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Repairing Open School Environmental Justice
Practicing (?) Environmental Justice
Sam Wegner

January 23, 2024
What is environmental justice? Is it a movement? Is it an outcome? What follows is my thought process on how environmental justice fits (or doesn’t) into bottom-up and top-down spaces; and how young people should seek to understand it.
Open School Crossing Welcoming Repairing River Semester
River Semester Map and Daily Blog
River Semester

December 09, 2023
From August 28 - December 9, 2023, the River Semester travelled downstream with stops at river hubs along the way. Follow their progress as they travel downstream.
Welcoming Open School Crossing Repairing
Reflections on Confluence 2
Ebru Bodur
Nick Karpinski
Kendra Keefer
Ashish Kumar

September 28, 2023
From May 25th to May 28th, 2023, the Mississippi River Open School gathered in the Twin Cities for Confluence 2. These four reflections are a multi-faceted portrait of the Confluence.
Repairing
Mutual Earthly Delights
Stephanie Lindquist

July 26, 2023
At the core of a just transition must be a cultural shift to respect water, earth, and all non-human beings. To recognize our delicate position within creation and honor and respect its limits.
Crossing Repairing
Spirituality and Ecology: (Re)Membering Black Women’s Legacies
Ebony Aya

July 10, 2023
I no longer have to be cut off from my being. I no longer have to be cut off from the earth.
Repairing Mining Extraction Infrastructure Water Talon Metals
Infrastructuring Inequality: Investigations of a Proposed Nickel Mine in Northern Minnesota
Alix Johnson

July 11, 2023
Educating the public and students about a controversial underground nickel mine in Tamarack, Minnesota to fuel the transition to electric vehicle (EV) drivership.
Open School Indigenous Science and Cosmology Learning from Place Fort Snelling Bdote
A River, Both Warm and Cool
Nelson Mondale

June 22, 2023
This conflict of observational processes and ways of thinking have led to centuries of invalidation of Indigenous science, which, as mentioned many times by Ethan, has proved again and again to offer observations that put one in harmony …
Open School Slavery Violence Landscape Architecture Virtual
Shifting Landscapes: Urban Enslavement in Antebellum New Orleans
Walter Greason

February 08, 2023
Students and faculty around the world began to create new virtual and augmented reality projects like Sojourners' Trail - the first interactive, Afrofuturist classroom game. Sojourners' Trail featured a time-traveling framework to explore …
Welcoming Crossing Open School Teaching Experiential Water Conversation
Water Language: A Conversation with Shanai Matteson and Oscar Tuazon
Shanai Matteson
Oscar Tuazon

November 14, 2022
From the Iron Range in Minnesota’s Northern reaches to industrial farming in the South, to the strength and vibrancy of its Native reservations, it’s impossible to write about rural Minnesota as a singular place. While urban areas …
Open School Teaching Storytelling Experiential River Semester Field Work Education Engagement
Navigating the Anthropocene River
Joe Underhill

October 01, 2022
A traveler’s guide to the (dis)comforts of being at home-in-the-world.
Open School Repairing Engagement Field Study Field Work Reflection Conversation Infrastructure Engineering Speculative
Drawn Together
Aron Chang

November 11, 2022
In designing and operating large-scale infrastructures, humans tend toward fixity—despite increasingly dynamic conditions, such as those at play in the Mississippi River Delta context. The Anthropocene River Campus seminar “Un/bounded …
Monitoring Field Study Sound Experiment Water
Listening to the Mississippi
Monica Moses Haller
Sebastian Müllauer

October 04, 2022
Listening to the Mississippi is an iterative project that has unfolded since 2013 and currently manifests as a sound composition and traveling listening station. Using underwater recordings gathered in 2015 by artists Monica Haller and …
Repairing
A Big River Continuum
Monique Verdin
Karen Goulet
Rebecca Dallinger

November 14, 2022
From the Iron Range in Minnesota’s Northern reaches to industrial farming in the South, to the strength and vibrancy of its Native reservations, it’s impossible to write about rural Minnesota as a singular place. While urban areas …
Welcoming Teaching Food Field Work Biodiversity Engagement Agriculture
Edible Encounters
Lynn Peemoeller

October 04, 2022
Edible Encounters gave us an opportunity to observe the contrast between the wild bursts of biodiversity in the marginal areas along the river and the widespread control of nature exemplified by the endless cornfields in this region. These …
Welcoming Experiment Reflection Storytelling Sound Media
Head Waters at the Headwaters
Jamie Allen
Temporary continent.

October 04, 2022
The United States of America is just under ten million square kilometers in surface area. Its most conterminous landmass is a topology of creases and folds, mountains and ridges, chasms and embankments. These create, among other divides, …
Crossing Storytelling Radioactivity Imaginary Energy
Born Secret
Jeremy Bolen
Brian Holmes

October 05, 2022
The video follows this “Anthropocene mode of production” to its top-secret origin at Oak Ridge Laboratory, where the Manhattan Project drew on hydroelectric power furnished by the river-basin development program of the Tennessee Valley …
Crossing Welcoming Repairing Storytelling Conversation Experiment History Ecology Species
On the Recuperative Mismanagement of a Cosmopolitan Fish
Sarah Lewison
Swan Parsons
Florian Ruland
Alexandra Toland
Andrew Yang

November 14, 2022
To close the opening week of The Shape of a Practice, artists created a convivial meal-at-a-distance with so-called invasive species. From a kitchen in Carbondale, Illinois, artist Sarah Lewison, alongside storyteller and soul food …
Open School
The Shape of a River: Mississippi
Myriel Milićević

October 04, 2022
Students analyzed case studies on the Mississippi, developed their own questions, exchanged with the case study authors, and designed new maps of relationships. The work considered questions such as, what approaches and methods were used …
Crossing Experiment Reflection Storytelling Sound Media
Good River, Bad River, Little River, Big River
Temporary continent.

October 04, 2022
“Mississippi” is a francophone adulteration of Anishinaabe (Ojibwe, Algonquin) name given to the river, indicating something along the lines of how “great” or “big” a river it is. “People are enthralled by it,” Bob Chance, manager of …
Repairing Field Work Settler Colonialism Landscape
After Extraction
Ryan Griffis

October 04, 2022
This field guide combines creative non-fiction and images to depict a partial history of extractive land use in Central Illinois, and is accompanied by a set of exercises, questions, and prompts that act as a tool for learning about the …
Crossing Sensing Violence Extraction Environmental Justice Ecology
The Remote Sensation of Disintegration
Imani Jacqueline Brown

November 21, 2022
Experimental film exploring Louisiana’s ecological bodies and their segregation by extractivism—the process of extracting natural resources from the Earth to sell on the world market—witnessed from the water of the Mississippi River, the …
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