The Human Relationship—Environments an Epistemological and Anthropological Perspective on Anthropocene

Abstract

Raffaella Trigona uses a literary metaphor to shed new light on the theme of sustainability, exploring the Westhafen area of the city of Berlin to show how urban transformation represents a privileged point of view to understand the intertwining of nature and culture.

Keywords:

• Narrative
• romancing
• urban ethnography

Notes

1 https://www.hkw.de/en/campus. Anthropocene Campus Program 2016.

2 The working group is composed of Ana Simões, Esther Meyer, Lars Kulik, Maria Paula Diogo, Moses Kamanda, Raffaella Trigona, and Sara Bonfanti. The work, which took place in April 2016, produced the collective text below.

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Raffaella Trigona

Raffaella Trigona uses a literary metaphor to shed new light on the theme of sustainability, exploring the Westhafen area of the city of Berlin to show how urban transformation represents a privileged point of view to understand the intertwining of nature and culture.