Anthropocene Design:
Infrastructure, Imagination & Experimentation at the ‘End’

Instructor: Stephanie Wakefield Date & Time: July 21, 28, August 4, 11, 18, 25, September 1, 8 09:00-11:30 ET.

DESCRIPTION: The Anthropocene, our era of climatic and metaphysical upheaval, has outmodeed or rendered innefective most established modes of living, governing, and thinking. Exploring the Anthropocene as a time of both crisis and possibility, this Seminar examines the political, imaginal, and infrastructural dimensions of the experimental design strategies to respond to, adapt, and overcome contemporary sociol-ecological dislocations. Case studies and vignettes of urban adaptation, infrastructural islandization, design for autonomy, and attempted off-planet exploration will be used as jumping-off points for critical analysis of crisis discourse, resilience ecology and the back loop, ‘living’ infrastructure, planetary urbanization, human nonhuman entanglement thinking, ‘earthbound’ and/or ‘glitch’ subjectivity, and ‘cosmotechnics’ for governing or escaping existing systems (including that of Earth itself). The Seminar will cover contemporary work in geography, ecology, and political theory as well as art, film, design, and popular culture. Ultimately we will be concerned with questioning attempts by theory and design to delimit the meaning of human and nonhuman potentials at a time when limits themselves are withering away.

IMAGE: Enoc Perez, LAX, 2008

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