Imprint
The Anthropocene Curriculum is an international long-term project for experimental forms of Anthropocene research and education developed and initiated by Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW, Berlin) and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG, Berlin) in 2013.
Between 2013 and 2022, the development and organization of the project lay with the Department of Literature and Humanities at HKW in collaboration with the research cluster “Anthropocene Formations” at MPIWG and further involved various initiatives and partner institutions worldwide. During this period the project was funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media due to a ruling of the German Bundestag, and the Federal Foreign Office.
The Anthropocene Curriculum website archive will now be maintained by the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, with continuing activities of the wider network taking place with a decentralized approach, as the Anthropocene Commons.
Anthropocene Curriculum Archive 2024–
Editors: Georg N. Schäfer, Christoph Rosol
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Anthropocene Curriculum Archive 2023–2024
Editors: Georg N. Schäfer, Christoph Rosol
Editorial Management: Lindy Divarci
Student Editors: Janu Höreth, Irina Kokoshko, Anna Maria Rilke, Astrid Schühle
Anthropocene Curriculum 2013–2022
Funded by:
Bernd Scherer, Director, Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Jürgen Renn, Director, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, DEPT I
Project Head, Artistic Lead: Katrin Klingan, Curator and Head of the Department for Literature and Humanities, HKW
Scientific Lead: Christoph Rosol, Research Scholar at MPIWG, Research Associate HKW
Coordination and Program Development: Carlina Rossée
The Anthropocene Curriculum cooperates with the Anthropocene Working Group of the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy of the International Commission on Stratigraphy.
The following projects have been developed by HKW and MPIWG in collaboration with numerous partners world-wide:
Mississippi. An Anthropocene River 2018 – 2019
Technosphere 2015 – 2019
Anthropocene Lectures 2017 – 2018
The Anthropocene Project 2013 – 2014
The following international projects have been developed by the international partners in the framework of the Anthropocene Curriculum:
Anthropocene Campus Philadelphia
Website Concept and Realization
Published by Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG). Content creation in collaboration with numerous partners. For details please see the respective project pages.
Website Team
Editors-in-chief: Katrin Klingan, Christoph Rosol
Online Editor: Fiona Shipwright
Assistant Online Editor: Lorna McDowell
Development Coordination: Jonas Rinderlin, Mira Witte
Concept and Realization: Nick Houde, Katrin Klingan, Christoph Rosol, Carlina Rossée with Manuela Kölke, Fiona Shipwright, Neli Wagner, Mira Witte, Astrid Zimmermann (Assistance), and Thomas Turnbull
Editorial Assistance: Jemma Rowan Deer, Andreas Doepke, Melissa Canbaz, Anujah Fernando
Copyediting: Fiona Shipwright, Jaclyn Arndt, Amanda Gomez
Planning and Management: Evi Chantzi
Consulting: Jörg Eichhorn (KBB IT), Dirk Wintergrün (MPIWG)
Design & Programming: Alan Woo
Department of Literature and Humanities (HKW)
Head: Katrin Klingan
Research Associates: Nick Houde, Christoph Rosol
Dramaturgy and Scenography: Janek Müller
Co-Curation & Coordination Art Projects: Neli Wagner
Coordination Anthropocene Curriculum, Program Development: Carlina Rossée
Project Assistance Anthropocene Curriculum Network: Megan Black, Kerstin Kessler
Coordination of individual projects: Julia Büki, Evi Chantzi, Anna Chwialkowska, Niklas Hofmann-Walbeck, Manuela Kölke, Anna Sophie Luhn, Virág Major-Kremer, Carlina Rossée with Manuela Kölke, Georg Schäfer, Johanna Schindler, Neli Wagner, Mira Witte
Project Assistance for individual projects: Arianna Cecchetto, Andreas Doepke, Anujah Fernando, Ana Maria Guzmán Olmos, Pia Lohmann, Sophia Lohmann, Sonja Mattes, Martin Naundorf, Liona Neubert, Lesia Prokopenko, Marlene Schenk, Olga Starostina, Astrid Zimmermann
Department Program Coordination: Doris Hegner, Cordula Hamschmidt, Niklas Hoffmann-Walbeck (Assistance)
Production: Quirin Wildgen (Head), Claudia Peters, Nadja Hermann, Raphael Bruning (Assistance), Martin Naundorf (Assistance)
Finance and Administration: Holger Schulz, Martina Schrammek
Processing: Eva Hiller
Organization: Angelika Reiss, Liona Neubert, Friederike Becker, Pia Lohmann (Assistance), Jule Benz (Assistance), Johannes Reiss (Assistance)
Research Cluster Anthropocene Formations (MPIWG)
Head of Department: Jürgen Renn
Group Leader: Christoph Rosol
Group Members involved: Ian Gray, Giulia Rispoli, Georg N. Schäfer, Thomas Turnbull, Dirk Wintergrün
Finance and Administration: Birgitta von Mallinckrodt, Lina Schwab
Technical Department (HKW)
As of December 2022
Technical Director: Mathias Helfer
Technical Assistance: Martin Gräff
Head of Audiovisual Media Engineering: Jan Proest
Audiovisual Media Engineering: Andreas Durchgraf, Simon Franzkowiak, Matthias Hartenberger,
Turi Agostino, Felix Podzwadowski, Felix Weck
Head of Event Engineering: Benjamin Pohl
Head of Lighting: Adrian Pilling
Lighting technican and board operator: Bastian Heide, Leonardo Rende, Eduardo Adao Abdala
Stage Crew Chief: Benjamin Brandt
Stage: Frederick Langkau, Jason Dorn, Carsten Palme, Nicholas Tanton, Dominik Grzeszczuk, Antek Krawzcyk; Felix Weck
Head of Exhibition Building and Construction: Gernot Ernst
Assistance: Christine Andersen
Employees: Elisabeth Sinn, Miles Chalcraft, Oliver Dehn, Marcos Garcia Peréz, Martin Gehrmann, Daniel Gierlich, Viktor Haberkorn, Achim Haigis, Matthias Henkel, Stefan Höhne, Bart Huybrechts, Joshua Jakob, Ivan Jovanovic, Ricardo Lashley, Anne Lelievre, Simon Lupfer, Sladjan Nedeljkovic, Leila Okanovic, Lucas Recchione, Lukas Reichart, Ralf Rose, Andrew Schmidt, Nanako Seitz, Stefan Seitz, Rosalie Sinn, Ali Sözen, Norio Takasugi, Sophia Vogelsberg, Christian Vontobel, Gesa Witt
IT: Ronny Held
Department of Communications and Cultural Education (HKW)
As of December 2022
Head: Daniel Neugebauer
Editorial Office: Franziska Wegener, Sabine Willig, Anna Etteldorf, Amaya Gallegos, Moritz Müller
Digital Editorial Office: Karen Khurana, Jan Köhler, Kristin Drechsler, Elinor Lazar, Anna Leonie Grimm, Laura Wichmann
Press Office: Jan Trautmann, Lutz Breitinger, Laura Mühlbauer
Public Relations: Susanne Held, Sabine Westemeier
Documentation Office: Svetlana Bierl, Pakorn Duriyaprasit, Marlen Mai, Clara Molau, Josephine Schlegel
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Matthias Pees (Director Berliner Festspiele)
Mariette Rissenbeek (Director Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin)
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Chairwoman of Supervisory Board
Claudia Roth MdB
Minister of State for Culture and the Media
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Between 2013-2022 the Anthropocene Curriculum was developed by Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW, Berlin) and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG, Berlin), in collaboration with many partners worldwide. The website archive is now maintained by the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology.