Digital Matters: Designing/Performing Agency for the Anthropocene

Conference Theme

The Anthropocene offers a contradiction and a challenge. Its contradiction lies in highlighting the immensity of human impact on a planetary scale matched only by the impotence of creating agencies that might mitigate or change this impact. Its challenge lies in the collapse of the nature/culture-divide that results in a shift in temporal, spatial, and conceptual scales. The Anthropocene reshapes how we think, perceive, design, create and connect. The current pandemic has shown us that the interconnectivity of the Anthropocene is no longer hampered by being too complex or abstract; the pandemic instead has forced these shifts into a globally shared experience.

Program

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Team

The DRHA conference 2021 was organized by Dr. Christian Stein (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Dr. Lindsey Drury (Freie Universität Berlin) and Dr. Ramona Mosse (Freie Universität Berlin) and was hosted by the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity. Image Space Material« at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and further supported by a partnership with the Cluster of Excellence »Temporal Communities – Doing Literature in a Global Perspective«

For more information see: https://www.drha.uk/2021/