Digital Matters: Designing/Performing Agency for the Anthropocene

Registration

The registration for 25th annual DRHA conference Digital Matters: Designing/Performing Agency for the Anthropocene is now open. The conference is taking place from September 5-7, 2021 in Berlin! Register here.

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

See detailed schedule here

Team

This year the DRHA conference is organized by Dr. Christian Stein (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Dr. Lindsey Drury (Freie Universität Berlin) and Dr. Ramona Mosse (Freie Universität Berlin) and is 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«

Please note: Depending on the development of the pandemic, the conference will take place in a hybrid format or fully online.

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