Hacking the Anthropocene as Reparative Futuring With Young People

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Friday 11:40 am Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3
  In Roundtable Session: Education as Empowerment: Participatory Action Research and Pedagogy (Table 11)

Abstract

‘Hacking the Anthropocene’ explores repair and reparative futuring by examining Land-technology-human relations in diverse sociocultural and geopolitical settings. The participatory project features youth-led hackathons in Bengaluru, Melbourne, and Atlanta, centered on participants' personal tipping point stories. These stories, combined with creative artifacts, form the project's data. The datawork includes 'live mapping' of Land-technology-human relations, tracing watery data flows to reveal individual and systemic responses to the racialized, gendered, localized, and colonial politics of an Anthropocene event. Emphasizing pluricreative practices and speculative inquiry, the project fosters a nuanced understanding of the complex interactions between land, technology, and humanity, aiming to expand collective capacity for (re)acting and (re)imagining reparative futures as we face im/possibilities of living on a dead planet.

Authors

• Sarah Healy, University of Melbourne

• Kathryn S. Coleman, University of Melbourne