Anthony Acciavatti in Conversation with Tim Battelino

Published: April 5, 2019, 4 a.m.

b'MARCH student Tim Battelino speaks with Anthony Acciavatti following the 5th Annual Detlef Mertins Lecture on the Histories of Modernity at the school on March 25, 2019. Anthony Acciavatti is a GSAPP faculty member, historian, cartographer, architect, and author of the award-winning book, Ganges Water Machine: Designing New India\\u2019s Ancient River, the first environmental and urban history of the world\\u2019s most densely populated river basin. \\n"I\'m trying to make almost a graphic biography of these [Ganges River Basin] regions and areas by pairing image and word\\u2026 I\\u2019m always trying to couple what I see with ways to describe and narrate the work that I do, both empirically but also theoretically. Ganges Water Machine in that way was very much an experiment in how to narrate such a vast territory.\\u201d - Anthony Acciavatti'