To celebrate the 2025 Women's Day the Cogitatio Press journal "Ocean & Society" interviewed women from its editorial board and spread the voice to support women in science! Here is my contribution: IHW - OaS #2_oriDownload Find out it here https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cogitatio-press_in-her-words-chiara-certom%C3%A0-ugcPost-7303447076749688832-1sRb?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAADgZH6YBc5cTiah_nf1S_y9dZ40ZNPH-itU
Marine Social Geography. CO>SEA workshop on science/creativity/participation for the Ocean @PartArt4OW
The CO>SEA research team invites eveybody to the creative workshop "Marine Social Research. Present and Future of science, creativity and participation for the Ocean" will be held on the 3rd of October 2025 at Sapienza University of Rome, MEMOTEF Dep (via del Castro Laurenziano 9, Rome). The worshop is part of the EU Horizon project PartArt4OW and the activities of the SAP&O Science+Art+Participation in&about the Ocean group.
PartArt4OW@European Ocean Days
I'm taking part together with PartArt4OW partners (Sapienza, Raw-News and CMMI) in the 3rd Annual Mission Ocean and Waters Forum, taking place on 4 March 2025 with a series of related events in the week of 3-7 March including the European Ocean Days 2025 as part of the Mission Ocean. The 3rd Annual Forum will be held at... Continue Reading →
New video reportage “Blue Kinships. Documenting Ocean Relationships”
The CO>SEA research group, hosted at Sapienza University of Rome’s Memotef Department and supported by the EU Citizen Science Prize 2024 – Diversity & Collaboration Award, proudly announces the release of its latest video reportage: "Blue Kinships. Documenting Ocean Relationships." This thought-provoking visual exploration delves into the essence of visual research for marine social geography... Continue Reading →
Discussing “AI in Development and Humanitarian Work”
On February 5, 2025 I discussed Ron Salaj's research “Artificial Intelligence in Development and Humanitarian Work: Promises, Paradoxes, and Perils” in the online webinar organised by the Minister of Foreign Affair and International Cooperation. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is often celebrated as a transformative tool to address global challenges. On the other hand, the use of... Continue Reading →
PartArt4OW First Open Call out!
[photo G.Lupinacci/Raw-News] PartArt4OW is thrilled to announce the launch of its First Open Call on Monday, February 3, 2025, inviting artists, scientists, civic society actors, and communities to collaborate on participatory art initiatives (PAIs) that address pressing ocean and water basin challenges. With the increasing urgency of climate change and environmental degradation, PartArt4OW aims to... Continue Reading →
Cfp: Beyond binary thinking in economic differences
*Global Conference on Economic Geography*, Worcester, 4 to 8 June 2025 Call for papers: Searching for economic difference beyond binary thinking: a pragmatist approach. Organizers: Paolo Giaccaria (University of Turin); Chiara Certoma’ (Sapienza University of Rome) In their long-lasting (re)search for a way off capitalocentrism, Gibson-Graham (1996) developed the notion of “diverse economies” (2006 and... Continue Reading →
EIT Community NEB 2024 Gathering in Barcelona
We have been invited together to the EIT Community NEB 2024 Gathering in Barcelona on the 10th and 11th December. The gathering was intended to showcase projects results and feed new networking opportunities with a kicking-off at the Valldaura Labs and working sessions at the Apocapoc living lab. Lessons learned session, session with JRC, ideation... Continue Reading →
Now out photographic catalogue of Digital Social Innovation in Turin and Rome_DSICity
We have just released a new photographic catalogue titled "Unlocking the Urban Code. A photographic catalogue of Digital Social Innovation in Turin and Rome" as one of the results of the PRIN 2022 project DSICity. The catalogue includes an introduction by Chiara Certomà and more than 30 artistic photographies by Giuseppe Lupinacci/Raw-News taken at the Orto della SME (Turin), Hackability (Turin), FabLab Turin, Mondo Digitale (Rome), Repair Cafè (Rome) and Officine Zero (Rome) in 2023.
FishArt_collaborative ideas for the future harbour
At the end of the project “FishArt. Participatory Art for the Ocean at the Port of Anzio” funded by the New European Bauhaus and led by the University of Turin and the University of Rome Sapienza Dip. Memotef, with the collaboration of Raw-News and Platoon Cultural Development, the Follow-Up Collaboratorium was held on October 20... Continue Reading →
“Esplorazioni della Plastisfera”@Società Geografica Italiana
A new setup of the photographic exhibition "Esplorazioni della Plastisfera. Intrecci sottomarini di Naturacultura nel Mediterraneo" by Giuseppe Lupinacci/Raw-News is inaugurated at the historical headquarters of the Società Geografica Italiana, Palazzetto Mattei in Villa Celimontana, Rome on the 5th of November 2024. The exhibition can be visited for free until the 14th of November 2024. The inauguration ceremony is taking place on the 5th of November at 14.30 in Aula “Giuseppe Dalla Vedova” di Palazzetto Mattei in Villa Celimontana (Via della Navicella, 12 – Roma)
DSICity@MakerFaireRome
On the 25th of October (3-5pm) I am presenting, together with Venere Sanna (University of Siena) the PRIN project DSICity as part of the Sapienza activities at the MakerFaireRome. On this occasion, we are schreening the complete video reportage "Unlocking Urban Code" produced by Federico Fornaro/Raw-News in collaboration with Sapienza. During the event it is possible to visit the photographic exhibition "Unlocking the Urban Code in Rome and Turin" by Giuseppe Lupinacci/Raw-News.
SeaPaCS@AntropoCine
The final video reportage of the EU project SeaPaCS is presented at Cinema delle Province, Rome, on the 23rd of October 2024, during the event titled AntropoCine, organised by Marino Midena (Nuova Ecologia/University of Rome Sapienza) during the Rome Film Festival (in the session "La Festa per il Sociale e l'Ambiente": Visioni dell’AntropoCineL’Associazione culturale Roma... Continue Reading →
FishArt Follow-up Collab
Imagining together the future of Anzio Harbour [photo G.Lupinacci/Raw-News] We are pleased to invite you to the FishArt Follow-Up Collab to be held at the Italian Naval League in Anzio (Riviera Zanardelli 22) on October 20, 5:30 pm until 8 pm. The FishArt Porto Cultura event on July 27 has united us in the cause... Continue Reading →
“Ocean Worlds. From the outside it” at Bremen University
From the 26th to the 28th of September 2024 I have been invited to contribute to the think-and-networking event "Ocean Worlds. From the outside it" organised by Andrea Muehlebach, Anja Binkowski, Sven Bergmann, Karin Ahlberg, Leonie Tuitjers, Enes Dogruin at the University of Bremen and the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven, Germany. The inspirational invitation... Continue Reading →
IMPETUS Interview on SeaPaCS now online
I have been interviewed by Chris Styles from the IMPETUS4CS team on the citizen science initiative SeaPaCS. For many people, the sea and its associated coastlines hold a special place in their hearts. It is a means of earning a living; for others, it is a place to relax and reconnect to the world we... Continue Reading →
PartArt4OW_kick-off meeting
[ph G.Lupinacci] On the 3rd and 4th of October 2024 we are kicking off the EU Horizon project PartArt4OW at the Sapienza University of Rome - Memotef Dep! I will be leading the Sapienza team (me, Caterina Pozzobon, Luca Bertocci, Chiara Gabrielli, Filippo Celata, Roberta Gemmiti, Francesca Felici) in coordinating the meeting and the whole... Continue Reading →
SeaPaCS get the EU CS Prize @ ArsElectronica Festival
On the 5th of September, the SeaPaCS team was awarded the EU Citizen Science Prize 2024 - Diversity & Collaboration Award during the ArsElectronica Festival 2024 in Linz, Austria. The video prepared by ArsElectronica for the presentation of the winning project is available below: [Photo: vog.photo] The full prix program is available here: prix2024Download Photo... Continue Reading →