Haus der Kulturen der Welt Director Bernd M. Scherer in conversation with Ravi Agarwal and Ranjit Hoskote, co-curators of the State of Nature 2022. The group discuss Scherer’s contribution to the transformation of the HKW from an earlier, relatively more ethnographic platform for the understanding of the world’s varied regions to a dynamic forum for the discussion and performative articulation of transcultural themes and urgencies. This shift has been carried out through a number of long-term projects that have unfolded in a collaborative manner, as experiments in ensemble-making, such as Anthropocene Curriculum and The New Alphabet. Scherer will discuss, with his interlocutors, the importance of such durational and polyphonic commitments to contemporary cultural production.