#Economy

  • dfrazier
    New Orleans, United States

    over 4 years ago 

    During a trip to Marghera, Seminars 1 and 2 stopped at the Centro Culturale Islamico del Bangladesh right before midday prayers. Venice contains one of the largest concentrations of this immigrant community, with several families choosing to migrate on to the United Kingdom.
  • 890331
    Venezia, Veneto, Italy

    over 4 years ago 

    Very interesting lecture by Professor Astrida Neimanis on Weather and Interventions in Social Infrastructure.
    #ACV21
  • 890331
    Venice, Italy

    over 4 years ago 

    First talk by professor Pietro D. Omodeo at the Anthropocene Campus - Venice 2021
  • bsteininger
    New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

    over 6 years ago 

    The seminar ‘commodity flows’ starts with a pedagogic imposition: a two page bureaucratic form. All the colorful commodities (pharmaceuticals, sugar cane, sediments, food, money…) brought to the seminar are categorized and homogenized. It takes quite a while for everyone to fill out the forms, and it generates resistance. Why shall I write down my name here? Does anyone think, this category here could work?
    Great! The more bureaucracy grinds, and the more we feel that, the better. All commodification starts with an imposition like this. There would be no transport of soy or cement or oil on the river without paperwork, and I imagine, real papers are even more crazy that ours!
  • emily.sekine
    Genoa, Wisconsin, USA

    over 6 years ago 

    For some, living along the river signals privilege: freedom, respite, recreation. For others (especially further downriver), it represents precarity: risk, instability, toxicity. How do we make sense of these uneven geographies - and all of the shifting, contradictory gradients in between?
  • temporarycontinent
    St. Louis, Missouri, USA

    over 6 years ago 

    FS3 opens with a tour and event at Continental Cement works and its barge infrasturctures on the Mississippi in St Louis. Industrial and river management dynamics co-shape one another.
  • emily.sekine
    Hannibal, Missouri, USA

    over 6 years ago 

    Visiting Mark Twain’s Cave with the River Semester. According to our guide, the cave used to be home to so many bats that they would form columns stretching from the ceiling to the floor when they slept. Today we didn’t see a single one - just the traces of their presence on the underground walls. Their absence is partly due to the installation of electricity in the cave for tourism. More recently, White Nose Syndrome has been wiping out hibernating bat populations across Norh America. Estimates suggest that at least 80% have been lost.
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