Edgy Stuff: May 2016 Recommendations
May 2016 recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board.
May 2016 recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board.
CHE’s upcoming place-based workshop elicits questions—and several suggestions—about how to navigate a river and its watershed.
A story about sea serpents, water spirits, and how Madison’s lake monster lore invites an ethic of coexistence.
Recent news of restoration work at Niagara Falls provides an opportunity to reflect on how symbolic American landscapes become meaningful despite constant change.
Trash uncovered beneath an 1860s Brooklyn warehouse encourages us to reconsider our contemporary relationship to urban waterfronts.
The Flint water crisis sounds a call not just to address the immediate emergency, but to consider the larger legacies to which it points. We’ve assembled a roundtable of noted scholars to contemplate this history, whose understanding, they suggest, is crucial to any broader solution.
Artists reflect on their collaborative installation and performance on the banks of the Chester River.
How do people encounter water every day in São Paulo, and how can those encounters suggest opportunities for dealing with water’s scarcity?
A hard look at the soft engineering that goes into our beaches.
California’s current drought offers an occasion for rethinking how our relationship to the past can help us confront crisis.