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.

We will be happy to receive your abstracts for our session titled "Territorialising the High Sea” (https://igu-chg-2023.unimib.it/session-list/20-territorialising-the-high-sea/#). Together with participants’ contributes the session will host a kick-off tale of the territorialization process of the High Sea video documented by the sailor and independent video-maker Federico Fornaro, Managing Director of the international news agency Raw-News.

I have organised with Luisa Galgani (GEOMAR - Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel, lgalgani@geomar.de), Ngozi Oguguah (Nigerian Institute For Oceanography and Marine Research), Ana Fernandez Carrera (Leibniz-Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemuende) and Allison Fong (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research) a geo-oceanographic session focused on citizen participation and fostering transdisciplinary collaborations at the next ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting 2023, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, from 4–9 June 2023.  

A new social innovation project has been just granted by the CRT Foundation to DIGGEO@ESOMAS: "CommonsHood in the Garden. A local network for the creation of non--monetary value at the Orto della SME by using civic blockchain" in Turin! I will run it in collaboration with the Department of Management (Laura Corazza) and the Department of Computer Science (Guido Boella). The project responds to the need to increase social cohesion of local economic networks in urban fringes at the cross-road of different socio-economic and cultural contexts, and to improve the quality of the environment and urban greenery, through the collective and circular management of public areas. To this end, it adopts digital tools for civic activism.

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.

I am presenting, together with our team at DIGGEO@ESOMAS an online discussion session at the 2022 #EURegionsWeekUniversity. The session is titled "Digital Sustainability? Potentialities and pitfalls of digitally-supported ecological transition in Europe” and is held on the 11th of October 2022, 2.30-4.00 pm - featuring Alberto Cottica, Igor Calzada and Jessica McLean.

On the 4th of October 2022 at Orto della Sme, the Library of the School of Management and Economics - UniTo (BEM) is organising a swap party on the occasion of the World Gift Day.

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.