Infrastructures along Illinois & Michigan Canal

Long after the transport along the I&M Canal has ceased, new agents have emerged as they always do.

We consider these agents to be somehow altering and steering the canal corridor to a new stage. In the abandonments of those solid, engineering structures, the technologies still contribute to the environment, making them from infrastructures for transportation, along with other agents, to landscape machines.

Our method is to read the interaction among canal agents and the new canal ecology through symptoms in the landscape. Studying these agents to understand their mechanisms, helps us to understand how the offline canal is still in function in a number of ways.