Professor Lise Autogena and Joshua Portway will deliver a keynote presentation at the symposium Agents in the Anthropocene: Trans/disciplinary Practices in Art and Design Education Today, The Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, 27-28th January 2017.

The symposium will explore the role of the art and design fields as active agents within the discourse about the so-called 'Anthropocene'. Special focus will be given to the notion of trans-disciplinary research - with its cross-pollination of art, science, design, media, ecology and different cultural disciplines - arising as part of the (critical) discussion about the Anthropocene. Other keynote presentations by Prof T.J. Demos, Prof. Alastair Fuad-Luke, Frauke Huber and Uwe H. Martin.

Lise Autogena is a Professor of Cross Disciplinary Art at Sheffield Hallam University's Cultural, Communication and Computing Research Institute. www.autogena.org