- Aron Chang
- Jelagat Cheruiyot
- Greta Gladney
- Richard Hindle
- Derek Hoeferlin
- Tanya James
- Cyndhia Ramatchandirane
- Jorg Sieweke
- Nikiwe Solomon
Seminar: Un/bounded Engineering and Evolutionary Stability
Human interventions into alluvial flow patterns change the form and path of rivers across the world. This seminar examines the role of engineering river systems toward human aims and the consequences this has on interdependent metabolisms at multiple scales, between the watershed, the city, and the microbe/organism.
Read More- contributionAron Chang, Jelagat Cheruiyot, Jorg Sieweke
Interview: Un/bounded Engineering and Evolutionary Stability
In this interview, Dorothy Cheruiyot, Aron Chang and Jorg Sieweke discuss their research perspectives on “(Un)bounded Engineering and Evolutionary Stability,” which was the topic of a seminar taking place within the framework of the Anthropocene River Campus, 2019.
Conversation, Reflection
- contributionAron Chang
Drawn Together
On drawing as a core methodology, not only to record and understand dynamic conditions but also to devise new approaches and imaginaries for New Orleans and beyond.
Engagement, Field Study, Field Work, Reflection, Conversation, Imaginary, Infrastructure, Adaptation, Complexity, Engineering, Human-environment relations, Sustainability, Speculative
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Program details
Seminar Slot II: November 13–15, 2019
Conveners
Aron Chang (primary organizer)
Dorothy Cheruiyot
Derek Hoeferlin
Jorg Sieweke (primary organizer)
Nikiwe Solomon
Experts
Greta Gladney
Tanya James
Cyndhia Ramatchandirane
Richard Hindle