Orion
Summer 2024
In this issue of Orion, we look toward a flooded future — with a new perspective.
Lacy Johnson, founder of the Houston flood museum, couldn’t swim until three years ago, when, after a series of floods in her neighborhood, she signed herself up for swimming lessons. Lacy’s experience asks us to consider how we as a species might survive the rising tides all around us: not by seeking higher ground, but by learning to swim.
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing visits a city in Indonesia where floods are smothered by concrete.
We report from Baltimore and lower Manhattan, where efforts are being made to surface underground rivers.
Plus new work from Lulu Miller, Diane Wilson, and Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Summer 2024
In this issue of Orion, we look toward a flooded future — with a new perspective.
Lacy Johnson, founder of the Houston flood museum, couldn’t swim until three years ago, when, after a series of floods in her neighborhood, she signed herself up for swimming lessons. Lacy’s experience asks us to consider how we as a species might survive the rising tides all around us: not by seeking higher ground, but by learning to swim.
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing visits a city in Indonesia where floods are smothered by concrete.
We report from Baltimore and lower Manhattan, where efforts are being made to surface underground rivers.
Plus new work from Lulu Miller, Diane Wilson, and Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Summer 2024
In this issue of Orion, we look toward a flooded future — with a new perspective.
Lacy Johnson, founder of the Houston flood museum, couldn’t swim until three years ago, when, after a series of floods in her neighborhood, she signed herself up for swimming lessons. Lacy’s experience asks us to consider how we as a species might survive the rising tides all around us: not by seeking higher ground, but by learning to swim.
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing visits a city in Indonesia where floods are smothered by concrete.
We report from Baltimore and lower Manhattan, where efforts are being made to surface underground rivers.
Plus new work from Lulu Miller, Diane Wilson, and Aimee Nezhukumatathil