What We Talk About When We Talk About Place

Bdote Field Trip, Minnesota Humanities Center
Bdote Field Trip, Minnesota Humanities Center

“Place” is central to much of the important work that happens on or around rivers, yet the term is one of the most commonly used and least thought-about words we know. Shanai Matteson has recently written from her perspective as part of the public/community arts collaborative Works Progress about place, about the vexed and rewarding relationships to and with places, about language, and about the complexities of being fully “here.”