An Evening With: Anna TsingAn Evening With: Anna Tsing

The evening is organised in collaboration with De Dépendance, the Rotterdam-based nomadic platform for public debate, which focuses on the major themes of our time.

Prior to the discussion, the exhibition FUNGI: Anarchist Designers, curated by Anna Tsing and architect and artist Feifei Zhou, will be open to the public for free from 17:00. The exhibition showcases fungi as radical designers in a world beyond human control.

The video recording of the event is available to watch below. The event was held in English and the video is not subtitled. You can also listen to the event in the De Dépendance podcast series.

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Aarhus University. She is known for her interdisciplinary work on globalisation, the environment and the Anthropocene. Her most important books include In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place, Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection, and The Mushroom at the End of the World, which have had a significant impact on anthropology, ecology, and environmental studies.

She has also co-edited Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet, among other publications. Through her work, Tsing explores how global connections, ecological change and the relationships between humans and other life forms influence contemporary life.

Nuria Ribas Costa is an independent journalist, legal expert, and urbanist. She also works as an editor and moderator, music programmer, and DJ, and is a co-founder of Revista078.

An Evening With is a series of conversations with emerging and established international voices in design, architecture and digital culture. Designers and artists take you on a journey through their work, sources of inspiration, fascinations and dreams for the future.