Thomas Turnbull

Thomas has worked at the MPIWG since 2017. Following a collaborative project with HKW Berlin, he became a research scholar in Department 1 in 2020. Throughout his time at this department, he was a member of Anthropocene Formations and its precursor working groups. In January 2024 he transferred to the Department Knowledge Systems and Collective Life. There he is part of the working group Unknowing Environmental Crisis. Before Berlin, Thomas completed his PhD at the University of Oxford School of Geography and the Environment (SOGE) in 2017. Before Oxford, he worked in energy policy in London. Thomas has taught at the University of Oxford, University College London, and St Gallen University in Switzerland, where he teaches a course ‘Energy histories, Climate Futures.’ Alongside the MPIWG Thomas continues to involve himself in a number of art and outreach projects: not least Mississippi. An Anthropocene River (2018-2019) at Berlin’s House of World Cultures (HKW); The Ledger of the Sun (2022) with Jamie Allen at Oslo’s Architecture Triennale; The Driving Factor (2023) with Eliza Bertuzzo, Daniele Tognozzi, and Neli Wagner; and Fossile Energie, Fragile Zukunft (2024) at Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven with the curator Lena Reisner. In 2025 he is contributing to a book by artist Imani Jacqueline Brown.

Contact:
Thomas Turnbull
t.turnbull[at]berlin.bard.edu