Hacking the Anthropocene: Learning with the Land as a/r/tographic praxis

Abstract

This invited lecture, Hacking the Anthropocene: Learning with the Land, was delivered at Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paulo, Brazil on Monday 10 November 2025, at the invitation of Professor Mirian Celeste Ferreira Dias Martins and Professor Lucia Lombardi.In an age where planetary crisis and pedagogical inertia intertwine, Hacking the Anthropocene offers an invitation to reimagine learning as a practice of reciprocity, resistance, resilience, and reworlding. The lecture explores how a/r/tography an art-based, relational metho-pedagogy operates as both a critical and creative praxis for navigating Anthropogenic times. Through the work of SWISP Lab and its Hacking the Anthropocene K..