The Raritan River is a constantly changing feature of the landscape of New Jersey. As a tidal river, it changes daily. As a geologic feature, it changes its channel with erosion and accretion. The watershed that drains into the river continues to develop, changing the stormwater runoff that fuels the river as engineering simultaneously mitigates and worsens the impacts. Thinking of the Raritan as a static or fixed feature ignores its realities.

In this video clip, Rutgers Landscape Architecture Graduate School student Ana Maria Oliynyk works with AI to mine historic images of the Raritan River at New Brunswick, and engages AI to imagine the future for the Raritan.