SeaPaCS in London @ Royal Geographical Society Conference

The team of the European Project SeaPaCS – Participatory Citizen Science against Marine Pollution, in particular its coordinator Chiara Certomà (DIGGEO@ESOMAS Lab., University of Turin) and Federico Fornaro (director of Raw-News media agency), presented the work of the SeaPaCS project with the screening of the video “In Search of Plastic”, shot and edited by Federico Fornaro and Giuseppe Lupinacci, and the photographic exhibition “Explorations in the Plastisphere” with the vibrant underwater photographs by Giuseppe Lupinacci in London at the Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society, Britain’s oldest and most internationally known institution for geographical and social research, in collaboration with the Imperial College (https://www.rgs.org/research/annual-international-conference/); the exhibition is set up in the Director’s Gallery (from 30^th August 2023 until 10^th September 2023, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR).

The photographs of the exhibition were screened together with the video “In Search of Plastic” during the conference session 4 on Wednesday 30^th August 2023 on the theme “Blue Hauntologies and Spectral Seas (conference program available at https://www.rgs.org/research/annual-international-conference/programme/downloads-folder/ac2023-programme-book-programme-grid-7-august-2023.pdf/).

The SeaPaCS team presents the work done on sea change in the Post-Anthropocene Epoch (title of the intervention: Staying with the problem in the Open Sea: On the plastisphere as hybrid ecological formation of the Chthlucene); in particular, the team is dealing with Visual Geography by reason of the collaboration with Raw-News media agency, trying to make different languages dialogue, such as the visual language of images and videos together with the textual language of geographical theory.

Attached is the complete program and abstracts of the interventions of the session “Blue Hauntologies and Spectral Seas”.

[Opening photo “Cow-fish” credits Giuseppe Lupinacci/Raw-News]

Il team del Progetto Europeo SeaPaCS – Cittadin*-Scienziat* contro la Plastica in Mare, in particolare la coordinatrice Chiara Certomà (Lab. DIGGEO@ESOMAS, Università di Torino) e Federico Fornaro (direttore dell’agenzia Raw-News), ha presentato a Londra presso la Conferenza Internazionale Annuale della Royal Geographical Society, la più antica e internazionalmente nota istituzione per la ricerca geografica e sociale britannica, in collaborazione con l’Imperial College (https://www.rgs.org/research/annual-international-conference/), il lavoro del progetto SeaPaCS con la proiezione del video “In Search of Plastic”, girato ed edito da Federico Fornaro e Giuseppe Lupinacci, e l’esposizione della mostra fotografica “Explorations in the Plastisphere” con le vibranti fotografie subacquee di Giuseppe Lupinacci allestita nella Director’s Gallery (dal 30 agosto 2023 fino al 10 settembre 2023, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR).

Le fotografie della mostra sono state proiettate insieme al video “In Search of Plastic” durante la sessione 4 di mercoledì 30 agosto 2023 dal tema “Blue Hauntologies and Spectral Seas (programma delle conferenze disponibile al link https://www.rgs.org/research/annual-international-conference/programme/downloads-folder/ac2023-programme-book-programme-grid-7-august-2023.pdf/).

Il team di SeaPaCS presenta un lavoro che sta facendo sul cambiamento del mare nel Post-Antropocene (titolo dell’intervento: Staying with the problem in the Open Sea: On the plastisphere as hybrid ecological formation of the Chthlucene); in particolare, il team si sta occupando di Geografia Visuale in virtù della collaborazione con l’agenzia Raw-News, cercando di far dialogare diversi linguaggi come, appunto, il linguaggio visivo delle immagini e dei video insieme al linguaggio testuale della teoria geografica.

In allegato il programma completo e gli abstract degli interventi della sessione “Blue Hauntologies and Spectral Seas”.

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