How does the Anthropocene change our academic approach to the world? How does new, "Earthbound" knowledge emerge? How should the places and techniques that generate and transmit such knowledge be structured? In a trans-disciplinary collaboration, researchers and university teachers from around the world have developed an ANTHROPOCENE CURRICULUM; an exemplary experimental teaching program that opens up new fields of knowledge and seeks to respond to the challenges of the "age of man." During the ANTHROPOCENE CAMPUS, this curriculum will be tested for the first time with a group of 100 young academics, artists, and cultural theorists. Public presentations, artistic positions, and a forum will open the Campus to a public debate on teaching and learning in the Anthropocene.

During the opening weekend of the ANTHROPOCENE CAMPUS, the teachers will present the seminar topics and methodologies along the three topical clusters Representing, Connecting and Claiming. Based on concrete cases, they will speak about such things as slow media, the evolution of the technosphere, "undisciplinary" combinations of knowledge skills and about the interconnections of climate change with political or armed conflicts. With contributions by architect Arno Brandlhuber, artist and natural scientist Natalie Jeremijenko, earth system scientist Will Steffen, and many more. Fri, Nov 14 starting at 4.30pm & Sat, Nov 15 starting at 11am, each with free admission.

Stimuli from artistic research engage with the ANTHROPOCENE CAMPUS: with a multimedia lecture by Armin Linke and Territorial Agency (John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog) on their Anthropocene Observatory and the complex relationship between abstract models and concrete places of knowledge production (Sat, Nov 15, 6.30pm), a discussion about the post-human "Plastic Soup" with artist Pinar Yoldasand microbiologist Regine Hengge (Mon, Nov 17, 8pm) and Medium Earth, a film essay on the seismic psyche of California by The Otolith Group, presented by the artists Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar (Wed, Nov 19, 8 pm). Each with free admission.

The ANTHROPOCENE CAMPUS draws to a close with an open hearing: what knowledge forms and driving themes inform the drafting of a curriculum for the future? What consequences can we distill from the alarming rift between our educational systems and the challenges posed by the Anthropocene? Earthbound Knowledge: A Forum is a discussion between the media artist Chip Lord, the science and technology historian Andrew Pickering, the science management and science policy expert Rifka Weehuizen, and many more. Fri, Nov 21, 8pm & Sat, Nov 22, 11am - 4pm, free admission.

Project head: Katrin Klingan (Haus der Kulturen der Welt), Scientific concept: Christoph Rosol (Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte/Haus der Kulturen der Welt), Scientific advice, moderation: Roman Brinzanik (Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik)

Developed by: Marco Armiero, Amita Baviskar, Elena Bougleux, Arno Brandlhuber, Miriam Diamond, Paul N. Edwards, Erle Ellis, Sabine Höhler, Pablo Jensen, Natalie Jeremijenko, Adrian Lahoud, Manfred Laubichler, Mark Lawrence, Reinhold Leinfelder, Wolfgang Lucht, Ioan Negrutiu, Philipp Oswalt, Armin Reller, Jürgen Renn, Libby Robin, Wolfgang Schäffner, Sverker Sörlin, Will Steffen, Bronislaw Szerszynski, Helmuth Trischler, Eyal Weizman, Jan Zalasiewicz 

The Anthropocene Curriculum is being developed by Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin in cooperation with the Cluster of Excellence “Image Knowledge Gestaltung. An Interdisciplinary Laboratory”, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Environmental Humanities Laboratory at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Deutsches Museum, Munich, the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam. It is being supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the Ernst Schering Foundation, the Cluster of Excellence “Image Knowledge Gestaltung. An Interdisciplinary Laboratory”, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Environmental Humanities Laboratory, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Goethe-Institut Max Müller Bhavan, New Delhi, Goethe-Institut Hong Kong, Lemonaid and Quartiermeister.

Haus der Kulturen der Welt is supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as well as by the Federal Foreign Office.

Haus der Kulturen der Welt 
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10557 Berlin

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