How to Reimagine Education in the Anthropocene: Patch-based Learning of Feral Beings and Effects

There is a pressing need for developing pedagogical frameworks that respond to the damaged, uneven, and entangled planetary conditions of the Anthropocene. I propose “patch-based learning” as a new pedagogical concept, in order to engage learners with the deep predicaments of the Anthropocene. The case study focuses on Yongsan in central Seoul, South Korea—a site marked by layered histories of militarization, displacement, and environmental degradation. Attending to ferality, terrestrial traceability, and denizenship as guiding vectors for traversing Yongsan, I explore ways of reading the site as Anthropocene patches and consider the pedagogical significance of such a reading. I argue that patch-based learning may offer a way to work with the ruptures, leaks, and feral dynamics that characterize planetary landscapes in the Anthropocene.