Keyword: Future
- projectKatrin Klingan, Georg N. Schäfer, Giulia Bruno, Simon Turner, Armin Linke, Niklas Hoffmann-Walbeck, J. Rowan Deer
Geology of the Present Publication
The transition from the Holocene to the Anthropocene is turning geology into a social science. Researchers and artists grapple with stratigraphic materials and the challenges of in planetary knowledge production.
Archiving, Conversation, Storytelling, Consensus Building, Care, Climate change, Future, Human-environment relations, Stratigraphy, Knowledge production, Knowledge transformation, Deep time
- projectLucio De Capitani, Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Cristina Baldacci, Shaul Bassi
Venice and the Anthropocene: An Ecocritical Guide
Published in 2022, this experimental guide to Venice forms a new, illuminating and disturbing mosaic of the water city and its Lagoon.
Field Study, Engagement, Reflection, Mapping, Water, Extinction, Flood, Climate change, Human-environment relations, History, Urbanism, Disaster, Future
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Onboarding & Exchange—Anthropocene Commons
Join us online for an exchange on projects, upcoming events, and ways to engage with the Anthropocene Commons network.
Consensus Building, Conversation, Engagement, Intervention, Network, Knowledge infrastructure, Knowledge production, Complexity, Scale, Future
- contributionMatthew C. Wilson
A Drift
Matthew C. Wilson traverses ancient prehistory to speculative futures, meditating on the chancy throughlines that make up the world as we know it.
Storytelling, Reflection, Engagement, Mapping, Evolution, History, Future, Speculative, Life, Species
- contributionFernando Silva e Silva, Alyne Costa, Jahnavi Phalkey, Lucio De Capitani, Emiliano Guaraldo, Sarah Lewison, Jacob Lindgren, Carlina Rossée, Jamie Allen, Jeremy Bolen, Brian Holmes
Collaborative Practice on a Changing Planet
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.
Communicating, Consensus Building, Conversation, Engagement, Experiment, Field Work, Mapping, Modeling, Intervention, Future, Consensus, Evolution, Extinction, Complexity, Topography, Knowledge infrastructure, Knowledge production, Local knowledge, Network
- contributionKat Austen, Juliana A. Ivar do Sul, Jérôme Kaiser, Joana MacLean, Georg N. Schäfer
What’s So Micro About Plastics?
What does the Baltic Sea drill core reveal about microplastics and the difficulty of defining their sources? Part of Unearthing the Present in May 2022.
Teaching, Biosphere, Commodities, Critical materials, Degradation, Education, Future, Human-environment relations, Ocean, Pollution, Sedimentation
- contributionBenjamin Johnson
Closed Chemical Cycles
It’s possible that the most suitable golden spike for marking the beginning of the Anthropocene does not yet exist.
Reflection, Carbon, Energy, Deep time, Economy, Engineering, Future, Governance, System
- contributionMark Williams, Francine M.G. McCarthy, Alejandro Cearreta, Martin J. Head, Reinhold Leinfelder, Jens Zinke, Anthony D. Barnosky, Kristine L. DeLong
Biological and Paleontological Signatures of the Anthropocene
Lakes, seas, estuaries, and wetlands provide important archives of humanity’s reconfiguration of life in the Anthropocene.
Field Work, Biosphere, Deep time, Extinction, Evolution, History, Scale, Stratigraphy, Future
- contributionIan Fairchild, Alejandro Cearreta, Colin Summerhayes, Agnieszka Gałuszka, Michael Wagreich
The Anthropocene Signal Amidst the Noise
Field Work, Deep time, Future, Scale, Stratigraphy
- contributionNéstor Herran
Monitoring the Nuclear Anthropocene
Knowledge of the onset of the Anthropocene is intimately connected to nuclear technoscience on the one hand and to the governance of environmental problems, such as atmospheric pollution, on the other.
Case Study, Monitoring, Disaster, Epistemology, Ethics, Future, Governance, Technoscience, Scale
- contributionNina Canell and Robin Watkins
Silurian Harvest
Artists Nina Canell and Robin Watkins recover the deep-time aquatic past of the limestone environment that formed the island of Gotland and delineate the temporal entanglements between ancient life creation and modern-day living.
Sensing, Field Work, Aesthetics, Critical materials, Deep time, Degradation, Future, Economy, History, Human-environment relations, Sedimentation
- contributionKillian Quigley
Reading the Anthropocene Ocean
How do tropes and images of a changing ocean operate in a larger system of cultural sensemaking? Killian Quigley collects a range of threads to map the disfiguration and deformation of an anthropocenic biosphere that swells below the sea’s surface.
Sensing, Aesthetics, Ecology, Epistemology, Human-environment relations, Adaptation, Ocean, Future, Representation, Water
- contributionJulia Adeney Thomas
Modern Political Hopes as Immaterial Markers of the Anthropocene
Constellating three documents that mark a story of changing hopes for a better future, historian Julia Adeney Thomas advocates to recognize the immaterial power of ideas that gave birth to the Anthropocene.
Intervention, Reflection, Capitalism, Disaster, Environmental Justice, Future, Ethics, Imaginary, Modernity, History
- contributionChristoph Rosol
When the Signal Disappears in the Noise
Christoph Rosol reflects on the disturbing schism between geoscientific insights and the info-capitalist modus operandi diluting these insights to mere noise. Are we ready to comprehend what the Earth has already recorded?
Reflection, Capitalism, Consensus, Epistemology, Future, Sedimentation, Stratigraphy, Technoscience, System
- contributionYongming Han, J.R. McNeill, Neil L. Rose, Simon Turner
Combustion Products as Markers for the Anthropocene
Field Work, Carbon, Deep time, Future, Scale, Stratigraphy, Thermodynamics
- contributionAgnieszka Gałuszka, Neil L. Rose, Andy Cundy, Michael Wagreich, Yongming Han, Simon Turner, William Shotyk
Anthropogenic Threats to Ecosystems in the Anthropocene
Field Work, Biosphere, Deep time, Degradation, Ecology, Future, Stratigraphy, Scale, Species
- contributionCristián Simonetti, Matt Edgeworth
Concrete: A Stratigraphic Marker for the Anthropocene
We are live in the venerable International Court of Stratigraphic Arbitration, and on trial is the question whether concrete, the unparalleled material, is indeed an admissible marker for defining the onset of the Anthropocene.
Critical materials, Deep time, Future, Infrastructure, Stratigraphy, Urbanism
- contributionRavi Agarwal
We are All Connected: the State of Nature and What We Are Doing to Ourselves
Poet and author Ruth Padel delivers the second keynote lecture of the State of Nature: Dialogues conference.
Conversation, Engagement, Reflection, Extraction, Climate change, Capitalism, Ecology, Human-environment relations, Future, Species
- contributionRavi Agarwal
Philosophy of Nature Is Yet To Come!
Researcher Michael Marker gives the first keynote lecture of the State of Nature: Dialogues conference.
Conversation, Engagement, Ecology, Climate change, Future
- contributionThe Mont Pelerin Rewrite
Rewriting Climate Politics
How are the relationships between state, market, natural environments, and citizens understood? And how does this create or foreclose political and ethical agency?
Communicating, Conversation, Engagement, Case Study, Intervention, Modeling, Governance, Participatory governance, History, Policy, Future, Climate change, Economy
- contributionJakob Kudsk Steensen, Daniel Birnbaum, Valeria Facchin, Cristina Baldacci
Aquaphobia
Artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen speaks about his VR artwork Aquaphobia: Fear of Water with director and curator Daniel Birnbaum.Sensing, Aesthetics, Affect, Flood, Future, Human-environment relations
- contributionTemporary continent.
Perspectives from Other Nows
As testimonies from disparate times, the experimental publishing collective continent. present excerpts from recorded conversations that are now echoes of a seemingly far gone implicitness and presumption.
Conversation, History, Future
- contributionTemporary continent.
Seeding Sovereignty
A collage of recorded conversations about the systems of structural racism and land-use brought about by settler colonialism in the Midwest.
Field Work, Conversation, Agriculture, Indigenous Rights, Settler Colonialism, Economy, Environmental Justice, Inequality, Future, Colonialism, Whiteness
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Venice, Louisiana, USA
Anthropos, Care, Education, Future
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Modeling, Mapping, Reflection, Experiment, Conversation, Adaptation, Aesthetics, Affect, Agency, Architecture, Care, Climate change, Contingency, Ecology, Future, Imaginary, Infrastructure, Landscape, Representation
- Field Noteayse
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Adaptation, Agency, Biodiversity, Climate change, Complexity, Future, Knowledge transformation, Landscape, Perception, Flooding, 2019
- Field Noteemily.sekine
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Storytelling, Reflection, Field Work, Intervention, Engagement, Conversation, Capitalism, Carbon, Care, Degradation, Energy, Engagement, Future, Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Rights, Environmental Justice, Extraction, Oil, Expanded field, Confluence
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Speculative Life, Montreal 2017
Teaching, Experiment, Engagement, Speculative, Network, Future, Imaginary, Technosphere, Media
- contributionJohn Kim, Anya Kaplan-Seem
Land Acknowledgement Statement
Acknowledging the historical legacy of violence and the ongoing struggle resulting from colonialism is essential before research work begins in the Mississippi River region.
Reflection, Future, Violence, Care, Settler Colonialism
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Technosphere, Berlin 2015–19
The exploratory research project Technosphere 2015–2019 investigated the origins and future itineraries of technological agency in the Anthropocene.
Experiment, Case Study, Reflection, Adaptation, Technoscience, Technosphere, Infrastructure, Capitalism, Human-environment relations, Inequality, Equality, Agency, Architecture, Big data, Data, Computation, Network, Urbanism, Transportation, Complexity, Cybernetics, Future
- contributionAmina Harper, Andrea Carlson
Anthropocene Refusal
The end of mankind is almost over: a short film on de-colonized futures.
Film, Experiment, Extinction, Race, Settler Colonialism, Imaginary, Speculative, Disaster, Anthropos, Future
- Field Noteunderhil
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Field Work, Autonomy, Energy, Future, Renewable energy, Sustainability
- projectThomas Turnbull
Revisiting Regionalism in the Mississippi Basin
What if the kinetic energy of the river’s flow could be utilized for a regionalized power system? This research project turns towards the past and future of infrastructural regionalism.
Field Study, Energy, Infrastructure, Future, Renewable energy
- projectMonica Moses Haller, Monique Verdin, Matt Rahaim, Adam Crosson, Kristine L. DeLong, Matt Sakakeeny, Simon Turner, Joshua Lewis, Albertine Kimble
Seminar: Exhaustion and Imagination
Focusing on the limits—and opportunities—exhaustion engenders, in this seminar the difficulties of being out of energy and out of ideas will be related to the challenges posed by the Anthropocene.
Case Study, Teaching, Future, Imaginary, Time, Degradation, Affect, Ethics, Epistemology, Engagement, Extinction, Environmental Justice, Species, Speculative
- contributionCarolyn Steel
Sitopia: The Power of Thinking Through Food
Architect and food thinker Carolyn Steel provides a powerful prompt for us to move beyond the perils of the modern industrial food complex.
Engagement, Reflection, Urbanism, System, Future
- projectKatrin Klingan, Christoph Rosol, Bernd M. Scherer, Peter K. Haff, Jürgen Renn, Bronislaw Szerszynski, John Tresch, Luciana Parisi, Louis Chude-Sokei, Esther Leslie, Kathryn Yusoff, Rosi Braidotti, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Lydia H. Liu, Alexander Ilichevsky
Technosphäre Publication
The German publication Technosphäre collects contributions thinking through the conditions and evolution of this new Earth system player. Included here are two selections from the book in English translation: the editorial introduction and a conversation between Peter K. Haff and Jürgen Renn.
Conversation, Mapping, Storytelling, Communicating, Adaptation, Calculation, Complexity, Computation, Critical materials, Deep time, Technosphere, Future, Disciplinarity, Knowledge infrastructure
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1948 Unbound
The year 1948 serves as an aperture through which we can rethink the history of the now; the decisive moment when the heap of fragments left by the fury of two world wars began to reassemble into new forms of technological, scientific, and cultural order that inform our contemporary situation.
Conversation, Reflection, Film, Intervention, Consensus Building, Storytelling, Teaching, Agency, Agriculture, Big data, Calculation, Complexity, Cybernetics, Future, Governance, Infrastructure, Knowledge transformation, Indigenous Rights, Modernity, Risk, Scenario, Speculative, Technoscience, Technosphere, Waste, Engineering, Metabolism
- contributionAllan McKean
Telling time through lagoons of human waste at the Western Treatment Plant
The guiding question of this field report to Melbourne’s sewage treatment plant concerns the temporalities intrinsic to human-made infrastructures.
Waste, Future, Ecology, Pollution
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Typha, the once and future planty companion
Opening keynote by Lesley Head on the hidden and visible identities of Typha and its potential as a resistant plant of the Anthropocene
Human-environment relations, Future, Resilience, Ecology
- contributionAdam Bobbette
Forecasting Earth Futures
How do futures emerge? And how are they understood and produced? An examination on the social function of the process of forecasting.
Future, Scenario, Imaginary, Model
- contributionLauren Rickards
Producing the Anthropocene, Producing the Future
A reflection on the ideological underpinnings and modes of thought that have enabled the Anthropocene.
Future, Human-environment relations, Knowledge transformation, Epistemology
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Global Environment and Democracy
This colloquium and workshop will rethink how to define the democracy in the Anthropocene and seek a new way to the future-planning which overcomes this “Anthropocenic” difficulty.
Sensing, Environmental Justice, Future
- contributionAnnapurna Mamidipudi
A Recipe for Crafting Color: The Revival of Natural Dyeing in South India
How did nineteenth century recipes describing practices of natural dyeing in India come to constitute technologies for green production for the future?
Field Work, Experiment, Local knowledge, Aesthetics, Future, Commodities
- contributionSebastian Vehlken
The Alternative Futures Approach – Modelling the Unthinkable
The technosphere is running in scenario mode. In this introductory lecture, media theorist Sebastian Vehlken picks five exemplary historical scenes to explain how scenario modeling has become a basic function in mediating future crisis.
Mapping, Teaching, Future, History, Technosphere
- contributionJan Zalasiewicz
A Legacy of the Technosphere
Geologist Jan Zalasiewicz considers the technofossils that far-future archaeologists will find when digging up the landfills of the global experiment called Anthropocene.
Reflection, Technosphere, Future, Topography, Waste
- contributionPinar Yoldas, Maya Kóvskaya, Kayla Anderson, Sria Chatterjee, Rohini Devasher, Eiko Honda, Jia-Hui Lee, Angela Rawlings
Shadow Speculakon
How can we envision future life-forms? With the help of an overhead projector and paper cutouts we enter the anthropocenic version of Plato’s cave.
Reflection, Experiment, Speculative, Life, Future
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Technosphere × Knowledge
A new component of the Earth system is emerging today driven by the intertwining of natural environments with vast socio-technical forces and increasingly diverse technological species. Technosphere × Knowledge marked the launch of the Anthropocene Campus: The Technosphere Issue.
Consensus Building, Conversation, Engagement, Film, Reflection, Modeling, Teaching, Adaptation, Big data, Computation, Consensus, Disciplinarity, Education, Future, Engineering, Knowledge infrastructure, Infrastructure, Technosphere, Technoscience, Platform, Policy
- projectRana Dasgupta, S. Løchlann Jain, Clapperton C. Mavhunga, Matteo Pasquinelli, Lucy Suchman
Trauma: The Language of the Technosphere
How is the technosphere inscribed into individual human bodies? How are they restructured along a complex machinery of instruments, techniques, simulations?
Communicating, Engagement, Intervention, Monitoring, Storytelling, Teaching, Adaptation, Care, Anthropos, Anthropology, Cosmologies, Deep time, Embodiment, Education, Calculation, Future, Imaginary, Inequality, Settler Colonialism, Technosphere
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The Technosphere, Now
How did we end up in this world of technological vertigo? This dilemma was the main theme of The Technosphere, Now, a showcase held on October 2, 2015.
Communicating, Conversation, Engagement, Intervention, Storytelling, Teaching, Modeling, Reflection, Agency, Agriculture, Calculation, Complexity, Contingency, Critical materials, Embodiment, Extraction, Future, Technosphere, History, Imaginary
- contributionChristopher Reznich
Times—Before and After
How does the Anthropocene’s time window relate to before and after? How can futures be understood in relation to the times before when we had no Anthropocene to think with?
Engagement, Storytelling, Future, History, Time, Representation
- projectWolfgang Lucht, Philipp Oswalt, Bronislaw Szerszynski, Sverker Sörlin
Seminar: Imaging the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene remains peculiarly flat and colorless when it comes to concrete images, which are lacking cultural nuance and historical depth. New imaginaries and imaginations are needed to engage with alternative futures of infrastructure and anthropogenically altered landscapes.
Teaching, Experiment, Aesthetics, Epistemology, History, Future, Imaginary, image
- projectIoan Negrutiu, Olivier Hamant, Julie Le Gall, Luc Merchez, Jean-Louis Weber
From Valuing Nature to Reclaiming Resources
There is no alternative to placing the economy within the limits of the biosphere. This handbook outlines a new meric for the valuation of nature.
Biosphere, Future, Economy, Capitalism
- contributionIoan Negrutiu, Olivier Hamant, Julie Le Gall, Luc Merchez, Jean-Louis Weber
From Valuing Nature to Reclaiming Resources: Handbook
A global-resources “rush” has led to chronic socio-ecosystemic deficits, thus creating the conditions for local- and global-state shifts within the biosphere and/or society, with unprecedented loss of resilience at all levels. Assessing our resources and permanently accounting for their usage and allocation are imperative to imagining and designing societies that are socio-ecosystemically resilient.
Biosphere, Future, Economy, Capitalism, Extraction
