Human actions have altered the Earth so profoundly that we have entered a new geological epoch - the Anthropocene. The stability of the biosphere is threatened, with an uncomfortably high probability of an uninhabitable planet within the next century.
2024
ANNA LUTZENBERGER
ALEXANDRA MAXIMOVÁ
ŠPEKULATÍVNY DIZAJN
STOP-MOTION
Underneath the Problem of the Anthropocene is a view that humankind has the right to manipulate, create, destroy and alter other species and our surroundings. This view is called Anthropocentrism - placing the human in the center and on top. People are becoming increasingly alienated from their natural environment. To counteract this, and to raise awareness of our dependence and interconnectedness, this must also find a place in education.
What if a multispecies approach was present in our education?
What if Non-humans became teachers?
The Non-Human Teacher project pushes anthropomorphism to its limits, speculating that Non-humans will start to invoice humans for their services. Since the anthropocentric perspectives are based on validation we imagined a very anthropomorphic scenario in which we „finally“ see Non-humans as equal.
Do we have to treat Non-humans as humans in order to respect them?
How to value Non-human teachers as human teachers?
Radically reimagining what it means to be human, revisiting the crucial question of agency, and risking finding new ways of relating to the world that we inherit and inhabit along with all other species.
Human actions have altered the Earth so profoundly that we have entered a new geological epoch - the Anthropocene. The stability of the biosphere is threatened, with an uncomfortably high probability of an uninhabitable planet within the next century.
2024
ANNA LUTZENBERGER
ALEXANDRA MAXIMOVÁ
ŠPEKULATÍVNY DIZAJN
STOP-MOTION
Underneath the Problem of the Anthropocene is a view that humankind has the right to manipulate, create, destroy and alter other species and our surroundings. This view is called Anthropocentrism - placing the human in the center and on top. People are becoming increasingly alienated from their natural environment. To counteract this, and to raise awareness of our dependence and interconnectedness, this must also find a place in education.
What if a multispecies approach was present in our education?
What if Non-humans became teachers?
The Non-Human Teacher project pushes anthropomorphism to its limits, speculating that Non-humans will start to invoice humans for their services. Since the anthropocentric perspectives are based on validation we imagined a very anthropomorphic scenario in which we „finally“ see Non-humans as equal.
Do we have to treat Non-humans as humans in order to respect them?
How to value Non-human teachers as human teachers?
Radically reimagining what it means to be human, revisiting the crucial question of agency, and risking finding new ways of relating to the world that we inherit and inhabit along with all other species.
Human actions have altered the Earth so profoundly that we have entered a new geological epoch - the Anthropocene. The stability of the biosphere is threatened, with an uncomfortably high probability of an uninhabitable planet within the next century.
2024
ANNA LUTZENBERGER
ALEXANDRA MAXIMOVÁ
ŠPEKULATÍVNY DIZAJN
STOP-MOTION
Underneath the Problem of the Anthropocene is a view that humankind has the right to manipulate, create, destroy and alter other species and our surroundings. This view is called Anthropocentrism - placing the human in the center and on top. People are becoming increasingly alienated from their natural environment. To counteract this, and to raise awareness of our dependence and interconnectedness, this must also find a place in education.
What if a multispecies approach was present in our education?
What if Non-humans became teachers?
The Non-Human Teacher project pushes anthropomorphism to its limits, speculating that Non-humans will start to invoice humans for their services. Since the anthropocentric perspectives are based on validation we imagined a very anthropomorphic scenario in which we „finally“ see Non-humans as equal.
Do we have to treat Non-humans as humans in order to respect them?
How to value Non-human teachers as human teachers?
Radically reimagining what it means to be human, revisiting the crucial question of agency, and risking finding new ways of relating to the world that we inherit and inhabit along with all other species.