Anthropocene Campus Lisboa: Parallax 2020
The Anthropocene Campus Lisboa: Parallax (ACL: Parallax), is an event organised by the Portuguese research center CIUHCT and its project Anthropolands taking place at Culturgest in Lisbon, Portugal, between 6 and 11 January 2020. This Campus is part of the Anthropocene Curriculum initiated by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), which has generated two Anthropocene Campus in Berlin (2014, 2016) and several satellite events worldwide.
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Systems of Social and Technological Organization
Systems of social and technological organization will follow the rationale that territorial, demographic and resource management, trade infrastructures and geopolitical relations are not isolated mechanisms strictly following reason, scientific data, and democratic decision processes. In fact, while often naturalized or invisible, structures such as social conventions, top-down bureaucracy, political power and, increasingly, the social media, descend from historical practices and forms of social organization that complexify our relationship with the world and its co-inhabitants. Participants may choose one of the three dedicated seminars: Anthropogenic Landscapes of Inequality, Dating Datafication? History, Epistemology and Politics of Big Data and Repoliticizing the Anthropocene.
- projectLiliana Coutinho, Maria Paula Diogo, José Augusto Pádua
Seminar: Anthropogenic Landscapes of Inequality
Considering critiques of the Anthropocene’s ahistoricity, this seminar brings to the forefront of the debate the divide between those who explore and those who are explored.
Infrastructure, Commodities, Colonialism
- projectJaume Valentines-Álvarez, C.I.R.C.E, Staffan Müller-Wille
Seminar: Dating Datafication History, Epistemology and Politics of Big Data
This seminar is devoted to collectively discussing this global and ubiquitous entity of the Anthropocene in its social, gendered, and material contexts.
Monitoring, Big data, History, Governance
- projectElizabeth Johnson, Rita Natálio, Davide Scarso
Seminar: Repoliticizing the Anthropocene
Exploring the tensions between the need for “politicizing nature” and the always-impending risk of “naturalizing politics.”
Agency, Environmental Justice, Engagement, Governance
Perception and Narrative
Seminars under the perception and narrative framework will work towards a reassessment of the available tools for communicating and experiencing, in order to reconfigure the troubled relationship between humans and the world. This reassessment is not limited to media in the strict sense, and will include all the ways in which we change our surroundings and can be said to produce meaning. To thrive in the Anthropocene, we must discard imperialist and anthropocentric practices by sensing and representing our environment and its occupants in ways that are truthful to their eco-social roles. Participants may choose one of three seminars dedicated to perception and narrative organization—Funny Animals, The Sonic Ecology of the Tourist City, and Building, Dwelling, Thinking in the Anthropocene.
- projectHugo Ricardo Noronha de Almeida, Aidan Koch, Pedro Moura, Daniela Pinto, Ana Matilde Sousa
Seminar: Funny Animals
This seminar takes the concept of “funny animals” as a starting point for participants to explore a wide variety of “character” representations.
Storytelling, Human-animal relations, Extinction, Affect
- projectAteliermob / Working with the 99%, André Pereira
Seminar: Building, Dwelling, Thinking in the Anthropocene
This seminar will reflect on the challenges that mass migration, resource management, and market dynamics impose on the practitioners of architecture.
Architecture, Governance, Urbanism, Migration, Capitalism, Community
- projectBrandon Labelle, Ivo Louro, Margarida Mendes, Daniel Paiva, Iñigo Sanchez
Seminar: The Sonic Ecology of the Tourist City
This seminar invites participants to reflect on what it means to listen to the Anthropocene by way of a situated case: the touristification of Lisbon.
Sound, Landscape, Human-environment relations, Agency, Tourism
