Design·Arts·Culture—Anthropocene in the Meantime
- s-architecture
- Jun 12
- 2 min read
Dear Friends,
This is a letter of inspiration, directed to categories of professionals with a potential to publish in two forthcoming issues of DAC (Design·Arts·Culture).
As an anthropologist working at an art·school, I realise that—for professionals with the said potential—it is not self-evident to them that their contributions might be relevant to this journal.
So, I have put in some effort in creating a framework in which professionals…
who include experiment in their field research [fieldwork].
who are interested in the curatorial turn in ALM [Archives, Libraries and Museums]
whose activities in teaching, tutoring and theory development include elements of investigative aesthetics [w/an intellectual potential extruding from action research]
… feel welcome and inspired to contribute the DAC issues titled Anthropocene in the meantime.
In the experimental, curated and interactive affordances hatching from the contributions—in the editorial design of the two issues—we will shape a public matter.
We are hoping for a harvest of non·same contributions—pitched in the 3 adjoined inspirational documents—which together will constitute a small contribution to establish tne anthropocene as a public matter (res publica) featuring in the format of a magazine.
It features a humble and bold attempt at combining the sense of actuality of a newspaper, while maintaining the collegial framework of peer·reviews. Which means that we will have to work in innovative ways with peer·reviewing in this project.
The initiative is less motivated by ambition than by need. The need for something more stable but less institutional in making a public matter of the anthropocene, succeeding at responding at its challenges, with what one could call located ‘industrial knowledge’.
That is, breaking with the assumption that industry must be dislocated and large/off the charts; and focussing instead on its capacity of homing in on what cannot be had, but can only be held. Here, the anthropocene evidently summons an 'industrial coming of age'.
A small contribution to which are the interactions you relate and hatch in the two issues of DAC to which you are kindly invited to place your bid, by writing and uploading an abstract within the deadline for abstracts—ultimo July 2025. Hoping that you will be inspired to take the challenge.
All the best,
Theo Barth (Guest editor)
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Attachments:
#39—DAC·industries
#44—DEPOTs
#45—2nd PUSHEs
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professor of theory and writing
dpt. of design
oslo national academy of the arts
