Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene

At a time when humans have come to be a ‘force of nature’ that is instrumental in causing rapid, often unintended, changes to the earth they inhabit, nature in its classical sense is over. Nature itself has become a cultural side-effect, a side-effect full of unintended consequences.

At the heart of our confusion is the problem of unintentional design on anthropogenic, i.e. human disturbed, landscapes. Human projects do not always result in the landscapes of which we dream. But what if anthropogenic landscapes were sometimes also sites of new designs for living—unplanned but still life-enhancing? New approaches that cut across the conventional divide between the human sciences and the life sciences are required to consider these Anthropocene dilemmas. Headed by Niels Bohr professor and anthropologist Anna Tsing, the project aims to open up a novel and truly trans-disciplinary field of research into the Anthropocene. Applying insights and methods from anthropology, biology and philosophy, the project will focus on the ‘co-species landscapes’ that humans and other species come to co-inhabit in the Anthropocene.

AURA: Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene

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