Seminar: Anthropogenic Landscapes
Anthropogenic Landscapes ground us in the Anthropocene by connecting 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 flash fieldwork trip 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.
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Prologue
Through the centuries humans have interfered with the landscape and have transformed it. What can an anthropogenic landscape teach us about the interaction between ecological, social, cultural, and economic systems? Elena Bougleux, Erle Ellis, and Arno Brandlhuber are searching for an interdisciplinary approach to these concerns.
Résumé
- 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
- projectJeremy Bolen, Elena Bougleux, Tobias Hönig
The Lichtenberg Case
Field work at the former VEB Elektrokohle Lichtenberg, a site characterized by industrial debris and self-made entrepreneurship
Case Study, Field Work, History, Migration
Contributors
Participants
Maialen Galarraga (Maia)
Ally Bisshop
Jeremy Bolen
Guido Caniglia
Zachary Caple
Benjamin Casper
Enrico Costanzo
Søren Dahlgaard
Seth Denizen
Jonathan F. Donges
Paz Guevara
Michael Jakob
Maya Kóvskaya
Jonas Loh
Chip Lord
Mahrizal Mahrizal
Ben Mendelsohn
Enrico Giustiniano Micheli
Navjot Altaf Mohamedi
John Moran
Marta Niepytalska
Eric Paglia
Sascha Pohflepp
Christopher Reznich
Marc Schleunitz
Annegret Schmidt
Isabell Schrickel
Emily Eliza Scott
Francesco Sebregondi
Emanuele Serrelli
Jorg Sieweke
Hendricus Andy Simarmata
Anna-Sophie Springer
Anna Lillie Svensson
Yesenia Thibault-Picazo
Zev Trachtenberg
Marija Uzunova
Helge Wendt
Thilo Wiertz
Andrew Yang
Pinar Yoldas
