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image credit: Hadley Fruits, courtesy Exhibit Columbus
image credit: Hadley Fruits, courtesy Exhibit Columbus
image credit: Hadley Fruits, courtesy Exhibit Columbus
image credit: Hadley Fruits, courtesy Exhibit Columbus
image credit: Hadley Fruits, courtesy Exhibit Columbus
image credit: Hadley Fruits, courtesy Exhibit Columbus
image credit: Hadley Fruits, courtesy Exhibit Columbus
image credit: Hadley Fruits, courtesy Exhibit Columbus
image credit: Hadley Fruits, courtesy Exhibit Columbus
image credit: Hadley Fruits, courtesy Exhibit Columbus
image credit: Hadley Fruits, courtesy Exhibit Columbus
image credit: Derek Hoeferlin, Nathan Stanfield
image credit: Derek Hoeferlin, Nathan Stanfield
image credit: Derek Hoeferlin, Nathan Stanfield
Location:
Columbus, Indiana
Type:
Installation at Exhibit Columbus: New Middles
Curators:
Iker Gil, Mimi Zeiger
Construction:
Painted and sealed CNC'd Foam, vinyl, polycarbonate, painted plywood
Installation Team:
Derek Hoeferlin (lead designer), Nathan Stanfield (primary research assistant), Joel Leon, Weicong Huang, Qianshan Hu, Lindsey Compeaux (research assistants), Gregory Cuddihee (shop technician/design consultant)
"Watershed Weekend" Team:
Derek Hoeferlin (team lead), Nathan Stanfield, Angie Tillges, Monique Verdin, Paul Wu
Recognition:
Derek Hoeferlin invited participant as 2020-2021 University Design Research Fellow, representing Washington University in St. Louis
Published in Way Beyond Bigness: The Need for a Watershed Architecture, Anthropocene Review, Landscape Architecture Magazine, Archinect, Architectural Record, Wallpaper, The Architect's Newspaper, among several other media outlets
Videos featuring Tracing Our Mississippi:
Exhibition Duration:
August-November, 2021
Funding:
Exhibit Columbus
Washington University in St. Louis: Sam Fox School Creative Activity Research Grant, "The Divided City" Mellon Foundation Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship, Walter B. Kromm Endowed Internship
Project Description:
“Tracing Our Mississippi” was an interactive installation with public programming at the site of the Columbus Pump House, on a terrace adjacent to the East Fork of the White River. By representing the Mississippi Watershed as a large-scale, abstracted model (composed as a set of moveable pieces), the installation emphasized the relentless infrastructures controlling the Mississippi’s landscapes, communities, and resources.
“Tracing Our Mississippi” translates Hoeferlin's Mississippi River Basin Atlas research into three-dimensions. It is intentionally abstracted, vertically exaggerated by 200 times and constructed 800,000 times smaller than the actual basin size. The model organizes into multiple portions and is a giant puzzle of sorts: 1) Missouri River Basin; 2) Arkansas-White-Red River Basin; 3) Lower Mississippi River Basina; and, 4) Upper Mississippi River Basin; and, 5) Ohio & Tennessee River Basins.
Layers of information overlay on and embed within the exaggerated topographies, levees and levee protected areas that are finished in white. Layers include: locks, dams, spillways and floodways as red monoliths, oil and natural gas pipeline networks as red dash-dot lines, ancestral tribal lands as solid black lines, state boundaries as black squares, and state names and cities as black labels.
Amplifying methods of control, the installation asks: “Is the Mississippi Watershed really a watershed anymore?” In such a context, what does it mean to empower all of us to question our past methods of control and power, with the hope of re-establishing new, collective understandings, in turn connecting all of us across ecological and cultural geographies? What would it mean to re-trace our Mississippi?
For more detailed information:
https://exhibitcolumbus.org/2021-exhibition/university-design-research-fellowship/derek-hoeferlin
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