Last week, our class presented our praxis project posters at the Festival of Scholars, a day of conference-style panels, poster sessions, performances, and other displays of student work. For my ENVS 350 poster, titled “Do Fallen Trees Build Character? Postlapsarian Knowledge in a Post-Logging Town,” the most common question I received from poster-viewers was “What […]
Douglas County: Methods & Results
What we found in Douglas County was material so rich and novel that it was overwhelming to choose a quick project to accomplish in a short amount of time. From the drive down I5 to the initial conversations we had with the county commissioners (present and former), my classmates and I found many resonances with […]
Field Trip Lessons: Coping with Loss in Douglas County, Oregon
This weekend, the ENVS 350 class went in an expedition south of Portland to Douglas County, Oregon to investigate theory on the ground. Thus begins our praxis projects, an attempt to apply theory to a real-life real-place real-people context. First, the field trip was FUN. We had a glimpse of the beautiful weather to come […]
Three Situated Approaches to Dams and Earthquakes
The Bonneville Dam is not the only dam that has or will at some point be affected by an earthquake, and it is important to realize this when we create situated projects in order to get the top and bottom of the hourglass. Here are three examples dams that were in some way impacted by […]
Earthquakes, Landslides, & Dams in Multiple Contexts
As we begin our research on the earthquake slated to hit the Pacific Northwest and wreck havoc on many of the structures that predated knowledge and subsequent policy of earthquake preparation, we are constantly reminded that the last earthquake to hit Oregon occurred well before Euro-American settlement. The historic (and subsequent temporal removal) is major […]