Together with Samantha Cenere I co-chaired a session at the conference “Geography and Technology” [Geografia e Tecnologia] organised by the Società di Studi Geografici and co-edited a session of the conference papers Atti Giornate di Studi Interdisciplinari “Geografia e Tecnologia”, Società Studi Geografici.

I am happy to announce that a new article, titled "Beyond Income and Inequality: The Role of Socio-political Factors for Alleviating Energy Poverty in Europe", I co-wrote with Filippo Corsini, Marina Di Giacomo and Marco Guerrazzi is now out (pre-print) in Social Indicators Research.

On the occasion of the SeaPaCS Scientific Aperitive - First Collaboratorium on the 1st of June, 5.30 pm, at the Italian Naval League in Anzio (Riviera Zanardelli 38), the SeaPaCS team is happy to present two new impressive visual products: a new photographic exhibition titled “Anzio under the sea. Resistant Ecologies of the Mediterranean Sea”; and a 7 minutes video “In search of plastic. Sampling plastic at sea”.

On the 1st of June, 5.30 pm, we are kicking off the SeaPaCS project at the Italian Naval League in Anzio (Riviera Zanardelli 38). Citizens are all invited to join the SeaPaCS team for a thrilling and tasty initiative of presentation and networking.

We are starting today our EU H2020 sub-project "Participatory Citizen Science against Marine Pollution and Climate Change" funded by the IMPETUS project. SeaPaCS proposes a participatory citizen science project led by social and natural scientists that mobilises volunteers in data collection, elaboration and sharing on the biological consequences of marine plastic pollution (via in-situ samples collection for plastisphere DNA analysis, underwater video documentation of new ecological niches, plankton evaluation), and in drafting a plan for sustainability-oriented practices based on interviews with fishermen and sailors, in the coastal city of Anzio - Rome (Italy) on the  Mediterranean Sea.

Session chairing and presentation, with Federico Fornaro, on "Toward socio-cultural territorialization of the Open Sea. Insight from Cultural and Social Geography and Oceanic Sailing", and presentation of theoretical-visual contribution on “Staying with the problem in the Open Sea. On the plastisphere as hybrid ecological formation of the Chthlucene” (with comments of the shots of the photo exhnition "Explorations in the Plastisphere").

On the 5th of June 2023 I co-chaired the compelling session “EP004 - Exploring the Emotional Connection Between Society and the Ocean” at the Aquatic Sciences Meeting ASLO 2023 in Palma de Mallorca. On this occasion we provided the participants with a bonus content and display the pictures of the photographic exhibition “Exploration of the Plastisphere” by adopting an innovative hands-on-art  approach.

I gave some interviews on the meaning and the rationale for the reportage and the photographic exhibition "Exploration in the Plastisphere. New Hybrid Ecologies of the Mediterranean Sea"

“Explorations in the Plastisphere” is the title of the new photo exhibition promoted in the series of public engagement activities at the Department of Economics, Social Studies, Applied Mathematics and Statistics - University of Turin. Organised by dr. Chiara Certomà’s research team DIGGEO@ESOMAS, the exhibition proposes an unconventional perspective on one of the most cogent issues of our time, i.e. the marine plastic pollution, by visually investigating the new hybrid ecologies emerging on the plastisphere.

On Thursday 25 May 2023 at 5.00 p.m. the project team of ‘Commonshood in the Garden’ will meet some of Turin’s civic associations and initiatives in the SME garden.

Our working paper "Critical geography of Digital Social Innovation. “Reading for difference” the space and spatialities of socio-technological networks in the augmented city" has been presented by Paolo Giaccaria at the 21th Annual STS Conference Graz 2023 .

The article "Climate Adaptation Plans, Participatory Processes and Socio-environmental Justice: A Critical Analysis of the Cases of Ancona, Bologna, and Rome" I wrote with Margherita Gori Nocentini is now out on a special issue of Geotema dedicated to map emerging environmental politics in Italy (available on this webpage).

On the 25th of March 2023 I organised a short marine exploration in Anzio (Rome) with Luisa Galgani (GEOMAR Kiel, CNR-ISMAR) and the support of Federico Fornaro, director of the local section of the Italian Naval League, to test a Neuston Net for marine microplastic collection on a sailbot.

On 10 March 2023 I will discuss the new book by Antonello Romano "The geography of digital platforms. Maps, spaces and data of digital intermediation" (available for free here) together with Tiziano Bonini at the University of Siena and with colleagues from the PRIN project Short-Term City, Cristina Capineri and Venere Sanna.

The conference session we (me and Chiara Certomà and Luisa Galgani, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany) are organising during the International Geographical Union Thematic Conference on "The Ocean and Seas in Geographical Thought", titled “Territorialising the High Sea: Socio-cultural mapping the interaction between humans and the Ocean”, has had the honour to receive the U.N. Ocean Decade Endorsement by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission at UNESCO.

Very happy that a new paper I co-authored with Paolo Giaccaria (DIGGEO@ESOMAS) is now out in pre-print on Urban Geographies! We want to thanks the editor Nathan McClintock for supporting us during the whole review process and the three referees that provided challenging but inspiring suggestions. Warm thanks to Silvia Cioli and Luca D'Eusebio@Zappata Romana and all the Rome's gardeners that shared their experience with us!

A new book exploring the multiple temporalities mobilised in climate change politics, edited by Håvard Haarstad, Jakob Grandin, Kristin Kjærås, and Eleanor Johnson has been published by UCL Press under the title "Haste. The slow politics of climate urgency".The book also includes a chapter of mine on "Promises and contradictions of digital sustainability in the post-pandemic city".

Our project collaborator, Daniel Torchia, lead the publication process of a reporting article on the Orto della SME experience, in collaboration with Laura Corazza, Jacopo Fresta and me. The paper is just out and open access at the Sustainability journal website.