The Anthropocene Commons (AC) is a network of researchers, educators, activists, artists and scientists from all over the world working on the Anthropocene, the current time period in which human activities have fundamentally changed the planet. By commoning our skills, knowledge, and resources, the community imagines and explores practices of transformative pedagogies and collective action.
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Mississippi River Open School for Kinship and Social Exchange (2022-2024)
an expansive educational and research collaboration through the formation of five river hubs spanning the river’s headwaters to the Gulf. The Open School engages pressing issues at the intersections of race, environment, and extraction through education, cultural exchange, and action.
The fourth coast, revisited (article)
The author travelled for two and a half months by canoe and other modes of transport down the entire length of the Mississippi River with the Mississippi. An Anthropocene River project. Reflecting on this journey, this essay revisits Catherine Brown and William Morrish’s 1991 essay, The Fourth Coast: An Expedition on the Mississippi River, in
River Semester
Helped build and test double-hulled canoe catamarans for the next iteration of the River Semester.
OVERFLOW (twin cities)
The Mississippi in every state imaginable.
July 24 – October 2, 2021
Data Sensing the Mississippi
Data analysis and visualizations created for the Data Sensing project during the Mississippi. Anthropocene River journey. Analyzing data collected with a home-built data sensing device, two groups have been involved in producing these findings: a collaboration between Ellen Graham and John Kim; and an undergraduate class on remote sensing at Macalester College that is mining the data to uncover correlational findings with public data sets about the Mississippi River valley. The latter analysis is ongoing.
Collective Communities: Actions on Environmental Crises
My classes’ contributions to Collective Communities: Actions on Environmental Crises: a presentation of artist collaboratives, collectives, and cooperatives that are concerned primarily with ecologies in crisis; and while the participating groups possess overlapping interests, their projects and ways of self-organization and self-presentation are distinct. Whether natural, social, or representational, the ecologies that our contributors advocate
The Shape of a Practice
Shape of a Practice
HKW
2020, Oct 26, Mon — 2020, Nov 30, Mon
I was involved in organizing elements of this seminar, including an exhibition based around our work on and about the Mississippi River, entitled The Current.
The Current
On display at HKW
2020, Mon, Oct 26 — 2020, Sun, Nov 01 (early closure because of Covid-19)
Mississippi River Barge
A model of a barge for the Mississippi River Barge project. Very thankful for Molly Reichert’s design studio class at Dunwoody College for taking on this challenge.
