November 11, 2014
Seminar: Filtering the Anthropocene
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The Anthropocene lens acts as a “filter”: it emphasizes some elements of the socio-ecological spectrum even as it screens out certain others. But how exactly does the idea of the Anthropocene shape understandings and actions about human‒environmental relations? An awareness of these filters is essential for acting ethically and effectively in response to the challenges confronting us. (...)
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Anthropocene Curriculum
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Berlin, Germany
The Anthropocene Curriculum began in 2013 as a long-term initiative exploring frameworks for critical knowledge and education in our ongoing transition into a new, human dominated geological epoch—the Anthropocene. The project has drawn together heterogeneous knowledge practices, inviting academics, artists, and activists from around the world to co-develop curricular experiments that collectively respond to this crisis of the customary. It has done so by producing experimental co-learning situations and research possibilities for transdisciplinary collaboration that are capable of explicitly tackling the epistemic and geo-social dimensions of knowledge that are at stake in this new epoch.