SITUATING FLYOVER TERRITORY: Operational Landscapes of the American Interior
2017 Research Scholarship, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
2026 Revisited during a residency at MASSIA, Estonia
Fieldwork Location: Great Lakes, Great Plains, and Mississippi River Corridor, USA
An ongoing investigation of the American interior, examining how overlapping cultural, institutional, ecological, infrastructural, and economic systems produce different geographies of the same place.
SITUATING FLYOVER TERRITORY: Operational Landscapes of the American Interior is an ongoing research project examining how overlapping cultural, institutional, ecological, infrastructural, and economic systems produce different geographies of the American interior. Through cartography, fieldwork, photography, and territorial observation, it reads the Midwest, Great Plains, Great Lakes, Rust Belt, Heartland, and “flyover country” not as fixed regions, but as shifting and overlapping territories shaped by perception, administration, environment, infrastructure, markets, and everyday life. Revisited in 2026 as a seven-part territorial atlas, the project argues that the American interior is neither peripheral nor empty, but a complex working landscape whose boundaries are multiple rather than fixed.
A larger territorial atlas is currently in development.