The Centre for Anthropocene Studies and Geophilosophy is a registered foundation based in Yogyakarta, with administrative roles distributed across Indonesia and Scotland. Established in mid-2025 by Rangga Kala Mahaswa as part of his PhD research at the School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, the Centre operates as an academic platform committed to enabling intellectual freedom and fostering critical engagement across disciplines, geographies, and epistemic traditions.

Our Aspiration
We aspire to cultivate an open and dynamic space for thinkers and practitioners working across, beyond, and in between conventional disciplinary boundaries. Engaging philosophy alongside the humanities, literature, arts, and sciences, the Centre advances transdisciplinary approaches as necessary responses to the complexities of the Anthropocene. Contemporary technological developments are approached as conditions that expand epistemic freedom, enabling new modes of connection, dissemination, and collective knowledge-making grounded in a pluriversal ethos.

Areas of Inquiry (2025–2029)
The Centre aims to cultivate several key areas of inquiry between 2025 and 2029, focusing on critical archipelagic ontology, speculative realism, new materialism, and practical philosophy. These thematic directions reflect a commitment to engaging both conceptual and applied dimensions of thought in ways that remain responsive to planetary transformations.

Our Values
We advocate for critical inquiry, intellectual autonomy, and the freedom to think otherwise. The Centre brings together an eclectic community of scholars, artists, and practitioners committed to fostering progressive thought and discourse. We welcome individuals emerging from the many worlds of Earth, affirming that intellectual innovation can arise from any context and across diverse global locations.

Our Agenda
Our activities are structured to sustain an active and collaborative intellectual environment, including:

• Webinars and public discussions
• Research development and project facilitation
• Publication initiatives
• Routine talks and reading groups
• Institutional and cross-border cooperation