Conversation, Data, Holocene, Media, Sedimentation, Stratigraphy, Landscape
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Anthropocene Working Group. A Scientific Forum
During Unearthing the Present, the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) will present the conclusive stratigraphic findings from twelve sites that hold the potential to become a GSSP for the formal demarcation of the Anthropocene.
Case Study, Consensus Building, Conversation, Stratigraphy, Holocene, Deep time, Landscape, Ocean, Data, Sedimentation
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What if the Dam was removed?
What could a single major infrastructural decision tell us about the situational contexts of bringing about lasting change?
Case Study, Conversation, Infrastructure, Governance, Landscape, Agency, Water
- contributionAdam Bobbette
A Javanese Anthropocene?
Geographer and writer Adam Bobbette describes the reciprocal and porous relationship between society and geology in early twentieth-century Java, and Julia Adeney Thomas argues that the novelty of the Anthropocene lies in the shift from local geology to the chronicling of the Earth system
Consensus Building, Storytelling, Cosmologies, Epistemology, History, Landscape, Wisdom
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State of Nature—Dialogues
This three day conference invites its audience into both a consideration of the ecological and political urgencies at large in our global present, and an awareness of the strategies that are being crafted to address them.
Storytelling, Field Study, Conversation, Engagement, Urbanism, Ecology, Naturecultures, Species, Landscape, Infrastructure, Climate change
- contributionSimon Turner
Shifting Sands or Set in Stone?
Simon Turner reflects on the International Chronostratigraphic Chart as both a continual work in progress and a product of centuries of scientific consensus-building.
Consensus Building, Engagement, Field Work, Mapping, Big data, Holocene, Calculation, Consensus, Landscape, History
- contributionShannon Mattern
Archival Phase Shifts
What might an “Anthropocene archive” look like? Media anthropologist Shannon Mattern proposes that it should embrace its ever evolving content, structure and context.
Archiving, Mapping, Water, Climate change, Time, Flood, Landscape, Knowledge infrastructure, Toxicity, Capitalism
- contributionCatherine Russell
Active Archives
Catherine Russell invites us into the University of Leicester geology archive and proposes that archives are teeming with potential for new understandings.
Archiving, Teaching, Storytelling, Conversation, Landscape, Deep time, History, Knowledge infrastructure
- contributionJennifer Colten, Ryan Griffis, Sarah Kanouse
In a Landscape, Over Time
Far from belonging to a dated genre, landscapes can prompt artists to engage with the embodied, experiential and political qualities of space.
Conversation, Field Work, Landscape, Environmental Justice
- contributionMargarida Mendes, Monica Moses Haller
Listening Underwater
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?
Conversation, Water, Embodiment, Toxicity, Landscape, Sound
- contributionEmily Sekine
Rogue Elements of the Upper Mississippi
A series of flash nonfiction pieces chronicling some of the rogue elements encountered during the Anthropocene River Journey.
Field Work, Sensing, Reflection, Ecology, Infrastructure, Landscape, Human-environment relations, Water
- projectRyan Griffis
After Extraction
Combining creative nonfiction, montage-based images, and intuitive exercises to depict a partial history of extractive land use in Central Illinois.
Field Work, Settler Colonialism, Landscape
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London, United Kingdom
Storytelling, Field Study, Field Work, Experiment, Deep time, Erosion, Flood, History, Human-environment relations, Imaginary, Landscape, Sedimentation
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Luz Mourão, Portugal
Sensing, Landscape
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
Field Work, Aesthetics, Water, Care, Landscape, River journey
- Field Notesimon.turner
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London, United Kingdom
Field Work, Experiment, Monitoring, Calculation, Knowledge production, Landscape, Mud
- Field Noteryan.griffis
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Field Study, Architecture, Capitalism, Infrastructure, Landscape, Inequality
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Modeling, Mapping, Reflection, Experiment, Conversation, Adaptation, Aesthetics, Affect, Agency, Architecture, Care, Climate change, Contingency, Ecology, Future, Imaginary, Infrastructure, Landscape, Representation
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Adaptation, Agency, Biodiversity, Climate change, Complexity, Future, Knowledge transformation, Landscape, Perception, Flooding, 2019
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Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, USA
Field Study, Deep time, Erosion, Landscape, Sedimentation, Sand, Mud, Clay
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Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA
Field Study, Mapping, Degradation, Erosion, History, Landscape, Life
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Union, St. James Parish, Louisiana, USA
Energy, Landscape
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Carlisle, Louisiana, USA
History, Landscape
- Field Noteryan.griffis
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New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Sensing, Aesthetics, Architecture, Capitalism, Infrastructure, Landscape, Perception
- Field Notesimon.turner
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New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Infrastructure, Landscape, Life, Transport, Urban, Confluence
- Field Noteayse
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Sensing, Reflection, Sound, Adaptation, Aesthetics, Ecology, Landscape, Air, 2019, Urban
- Field Noteryan.griffis
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Storytelling, Intervention, Film, Agriculture, Autonomy, Embodiment, Equality, History, Landscape, Life, Scenario, Race, Inequality, Slavery, Plantation, Extraction
- Field Notebsteininger
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Burton Lane, St. James Parish, Louisiana, USA
Storytelling, Field Study, Anthropos, Engagement, Landscape, Inequality, Slavery, Oil, Law, undead
- Field Notebsteininger
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Donaldsonville, Louisiana, USA
Storytelling, Field Study, Agriculture, Biosphere, Capitalism, Commodities, Erosion, Landscape, Sedimentation, Industrialization, Geochemistry, River journey, Catalysis, Time
- Field Notebsteininger
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Plaquemine Island, Louisiana, USA
Storytelling, Field Work, Complexity, Deep time, Infrastructure, Landscape, Metabolism, Oil, refinery, Catalysis
- Field Notebsteininger
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Storytelling, Field Work, Capitalism, Carbon, Hybrid, Landscape, Oil, Walking, refinery, Catalysis
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Sensing, Monitoring, Calculation, Climate change, Disaster, Erosion, Flood, Landscape, Risk
- Field Noteslewison
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Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Adaptation, Biodiversity, Climate change, Complexity, Contingency, Degradation, Ecology, Evolution, Landscape, Life, Resilience, Adventitious, Geo-ecologies
- Field Noteunderhil
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Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Field Study, Modeling, Geo-engineering, Imaginary, Landscape, Model, Scale, Overlook, Cement, Confluence
- Field Noteemily.sekine
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St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Sensing, Storytelling, Field Work, Engagement, Conversation, Landscape, Perception, Sedimentation, River journey, Confluence
- contributionEllie Irons
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.
Field Work, Conversation, Sensing, Ecology, Human-environment relations, Landscape, Species
- contributionLynn Peemoeller, Bill Iseminger, Katie Englemeyer, Susan Bostwick, Jennifer McBride, Rob Connoley, Gayle Fritz, Natalie Mueller
Lost Crops Conversation
A conversation on the evolution of agriculture and foodways, and how that has affected representations of landscape, cuisine—and a cracker box.
Conversation, Agriculture, Representation, Landscape, Biodiversity, Human-environment relations
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Moline, Illinois, USA
Field Study, Storytelling, Agriculture, Degradation, Landscape, Mechanosphere, Technosphere, Industrialization
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Baraboo, Wisconsin, USA
Case Study, Biodiversity, Landscape, Ammunition
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Baraboo, Wisconsin, USA
Case Study, Biodiversity, Landscape, Ammunition
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Kickapoo Valley Reserve, Wisconsin, USA
Field Work, Mapping, Storytelling, Anthropology, Glaciation, Indigenous Rights, History, Naturecultures, Landscape, Local knowledge, Spatial, Memory, Ritual
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St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Experiment, Ecology, Erosion, Landscape
- Field Noteemily.sekine
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Winona County, Minnesota, USA
Field Study, Mapping, Field Work, Complexity, Contingency, Engineering, Flood, Infrastructure, Landscape, Network, Navigation
- Field NoteChristoph Rosol
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Crater Island, Wisconsin, USA
Field Work, Energy, Homeostasis, Landscape, River journey
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Minnesota, USA
Film, Landscape, Wilderness inquiry, 2019
- projectLynn Peemoeller
Edible Matters along the Mississippi
How the “edible matter” of food as a leading agent in landscape change along the Mississippi River.
Field Study, Case Study, Sensing, Storytelling, Conversation, Engagement, Human-environment relations, Agriculture, Landscape
- projectLynn Peemoeller
Postnatural Landscapes
Ancient agricultural practices in the American Bottom were significant in the shaping of the landscapes and foodscapes that exist today.
Field Work, Case Study, Landscape, Deep time, History, Anthropology, Agriculture, Evolution, Food
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Field Station 3 | Empire and Extraction
A bus looking at ways the river–as a material, administrative, and conceptual boundary–has troubled the horizon of care and imagination in the St. Louis region
Field Study, Reflection, Case Study, Radioactivity, Landscape
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Field Station 3 | Significant and Insignificant Mounds + Laboratory for Suburbia
A bus tour takes the route from Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site to the disposal area of Weldon Spring.
Field Work, Engagement, Radioactivity, Landscape
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Field Station 3 | Significant and Insignificant Mounds: Billboard Installation
This project is situated at the largest of the demolished mounds—the so-called “Big Mound” site—on what is now the north riverfont of St. Louis.
Landscape, Engagement
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Mississippi Headwaters, Minnesota, USA
History, Landscape
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Lake Itasca, Minnesota, USA
Teaching, Engagement, Conversation, Consensus, Knowledge production, Landscape, Navigation, DNR
- contributionMichael Swierz, Maureen Walrath
This Is Not About Survival (It’s About Bringing Your Coracle)
A deep breath in deep time: a call for reinhabiting the Mississippi canebrake.
Reflection, Storytelling, Landscape, Agriculture, Water, Memory
- contributionSarah Lewison, Andrew Yang
Reshaping the Shape
Intervention, Storytelling, Economy, Landscape, Human-animal relations, Water, Aesthetics
- contributionRyan Griffis
The Great Green Desert
Input by Ryan Griffis on the collaborative film project A Great Green Desert which focuses on the agricultural practice of monocropping
Biodiversity, Landscape, Ecology
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Lake Itasca, Minnesota, USA
Mapping, Aesthetics, Imaginary, Landscape
- contributionJennifer Colten, Jesse Vogler
Significant and Insignificant Mounds: an Essay
Deciphering the cosmology of artificial hills—from the Cahokia Mounds to the slag heaps of today.
Storytelling, Landscape, Deep time, History, Local knowledge, Anthropology, Colonialism
- projectNicole Boivin, Ricardo Fernandes, Gayle Fritz, Natalie Mueller, Patrick Roberts, Robert N. Spengler
The Early Rise of North America's Dominant Crop
How have early agricultural practices shaped and altered the environment of the Mississippi? This research project turns to the cultivation of maize to tackle this question.
Field Study, Case Study, Agriculture, Ecology, Landscape, History
- projectRobert N. Spengler, Natalie Mueller
Ancient Bison Herds of the American Midwest and the Domestication of the Lost Crops
How did the ancestors of early agricultural crops spread across space? A research project on the influence of animals on human farming practices.
Field Work, Human-animal relations, Deep time, Agriculture, Landscape, History, Biodiversity
- projectBrandi Bethke, William Taylor, Sarah Trabert
Horses, Donkeys, and the Anthropocene in the Greater Mississippi
Field Work, Human-animal relations, Landscape, Biodiversity
- contributionMichael Allen
How Not What—Power, Time & Landscape
“Property is the worst form of pollution.” A lecture performance on the landscapes of the American Bottom.
Reflection, Pollution, Landscape
- contributionLynn Peemoeller
Eating the Anthropocene
How can we encounter ourselves in the Anthropocene? A study in the deconstruction of cows and an introduction to “The Lost Crops of America” project.
Field Study, Extinction, Biodiversity, Agriculture, Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations, Socio-ecological design, History, Deep time, Metabolism, Landscape, Food
- contributionJennifer Colten, Jesse Vogler
Significant and Insignificant Mounds: Presentation
What can the mounds of North America—from temples to landfills—tell us about the history of settlement and the anthropogenic condition we inhabit today?
Reflection, Field Study, Deep time, History, Urbanism, Landscape, Epistemology
- projectIsabelle Carbonell
The Panesthetic River
This project identifies rivers as crucial for investigating representations of the Anthropocene, via the medium of experimental documentary film.
Sensing, Storytelling, Field Study, Aesthetics, Representation, Landscape, Water, Film
- projectEmily Sekine
A Field Diary of the Upper Mississippi, 2019
What modes of collecting, representing, and knowing are appropriate to meet the conceptual and practical challenges of the Anthropocene? Which narrative forms and styles can help us to document states of flux and transformation, across multiple scales of space and time?
Field Study, Representation, Knowledge infrastructure, Epistemology, Naturecultures, Landscape, Human-environment relations, Water, Aesthetics
- projectGavin Kroeber
Domesticating the Anthropocene
The art initiative Laboratory for a Radical Suburbia explores human connections to both land and to the environmental impacts of capitalist cycles of extraction, production, and consumption on that land.
Case Study, Spatial, Urbanism, Capitalism, Water, Landscape, Imaginary, Scenario, Local knowledge, Knowledge infrastructure
- projectJennifer Colten, Jesse Vogler
Significant and Insignificant Mounds
Significant and Insignificant Mounds looks to read two landscapes across one another in order to complicate our understandings of authenticity, meaning, and form.
Case Study, Storytelling, Reflection, Deep time, History, Time, Anthropology, Landscape, Urbanism, Epistemology, Knowledge transformation, Knowledge infrastructure
- projectMatthew Fluharty, Jennifer Colten
Monsanto Town
Corporate personhood has rearticulated how agricultural giant Monsanto operates legally on the landscape.
Case Study, Field Study, Agriculture, Governance, Policy, Landscape, Capitalism, Biodiversity, History, Ethics
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Field Station 2 | Walking and Learning the Land
The third day of the seminar heads outdoors to explore the landscape on foot and to consider the ways of knowing that such embodied inquiry allows.
Case Study, Storytelling, Deep time, History, Equality, Agency, Landscape, Agriculture, Settler Colonialism, Knowledge infrastructure, Care
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Field Station 2 | Unsettling Anthropocene Landscapes
Opening day of the traveling seminar Over the Levee, Under the Plow, which situates the escalating environmental crisis of the Anthropocene Midwest within settler colonial histories and narratives.
Case Study, Reflection, Storytelling, History, Local knowledge, Landscape, Violence, Agriculture, Agency, Climate change, Care, Knowledge infrastructure, Indigenous Rights, Settler Colonialism
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Field Station 2 | Restoring the Land
Day two of Over the Levee, Under the Plow takes place at the Kickapoo Valley Reserve. Examining Native and non-Native practices of conservation, this full day of seminars will work through the multivalent meanings of the term “restoration”.
Case Study, Storytelling, Reflection, History, Local knowledge, Agriculture, Landscape, Water, Resilience, Flood, Engineering, Metabolism, Biodiversity, Settler Colonialism, Glaciation, Environmental Justice
- contributionRyan Griffis
Sacrifice Zones and Portable Climate
How has the extraction of coal throughout Illinois changed the local landscapes and living conditions? A field trip to the Middle Fork of the Vermillion River examined both the intentional as well as unintended, or “feral,” consequences and responses to the practice of coal mining.
Field Study, Mining, Landscape, Ecology
- projectNicholas Brown, Ryan Griffis, Sarah Kanouse
Over the Levee, Under the Plow
A traveling seminar on the relations between settler colonialism, racial capitalism, and environmental concerns in the Upper Midwest territory.
Case Study, Field Study, Storytelling, History, Agriculture, Violence, Capitalism, Landscape, Settler Colonialism, Race, Agency, Environmental Justice, Indigenous Rights
- projectNicholas Brown, Ryan Griffis, Sarah Kanouse
Field Station 2: Anthropocene Drift
What is the relation between large-scale agriculture and biome change? An examination of the infrastructure of the monocrop industry in the Midwestern United States.
Field Study, Field Work, Agriculture, Landscape, Water, Capitalism, Commodities, Anthropology, Local knowledge, Ecology, History, Violence, Sustainability, Topography, Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Rights, Environmental Justice
- projectIvo Louro, Iñigo Sanchez, Daniel Paiva, Margarida Mendes, Brandon Labelle
Seminar: The Sonic Ecology of the Tourist City
This seminar invites participants to reflect on what it means to listen to the Anthropocene by way of a situated case: the touristification of Lisbon.
Sound, Landscape, Human-environment relations, Agency, Tourism
- projectSophia Roosth, Arren Bar-Even, Luis Campos, Helena Shomar, knowbotiq, Fred Hystère, Angi Nend, Claudia de Serpa Soares, Nicolas Buzzi, Pablo Alarcón
Seeds
The technological dissolution between internal and external conditions for life is manifest in the way seeds are handled. A series of conversations explores the practices and ideologies behind the collapse of modification and mutation. A subsequent performance of micro-processions will conjure historical and current moments of the agro-industrial technosphere.
Conversation, Engagement, Intervention, Sensing, Storytelling, Teaching, Agriculture, Biosphere, Degradation, Calculation, Ecology, Environmental Justice, Extraction, Human-environment relations, Embodiment, Landscape, Life, Plantation, Water, Waste, Toxicity, Pollution
- contributionAxel Braun
Towards an Understanding of Anthropocene Landscapes
Artist and photographer Axel Braun collects case studies on contentious infrastructure projects in order to trace humanity’s development as a geological force.
Case Study, Infrastructure, Landscape
- contributionJeremy Bolen, Brian Holmes, Andrew Yang
Walk About It
This event series by Deep Time Chicago aims for a scientific and artistic approach to nature which is based on lived experiece.
Field Work, Deep time, Spatial, Landscape, Human-environment relations, Urban
- projectLino Camprubí, Zachary Caple, Gregory T. Cushman, Heather Davis, Scott Gabriel Knowles, Arno Rosemarin, Frank Uekötter, Katrina Schwartz
Phosphorus: An Apparatus of the Technosphere
Within the technosphere, earth becomes energy, people become populations and space becomes sphere. But how to make visible this network of flows coursing through our bodies?
Communicating, Intervention, Conversation, Reflection, Storytelling, Teaching, Anthropos, Agriculture, Biosphere, Capitalism, Critical materials, Degradation, Complexity, Commodities, Embodiment, Energy, Landscape, Mining, Waste, Violence, Technosphere
- contributionSøren Dahlgaard
Mobile Hedges
The Mobile Hedges (2011) was a public space urban art intervention, designed to create temporary spaces for people to socialize on the famous city square designed by Oscar Niemeyer.
Reflection, Naturecultures, Architecture, Landscape
- projectElena Bougleux, Arno Brandlhuber, Erle C. Ellis, Tobias Hönig, Natalie Jeremijenko
Seminar: Anthropogenic Landscapes
Anthropogenic Landscapes ground us in the Anthropocene. They connect us with the land and the ecologies we shape, inhabit, and make use of, as they stress how intimately we are creating the planet that is recursively creating us. A fieldtrip to the former VEB Elektrokohle (People’s Enterprise Electro-coal) in Berlin-Lichtenberg helped us to observe, study, and reshape the shift from the larger context down to the local.
Human-environment relations, Time, Landscape, Urbanism
- contributionAlly Bisshop
Sounding Landscapes
A case study on field recordings of the “absence” of a large section of trees that had recently been removed from the site and installed in the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, as part of the gallery’s current exhibition
Case Study, History, Landscape, Aesthetics, Naturecultures
- contributionSøren Dahlgaard
The Hedge
The hedge as an urban barriers
Landscape, Naturecultures
- contributionMelissa Dubbin
White Sands
White Sands is a “heritage site” layered with evidence of the Anthropocene. What does it disclose about the invasion of ecology and human technological innovation?
Landscape, Radioactivity, Human-animal relations
- contributionSara Nelson
Gas Flares in the Bakken Oil Fields, Williston, North Dakota, 2013
A reflection on how drilling and fracking technologies have transformed much of North Dakota and Montana.
Reflection, Case Study, Landscape, Extraction
- contributionMaialen Galarraga (Maia), Hugh Tuffen
Anthropos in the Lakes
How can we ge beyond a Romantic ideal of nature? A visual narration on representations of nature.
Case Study, Human-environment relations, Landscape
- contributionMaria Isabel Pérez Ramos
On Fences: A Collage
A collection of thoughts and reflections on fences
Reflection, Migration, Landscape
- contributionHugo Reinert
The Fence Concept
Notes on the concept of the fency and its heterogenic meaning
Reflection, Landscape
- projectElena Bougleux
A Scattered World View: Anthropogenic Visions Developed by Participants’ Assignments
A series of case studies on anthropogenic landscapes
Case Study, Scale, Waste, Climate change, Landscape
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Seminar Report: Anthropogenic Landscapes
A reflection on multidimensional and multi-temporal epistemological perspectives required to comprehend and analyze the Anthropocene.
Reflection, Landscape, History, Architecture
