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Martin Høybye, PhD Student

New face at IMC

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Martin comes from the Sustainable Heritage Management program at AU/Moesgaard where he is undertaking the PhD study ‘Contemporary Futures in the Anthropocene: Life at Ground Zeros of Climate Change’ with Associate Professor Nick Shepherd as main supervisor and Professor Andreas Roepstorff as co-supervisor. Martin will be investigating life in environments impacted by climate change with a particular focus on water as heritage.

Martin has witnessed the effects of such climate change in Cape Town, South Africa, after years of drought leading to the current water crisis and believes it offers a glimpse into what the future of the Anthropocene era may come to look like in other places. The PhD study aims to uncover strategies developed in such survivalist conditions, what people fear, dream of and hope for, adding to the conversation of how we across cultures, disciplines and borders can come up with creative responses to the environmental, social, cultural, and economic repercussions rapid climate change brings. This further involves investigating ways of articulating the challenges of climate change in ways that may counter the tendency to switch off in the face of gloomy and overwhelming headlines.

Prior to starting his PhD work, Martin has been a journalist, social worker and artist, working in fields connected to social and cultural sustainability.

Martin is affiliated with the IMC but will have an office at Moesgård.

Contact:

Martin Høybye, Dept. of Archaeology and Heritage Studies.