Benjamin Casper is an architect and city planner. He graduated from RWTH (Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule) Aachen in 2008 and has worked as an urban researcher for the Institute for Urban and Regional Planning at RWTH Aachen and at M:AI (Museum für Architektur und Ingenieurkunst). He has also refurbished several kindergartens as a self-employed practicing architect. Following a year abroad in Bangkok (2001–02), he has conducted several projects dealing with the city and has written a Diploma thesis based on a phenomenological investigation of the shop house as a Thai–Chinese building typology in Bangkok. Since the beginning of 2013 he has been a PhD student at the Institute of Geography at the University of Cologne. His thesis deals with the transformability of urban spaces adjacent to waterways (khlong) in Bangkok, with their architectural, urban morphological, spatial, structural, and institutional implications. Benjamin became aware of the Anthropocene following his visit to the GWSP (Global Water System Project) conference in Bonn in May 2013.