Project: Down in the Dumps

Indianapolis, IN

Students in Dr. Kryder-Reid’s Fall 2022 Issues in Cultural Heritage class at IUPUI developed StoryMaps focusing on 5 sites in Indianapolis that explore the city’s toxic heritage and its intersections with its social history.

Indianapolis Toxic Sites and Community Treasures
Digging Deeper into Indianapolis’ Combined Sewer System
What’s Really in Fall Creek?
Riverside Racism: Segregation at Riverside Amusement Park
Life and Times of Site 0153: An Instagram Photoblog
Swimming in Fall Creek: A Timeline of Community Action and Resistance
Charting Inequity: An Indianapolis Map of Environmental Injustice

Indianapolis Toxic Heritage Collection

Leadlining
Critical Incompetence: The 1994 Central Soya Plant Explosion
Welcome to Sunshine Gardens
Down in the Dumps
Rising from the Soot
Coal Ash and the Toxic Legacy of Fossil Capital
Environment and Race
A Malodorous, Septic Stream