Seminar: Romancing the Anthropocene
Urban Diffractions of the Technosphere
Tracing shadows—an examination of technological datasets and Romantic concepts in the study area of Berlin-Moabit.
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“Our task is to take an abstract concept from an old story and use it as a pair of glasses to focus on a very contemporary emergent problem.” Elena Bougleux and Alexandra Toland on how the seminar uses literature to form a narrative that connects the different disciplines and methodologies used to approach the Anthropocene and the Technosphere.
- contributionGregory T. Cushman
Romancing the Anthropocene
Adventures between Technofauna and Mauerite: A personal narrative of travels in the Anthropozöic region of Berlin Moabit in the year 2016.
Storytelling, Biodiversity, Urbanism
- contribution
The Curious Story of Berlin’s Invasive Alien Species
Storytelling, Human-environment relations, Migration, Species
- contributionRohini Devasher, Joseph Pfender, Simone Schleper
Stranging the Anthropocene: Refraction
How can we transcend the nature‒culture dichotomy? Making the case for a critical re-evaluation of romantic theory and practice.
Field Work, Sound, Naturecultures
- contributionSara Bonfanti, Maria Paula Diogo, Moses Tinashe Kamanda, Lars Kulik, Esther Meyer, Ana Simões, Raffaela Trigona
Peter Schlemihl Exploring Anthropocenic Landscapes
“Today I woke up and I was completely stunned.” A Flora Universalis for the Anthropocene.
Field Work, Human-environment relations, Species, Urbanism
- contributionMaria Paula Diogo, Ana Simões
Shadowing the Anthropocene
Erasing the boundaries between the natural and the artificial world with the help of Peter Schlemihl.
Field Study, Storytelling, Anthropology
Contributors
Participants
Oliver Belcher
Sara Bonfanti
Benek Cinçik
Gregory T. Cushman
Régine Debatty
Rohini Devasher
Maria Paula Diogo
Moses Tinashe Kamanda
Lars Kulik
Peter Lambertz
Jia-Hui Lee
Esther Meyer
Enrico Giustiniano Micheli
Joseph Pfender
David Potocnik
Manuel Rivera
Imanuel Schipper
Simone Schleper
Svenja Schüffler
Ana Simões
Sue Spaid
Eliot Storer
Jol Thomson
Daniele Valisena
Jinyi Wang
