Etienne Turpin is a philosopher and Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as Founding Director of anexact office, his design research practice based in Jakarta and Berlin. He is also a Co-Principal Investigator of Reassembling the Natural, an exhibition-led inquiry into natural histories of the Anthropocene, and a co-editor of the intercalations: paginated exhibition series, published by K. Verlag and Haus der Kulturen der Welt.