Dr. Etienne Turpin

Dr. Etienne Turpin is a philosopher and research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and also runs the design research studio he founded, anexact office (Berlin and Jakarta). With freelance curator and publicist Anna-Sophie Springer, he has been working on biodiversity loss and land use since 2013 as part of their joint research initiative Reassembling the Natural. Both have also been editing the publication series intercalations: paginated exhibition since 2014, which is published as a cooperation between K. Verlag and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in the context of the "Anthropocene Project." With Dr. Tomas Holderness, he also initiated and directs User Group Inc. LLP, a cooperative for software development for disaster response, emergency coordination, and environmental monitoring. Dr. Turpin is co-editor of Fantasies of the Library (The MIT Press, 2016), Art in the Anthropocene (Open Humanities Press, 2015), and Jakarta: Architecture + Adaptation (Universitas Indonesia Press, 2013), and editor of Architecture in the Anthropocene (Open Humanities Press, 2013). Since completing his PhD (in philosophy) at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto (2010), he has taught design theory and research at universities in Australia, Canada, and the United States, including the University of Toronto, the University of Michigan, and UC Berkeley. In addition, he has received research fellowships at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan, and the Australia Center for Cultural Environmental Research, University of Wollongong, as well as the Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the Smart Infrastructure Facility, University of Wollongong, for his work in the field of strategic adaptation to climate change in Southeast Asia.