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Anthropocene Milestones: Illustrating the Path to the Age of Humans

Environment & Society Portal

21.07.2014

In the coming weeks, the Environment & Society Portal will publish one comic strip per week leading up to the special exhibition "Welcome to the Anthropocene - The Earth in Our Hands" on the Portal blog. The thirty eight-panel comic strips illustrate important milestones that have paved the way to a new geological “age of humans” called the Anthropocene. Each comic is accompanied by a sketch of the actual object from the permanent exhibition at the Deutsches Museum, a short description by Alexandra Hamann of why this object is considered an Anthropocene milestone and a few personal thoughts from the artists considering their experience with the work.

We hope you enjoy reading about these important milestones, and visit the Deutsches Museum's special exhibition on the Anthropocene in December 2014.

Find out more about this project by Alexandra Hamann, Reinhold Leinfelder, Helmuth Trischler, and Henning Wagenbreth.