Anthropocene
Curriculum

Macarena Gómez-Barris immerses herself in Earth’s archive of wreckage as a way of exploring what accountability might look like in the present.

Comparing the approaches to radioactive fallout in the US and USSR, Kate Brown retraces the ways in which radio biologists and ecologists assessed and contorted radioactive contamination to study the resilience of ecosystems and human bodies.

This seminar engages the complicated entanglements of property claims that cut across the social, racial, and ecological landscapes of the Mississippi Delta, as they pertain to the Anthropocene.

L. Sasha Gora takes a moth-eaten dress as a starting point for a meditation on eating and care.

This seminar brings concepts of time, layers, and sediment into close contact with the human sciences, the arts, and Pierre Part, a community who live according to the movements of the River.

Matthew C. Wilson traverses ancient prehistory to speculative futures, meditating on the chancy throughlines that make up the world as we know it.

Does habitability today requires not the building up of more knowledge, but rather the relinquishing, forgetting, or disinheriting of knowledge?

The Cosmic Conversations project brings together researchers from across disciplines to discuss ecological, artistic, political, and philosophical issues related to Anthropocene research.

What does it mean to live in a city already deemed “unsavable” and why is the contemporary art made in Miami that deals directly with climate change often so innocuous?

A reflection on the contemporary conflicts in Myanmar and Ukraine, offering three perspectives on the trauma of war and possibilities for repair.

Louise Carver examines what is broken about neoliberal capitalist modes of repair in the context of the Anthropocene.

A conversation about repair, drawing on experiences from East Germany and South Africa.

Press material on the AWG, Crawford Lake, as well as the collaboration between the AWG, HKW and MPIWG.

How do different forms of societal organization and land use over the centuries affect the environment on local and planetary levels?

What alliances and common questions can help to work toward a science of partnerships, especially in processes that include more-than-human entities?

The Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) is an interdisciplinary geoscience research group dedicated to the investigation of the chronostratigraphic reality of the Anthropocene. The AWG was established in 2009 by the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (SQS), a component body of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), the committee that oversees the standards and requirements for the ongoing review and further completion of the geologic time scale.

The geological time scale and the work of the Anthropocene Working Group.

A conversation with Jan Zalasiewicz on the geological Anthropocene research.

Through a close reading and contextualization of material evidence of planetary upheaval, the yearlong program Evidence & Experiment gathers material testimonies of the Anthropocene stratum.

What is the new geological epoch made of? Unearthing the Present connected the geological analysis of the present with a discussion of the changing scope for social and political agency.

Where is the Planetary? is a collective search for models of living together on Earth.

An in progress digital publication resulting from the artistic installation presented at HKW by Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke with the scientists of the AWG.

In the fall of 2022, AC initiatives from around the world came together to envision a transformed future for the long-term collaboration of the network.