DIGGEO@ESOMAS has recently received a UniTo – MUR Grant for Internationalisation for a proposal titled “Preparing a COST Action proposal on DSI in the European cities” - we are ready to start working in February 2023! The project is intended to feed basic research and boost international dimension and attractiveness of UniTo by leading the consolidation and further expansion of a wide international networks of academic and high-level research institutions (including strategic partners from UNITA).

I just joined two inspiring associations and planning to actively collaborate with both of them, the U.N. Ocean Decade's Global Stakeholder Forum and the Marine Social Science association, Italy Network.

On the 9th of December I am presenting my work titled "Narrazioni dell’Innovazione Sociale Digitale a confronto. “Leggere per differenza” spazio e spazialità delle reti socio-tecnologiche nella città aumentata" at the Beyond Globalisation:Narratives/ Oltre la Globalizzazione: Narrazioni event organised by the italian Society of Geographical Studies (SSG) in Como (University of Insubria).

We are hiring a 1-year research assistant (1st Feb 2023-31 Jan 2024) to work with us in coordinating the networking, writing, and submitting a COST Action proposal on Digital Social Innovation in European Cities.

The special issue of Digital Geography and Society I co-edited with Filippo Celata on "Digital platforms and socio-spatial justice in the (post-)pandemic city" is now finalised and out!

My chapter, written together with Fabio Iapaolo and Paolo Giaccaria, on "Do Digital Technologies Have Politics? Imaginaries, Practices and Socio-political Implications of Civic Blockchain” is expected to be out in June 2023. This is part of an intriguing book titled A Research Agenda for Digital Geographies, edited by Tess Osborne, Philip Jones Digital Geographies Research Agenda Book, published by Edward Elgar.

At the Open Living Lab Days 2022 organised by ENOLL, Samantha Cenere presented our research in-progress on "Sustainable cities and digital participation".

The DIGGEO@ESOMAS Research Group and the ORTO della SME are participating to the European Researchers' Night 2023 in Turin on the 30th of September and 1st of October 2023.

On Friday 23rd September I am presenting the Orto della SME experience (on behalf of my great companions, too) at “INNOVEIT Berlin: Building the New European Bauhaus”, as part of the EIT INNOVEIT serie, Climate-KIC.

On the 31st of August 2022 I'm presenting my work with Paolo Giaccaria on rethinking social innovation at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2022.

I just launched a call for chapters for a prospective collection of contributions on "Digital (Un)Sustainabilities. Promises, contradictions and pitfalls of digital societies". Please do get in contact in case you want to discuss your ideas and feel free to circulate the call in and outside of the geography field!

During my short visiting at the Institute for Advanced Studies - Science Technology and Society Unit, TU Graz, where I am a Fellow since October 2020, on the 18th of May 2022 I gave a seminar on "Digital Social Innovation (and where to find it)" and are having inspiring networking experience, thanks to the director prof. Gunter Getzinger, linking technological innovation and sustainability transition.

The Responsible Management Research Center - REMARC, University of Pisa, is hosting the online seminar "Global patterns of business responsibility and government complicity in Environmental Rights-based Socio-Environmental Conflicts. A quali-quantitative analysis", by Chiara Certomà (ESOMAS, University of Turin) & Federico Martellozzo (DISEI, University of Florence). May 5, 2022, 14 CET. The presentation based on a paper by Chiara Certomà (ESOMAS, University of Turin) , Federico Martellozzo (DISEI, University of Florence), Stefania Benetti (University of Milan - Bicocca), Roberta Gemmiti (MEMOTEF, University of Rome “La Sapienza”)

We are advertising a 1-yearPost-doc position [Assegno di ricerca] that will work with a vibrant and welcoming multidisciplinary research team on the EU project “Network of Laboratories for Civic Technologies Co-Production: Digital Services for the Public Administrations of the future” (NLAB4CIT).

The European Cultural Foundation in collaboration with Krytyka Polityczna in Warsaw just issued a collection of brief essays titled "Our city, our home. Eleven essays against the forces of displacement in European cities", edited by Charlie Tims. Together with several inspiring contributions, this also includes my chapter on "Political Gardening. The rise of urban gardening is a way of contesting space"