Hacking the Anthropocene Kit (HAK.io)

This "HAK.io" Hacking the Anthropocene Kit was co-designed in partnership with Science Gallery Bengaluru Carbon Mediators (2023-2024 Exhibition season) and SWISP Lab designer-in-residence, Jennifer Thy. HAK.io sets out to challenge settler-colonial narratives about Land, knowledge, and identity in Anthropogenic times, where human activities significantly impact the environment. While the climate crisis defines the Anthropocene, its outcome remains uncertain. We aim to provoke meaningful conversations and anti-colonialist narratives through a/r/tographic inquiry across physical and digital spaces through 'Hacking the Anthropocene.' The various components in the kit can be combined in a multitude of ways to hack the Anthropocene with young people aged 15-28 years. This kit is accompanied by a pocket gameplay book which is freely available on figshare through 'related material' links, as are printable versions of the methods cards. There is also a beautiful digital resource. The kits activate a new ecosystem of learning around issues of climate in/justice, digital in/justice and inter/generational in/justice and meaningful action. This makes it possible to come together to creatively explore what we need in a community to transform education policy and practice for just climate and digital futures.

Packaged in an eco-friendly box with calico bags to keep you organised, HAK.io 2023/24 Edition includes:

1. HAK.io information booklet and guide to the hacking kit
2. Methods cards (14x creative methods in total)
3. Collage kit
4. Sticker packs, including emojis, colour tags, key words from hot & bothered, Anthropocene icons, map icons
5. HAK.io journals
6. What if ...? provocation cards
7. Sense/think/wonder/fear-and-hope speculative thinking routine booklet
8. Colour me emotional A5 card
9. Pencil case with hacking essentials included