An Evening With: Anna Tsing

Thu May 28 2026 at 07:30 pm to 09:00 pm UTC+02:00

Nieuwe Instituut | Rotterdam

Nieuwe Instituut
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An Evening With: Anna Tsing
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Anthropologist Anna Tsing will discuss the ‘Patchy Anthropocene' during this edition of An Evening With at the Nieuwe Instituut.
About this Event

! Please note that this event has limited capacity. There will be a recording made available a week after the event has taken place. More information will follow soon.

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How do we continue to live in a broken world? In this talk, anthropologist Anna Tsing will discuss the ‘Patchy Anthropocene’ with Nuria Ribas Costa. This is a world of fragmented landscapes, shaped by extraction, capitalist logic and ecological crises. Simultaneously, humans and non-human actors are developing new forms of coexistence in these damaged environments.

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.


About Anna Tsing

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.


An Evening With

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.


! Please note that this event has limited capacity. There will be a recording made available a week after the event has taken place. More information will follow soon.

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Nieuwe Instituut, Museumpark 25, Rotterdam, Netherlands

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