TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Hoeferlin, Derek
TI  - The Watershed Architecture of the Mississippi River Basin
PY  - 2021///
PB  - sage
KW  - interdisciplinary collaboration,
KW  - river basin management,
KW  - trans-boundary
KW  -  water-based design methodology,
KW  - watershed architecture
N2  - Designers have a three-part responsibility owed to their object of study: to appreciate, to speculate, and to collaborate. This is particularly true for the professional engagement with spaces on the scale of river basins which impact and prioritize certain design decisions on a whole different level. Adequate responses to the ongoing transformations brought forward by large-scale anthropogenic stressors across entire river systems cannot continue to be dominated with hardline and static interventions. Rather, there is a need for alternative outsets, one that begins to design with adaptive and dynamic negotiations. By looking at the example of the Mississippi River Basin, this essay proposes a new integrated water-based design methodology titled “Way Beyond Bigness: The Need for a Watershed Architecture,” an interdisciplinary strategy to rethink the management of river systems for a sustainable future
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/2053019621989080
ER  -