First chapter of the virtual exhibition “Wetland Times,” “Imaginaries.”

The fourth chapter of “Wetland Times,” “Flows.”

Former railway embankment Feldkirchner Tangente—Munich’s “Wild East”? For a short time, this bypass route was used by trains. For a long time, endangered fauna move about undisturbed across the former embankment, rare plants establish themselves, and local people go here for recreation and relaxation.

Vera Krause’s “How to Reimagine Our Doomed Futures Through Ursula K. Le Guin’s Lens: A Case Study in the Argentinian Wetlands” is a sympathetic account of a so-called capybara “invasion” in contemporary Buenos Aires, taking its cue from the anarchist fantasy of Ursula K. Le Guin to show the difference between invading and reclaiming one’s space. It was one of the two honorable mentions in the reflective essay category of the RCC environmental writing competition “Tell the Untold!”