Mapped Futures, Vanishing Places: On Inheritance at the Water’s Edge
22 minutes
I began thinking about the inheritance of memory not in a classroom or a library, but at the edge of a half-closed moat on Tsukudajima, an artificial ...
(Dis)Empowered Communities: A Conversation with Davide Orsini
by Davide Orsini and Uwe Lübken
20 minutes
Launched in March 2025, Davide’s Volkswagen Foundation Change! project seeks to foster research collaborations between academic and nonacademic partne...Step Away
by Kata Beilin
13 minutes
The time of hard-earned success had arrived, and Eve was receiving more invitations to give presentations than she could possibly accept. Her salary h...Walking a Sicilian River
by Paolo Gruppuso and Erika Garozzo
13 minutes
On the sandy shoreline of eastern Sicily, the Simeto River meets the Ionian Sea against the dramatic backdrop of the volcano Etna. Groves of reeds sur...
Weathered History: Galveston and Extreme Events
17 minutes
Texas had seen rain before, plenty. It had flooded before, many times. But on 25 August 2017, Hurricane Harvey dumped a volume of water never before c...The Slow Death of an Ethiopian Lake
by Hayal Desta
14 minutes
I first had the opportunity to visit Lake Ziway when I studied biology as an undergraduate at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, in the mid-1990s. Loca...Chicago’s Temple of Steel: South Works since 1882
13 minutes
In my childhood on summer days, when my mother took us to the shore of Lake Michigan at the 57th Street Beach, we could easily see the billowing plume...
Spaces of Living in Transformation:
Case Studies for Rethinking the Urban in Munich, Germany
by Urban Environments Initiative (UEI)
3 minutes
This set of videos captures the everyday sights, sounds, and sensations of two spaces of transformation in Munich, Germany. Produced for the Urban Env...Under Another Sky
2 minutes
The Indian village of Piplantri celebrates the birth of every newborn girl by planting 111 trees. In her new film, Under Another Sky, RCC alu...Once Upon a Game Reserve: Sambisa and the Tragedy of a Forested Landscape
5 minutes
The Sambisa Forest, located in Borno State in northeast Nigeria, has become synonymous with Boko Haram terrorism. Boko Haram has waged a bloody war ag...