Designing and representing the Anthropocene: a challenge for designers, planners and philosophers

This contribution relates the outcomes of the international conference "The Ecological Turn", in which the theme of the Anthropocene was discussed at two levels: as an emergency in its actuality and as a threshold, a possibility of going "beyond the Anthropocene". The involvement of architects, philosophers, designers, practitioners and researchers brought multiple lines of thinking and action on permaculture, on new ways of designing the territory, of seeing relationships that were previously hidden, of thinking through the multiple reasons for radical and innovative lifestyles, thinking about the same ontological status of things and the professions of designing.