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

<p dir="ltr">This invited lecture, <i>Hacking the Anthropocene: Learning with the Land</i>, 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.</p><p dir="ltr">In an age where planetary crisis and pedagogical inertia intertwine, <i>Hacking the Anthropocene</i> offers an invitation to reimagine learning as a practice of reciprocity, resistance, resilience, and reworlding. The lecture explores how <b>a/r/tography</b> an art-based, relational metho-pedagogy operates as both a critical and creative praxis for navigating Anthropogenic times. Through the work of <b>SWISP Lab</b> and its <b>Hacking the Anthropocene Kit (HAK.io)</b>, the session considers how play, meditation, story, and speculative design become ethical technologies for hacking the systems that perpetuate separation between human and other-than-human worlds.</p><p dir="ltr">Drawing on examples from youth-focused climate storytelling and intergenerational art-based research across Australia, India, and the Science Gallery Network, <i>Learning with the Land</i> reframes education not as a toolkit for an imagined future, but as an act of attunement and care; an embodied, ecological pedagogy through which Land itself teaches us texture, time, rhythm, and relation.</p><p><br></p>