“The International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) addresses the ways in which we inhabit an increasingly globalised world. How do we transform nature? How do we build new social and political relationships for the emerging global reality? Societies and cultures determine the ways we live with and shape nature. They influence how we perceive the global consequences of our everyday actions. We need to understand what our daily actions mean for the world as a whole in order to overcome global challenges.”

The Anthropolands project joined the International Year of Global Understanding initiative by organising a set of activities that occurred between the 12th and the 16th of December of 2016, at FCT-NOVA.

Activities consisted of an exhibition of Ecotopia 2016, alongside video projections of “Peter Schlemihl Exploring Anthropocenic Landscapes” and “Frontier Moods” (both created by Anthropolands team members in collaboration with other attendees of the ANTHROPOCENE CURRICULUM / The Technosphere Issue Campus).

A workshop also took place with lectures from the following speakers:

• NUNO COELHO (Central Saint Martins, College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London),
  ECOTOPIA: an exhibition inspired on a novel;

• ROGÉRIO ROCHA & PAULO LEGOINHA (DCT, FCT/UNL),
  ANTHROPOCENIC: a geologic perspective;

• FRANCISCO FERREIRA (DCEA, FCT/UNL),
  ANTHROPOCENE – what we know so far in order to destroy the planet;

• DAVIDE SCARSO (PUC, Paraná (Brasil), CIUHCT),
  THE HIVE AND THE TECNOSPHERE: on the anthropocene and co-evolution;
  
  
• MARIA PAULA DIOGO (DCSA, FCT/UNL, CIUHCT),
  ANTHROPOLANDS: thinking the concept of Anthropocene as history tool;

• ALEXANDRE PIERONI & SANDRA HUNG (Artes e Engenhos),
  Theatrical performance;

O projecto Anthropolands juntou-se à iniciativa International Year of Global Understanding organizando um conjunto de actividades que ocorreram entre os dias 12 e 16 de Dezembro de 2016, naFCT-NOVA.

As actividades consistiram na exposição Ecotopia 2016, juntamente com projecções vídeo dos projectos “Peter Schlemihl Exploring Anthropocenic Landscapes” e “Frontier Moods” (ambos criados por membros do Anthropolands em colaboração com outros participantes do ANTHROPOCENE CURRICULUM / The Technosphere Issue Campus).

Teve ainda lugar um workshop onde foram feitas as seguintes comunicações:

• NUNO COELHO (Central Saint Martins, College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London),
  ECOTOPIA: uma exposição inspirada num romance;

• ROGÉRIO ROCHA & PAULO LEGOINHA (DCT, FCT/UNL),
  ANTROPOCÉNICO: uma perspectiva geológica;

• FRANCISCO FERREIRA (DCEA, FCT/UNL),
  ANTROPOCENO – o que já sabemos para destruir o planeta;

• DAVIDE SCARSO (PUC, Paraná (Brasil), CIUHCT),
  A COLMEIA E A TECNOSFERA: sobre antropoceno e coevolução;
  
  
• MARIA PAULA DIOGO (DCSA, FCT/UNL, CIUHCT),
  ANTHROPOLANDS: pensar o conceito de antropoceno como ferramenta histórica;

• ALEXANDRE PIERONI & SANDRA HUNG (Artes e Engenhos),
  Performance teatral;