Method: Consensus Building
- 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
- projectFrancine M.G. McCarthy, Colin Waters, Simon Turner, Martin J. Head, Bernd M. Scherer, Christoph Rosol, Georg N. Schäfer, Katrin Klingan
Press Material GSSP Candidate Site Announcement
Press material on the AWG, Crawford Lake, as well as the collaboration between the AWG, HKW and MPIWG.
Consensus Building, Engagement, Sensing, Field Work, Conversation, Knowledge production, Stratigraphy, Media
- projectDavide Scarso
Anthropocene Forum 2021
Held in June in Foz Côa, June 2021, with the purpose of discussing the need for an EU-inclusive agenda to address the challenges of a rapidly changing planet
Teaching, Consensus Building, Engagement, Intervention, Disaster, Sustainability, Knowledge production, Knowledge transformation, Local knowledge, Scale
- contributionSimon Turner, Michelle Murphy, Lesley J. F. Green
Environmental Markers to Chemical Violence
How do we connect pollutant markers demarcating the Anthropocene with the exploitative and unequal anthropogenic-economic-industrial systems that created them?
Mapping, Consensus Building, Experiment, Engagement, Pollution, Toxicity, Violence, Indigenous Rights, Environmental Justice, Settler Colonialism
- projectAlyne Costa, Fernando Silva e Silva, Anelise De Carli, André Araujo
Earth and Us
From 2022 to 2024, the Earth and Us project will foster and articulate the South and Latin American communities engaged in the Anthropocene debate.
Teaching, Engagement, Conversation, Consensus Building, Network, Knowledge infrastructure, Knowledge production
- projectMadhushree Kamak, Jahnavi Phalkey, Ravi Agarwal
Anthropocene Bangalore 2022–
Since 2019, Science Gallery Bengaluru (SGB) has conducted multiple public engagement programmes around the Anthropocene.
Storytelling, Engagement, Consensus Building, Conversation, Toxicity, Climate change, History, Media, Carbon, Sustainability, Economy
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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
- projectKoki Tanaka, L. Sasha Gora, Shadreck Chirikure, Patricia Reed, Fernando Silva e Silva, Simon Turner, Mi You, Gary Zhexi Zhang, Jahnavi Phalkey, Nikiwe Solomon, Jenna Sutela, Mark Williams, Lisa Baraitser, Orit Halpern, Valentina Karga, Margarida Mendes, Nishant Shah, Maria Chehonadskih, John Kim, Francine M.G. McCarthy, Adania Shibli, Jamie Allen, Ravi Agarwal, Myung Ae Choi, Paul Boshears, Nina Jäger, Lital Khaikin, Claire Pentecost, Rebecca Snedeker, Mohammad Al Attar, Kai van Eikels
Where is the Planetary? Day 2
The search for a common planetary practice becomes tangible, as the five research questions are linked to a series of activities.
Communicating, Consensus Building, Engagement, Experiment, Modeling, Storytelling, Cosmologies, Care, Scale
- projectKoki Tanaka, Lisa Baraitser, L. Sasha Gora, Jan Zalasiewicz, Jahnavi Phalkey, Patricia Reed, Fernando Silva e Silva, Nikiwe Solomon, Jenna Sutela, Simon Turner, Mi You, Mark Williams, Gary Zhexi Zhang, Ravi Agarwal, Maria Chehonadskih, Myung Ae Choi, John Kim, Francine M.G. McCarthy, Claire Pentecost, Adania Shibli, Rebecca Snedeker, Jamie Allen, Paul Boshears, Nina Jäger, Lital Khaikin, Kai van Eikels
Where is the Planetary? Day 1
In an experimental setting designed by artist Koki Tanaka, scientists, scholars, and artists share various perspectives on planetary practice.
Communicating, Consensus Building, Engagement, Experiment, Modeling, Storytelling, Cosmologies, Scale, Care
- 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
- contributionKristine L. DeLong, Mark Williams, Jens Zinke, Neal Cantin, Sophia Roosth
Core Readings: West Flower Garden Bank Reef and Flinders Reef
A close reading of coral samples from the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean—finding signals of ocean warming and the impacts of offshore oil extraction.
Field Work, Conversation, Consensus Building, Engagement, Extraction, Climate change, Ocean
- contributionYongming Han, Mark Williams, Mi You, Li Li
Core Readings: Sihailongwan Lake
Tracing socio-political upheavals and technological change in sediment samples from Sihailongwan Lake in northeastern China.
Engagement, Field Work, Consensus Building, Technosphere, Water
- contributionKatrin Klingan, Soren Brothers, Francine M.G. McCarthy, Michelle Murphy, Catherine Tammaro, Mark Williams
Core Readings: Crawford Lake
How do different forms of societal organization and land use over the centuries affect the environment on local and planetary levels?
Consensus Building, Conversation, Engagement, Field Work, Life, History, Human-environment relations, Landscape, Scale, Settler Colonialism, Knowledge production
- contributionDaniel Emanuelsson, Jack Humby, Susan Schuppli, Dieter Tetzner, Liz Thomas, Mark Williams
Core Readings: Antarctic Peninsula
Researchers study an ice core from one of the fastest-warming places on Earth—revealing key data on Antarctica’s environmental history.
Engagement, Field Work, Consensus Building, Human-environment relations, History, Climate change
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Anthropocene Working Group. A Scientific Forum
During Unearthing the Present, the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) will present the conclusive stratigraphic findings from twelve sites that hold the potential to become a GSSP for the formal demarcation of the Anthropocene.
Case Study, Consensus Building, Conversation, Stratigraphy, Holocene, Deep time, Landscape, Ocean, Data, Sedimentation
- contributionAdam Bobbette
A Javanese Anthropocene?
Geographer and writer Adam Bobbette describes the reciprocal and porous relationship between society and geology in early twentieth-century Java, and Julia Adeney Thomas argues that the novelty of the Anthropocene lies in the shift from local geology to the chronicling of the Earth system
Consensus Building, Storytelling, Cosmologies, Epistemology, History, Landscape, Wisdom
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Unearthing the Present Full Program
What is the new geological epoch made of? This event series connects the geological analysis of the present with a discussion of the changing scope for social and political agency.
Consensus Building, Conversation, Engagement, Field Study, Reflection, Experiment
- contributionNikiwe Solomon, Adrian Van Wyk
Consensus Building: The Clash between Governance and Everyday Life
From the context of the Kuils River near Cape Town, South Africa, Nikiwe Solomon and Adrian Van Wyk reckon with the question—whose knowledge really matters?
Consensus Building, Conversation, Engagement, Water, Environmental Justice, Human-environment relations, Capitalism, Governance, Urbanism
- contributionSimon Turner
Shifting Sands or Set in Stone?
Simon Turner reflects on the International Chronostratigraphic Chart as both a continual work in progress and a product of centuries of scientific consensus-building.
Consensus Building, Engagement, Field Work, Mapping, Big data, Holocene, Calculation, Consensus, Landscape, History
- contributionJohn Kim, Abbéy Odunlami
Collaborative Social Formats
To what end should activism and institutionally backed projects cooperate? Contributors Kim and Odunlami recap on their experiences in the years 2019 and 2020.
Consensus Building, Conversation, Engagement, Race, Environmental Justice, Inequality
- contributionSimon Turner, Adania Shibli
Interview: Consensus Building
Seminar moderators Adania Shibli and Simon Turner reflect on the meaning of consensus building in the Anthropocene and ask, what enables consensus to occur?
Consensus Building, Agency, Consensus, Knowledge production, Engagement
- projectAdania Shibli, Simon Turner
Seminar: Consensus Building
With myriad different perspectives, tools and methods for describing the planet in transformation, how is it that consensus and verification can be established?
Consensus Building, Case Study, Conversation, Engagement
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Case Studies and Seminars: The Shape of a Practice
The week-long The Shape of a Practice event, which took place in October 2020, was a product of a diverse collection of case studies.
Sensing, Reflection, Conversation, Case Study, Consensus Building, Archiving, Communicating, Agency, Network, Complexity, Knowledge infrastructure, Knowledge production, Topology
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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
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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
- projectPeter K. Haff, Mark Hansen, Jürgen Renn, Erich Hörl, Birgit Schneider
Triggers: Introducing the Technosphere
What triggered the technosphere? This lightning-round presents a visual and aural panorama of events that catalyzed the rise of our contemporary technical worlds.
Communicating, Consensus Building, Intervention, Storytelling, Teaching, Modeling, History, Technosphere, Anthropos, Carbon, Agriculture, Capitalism, Climate change, Critical materials, Cybernetics, Data, Settler Colonialism, Disaster, Contingency, Extraction, Pollution, Network
