The Anthropocene is a concept in flux and therefore any approach to it must be adaptive, exploratory, and navigational. Appropriately enough, the term curriculum—in its original Latin referring to the course in a race—figures the type of pathway we hope to follow. This course-making is not only about acquiring knowledge. It also cartographically implicates zones to pass through, conceptual beacons with which to guide the movement, and, most importantly, methods and strategies that enable one to make these moves. The curriculum is an attempt to form bridges that allow us to go from contested ideas to the concrete conditions as we confront them in the Anthropocene, giving shape to a “curriculum” in the complete sense of the word: running the circuits of epistemic and aesthetic loops that envelop the techno-cultural existence and operation of this world.

Extract from Nick Houde, Katrin Klingan, Christoph Rosol, Carlina Rossée: “A Curriculum for the Anthropocene. Haus der Kulturen der Welt,” Deep Time Chicago Pamphlet Series, 2016.