Architect and urbanist Nikos Katsikis describes the assemblage of “operational landscapes” that are tied to the Mississippi basin.

Drawing upon the methods employed by the Commodity Flows seminar of the Anthropocene River Campus in New Orleans, architect and urbanist Nikos Katsikis describes the assemblage of “operational landscapes” that are tied to the Mississippi basin. As Katsikis’ mappings of different flows demonstrate, over the course of several centuries, this—inherently flawed—logic of operationalization has seen the Mississippi transformed into one of the many dynamic “hinterlands” of the Anthropocene.