[photo G.Lupinacci] What are the main environmental problems in the Gulf of Anzio? And how do major global challenges, such as climate change, intertwine with daily life and the local environment? What protection measures have been implemented? And how has the relationship between the sea and society changed? The participatory research project "CoSea_Lab. Collaborative Laboratory... Continue Reading →

On the 7th of November, during the creative workshop "Marine Social Research. Present and Future of science, creativity and participation for the Ocean", the new video-documentary “CoSea. Critical Visions from the Sea”, produced by Raw-News Visual Production Agency and directed by Federico Fornaro, is premiered at the Sapienza University of Rome - MEMOTEF Department. Based... Continue Reading →

Supported by the Sapienza University of Rome - Horizon Europe Projects Coordination Fund 2025, Chiara Certomà (Sapienza - MEMOTEF) and Federico Fornaro (Raw-News Visual Production Agency) realised a 3-day field research in the port of Cork and the harbour of Cobh, Ireland, from the 15th to the 17th of October 2025. The field work adopted... Continue Reading →

Writing and documentation expedition Within the framework of the pilot project “CoSea_Lab. Collaborative Laboratory for the Sea and Socio-Environmental Sustainability in the Gulf of Anzio”, funded by Sapienza University of Rome – Third Mission, on the 9-11 May 2025 the CO>SEA research group continues its activities of analysis, documentation, and elaboration of results through a... Continue Reading →

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.

On the 9th of October, 12 am-1 pm, CO>SEA team is taking part in the Pianeta Mare Film Festival, at the Aula Magna Scampia, University of Naples Federico II. The Festival takes place in Naples from October 7 to 11 in five locations: two cinematinee in the Aula Magna of the Parthenope University of Naples,... Continue Reading →

SUDNORD - NORDSUD September 13, 2025 | 4:00 PM - 11:00 PM Molo Innocenziano Port of Anzio Promoted by IBIS APS Cultural Association "A small door to the sea. A real and symbolic passage between South and North, between those who leave and those who arrive, between desires and shipwrecks." SUDNORD - NORDSUD is an... Continue Reading →

On the 27th of August 2025, Chiara Certomà (Sapienza University of Rome, MEMOTEF Dep.) and Federico Fornaro (Raw-News Visual Production Agency), research team CO>SEA, presented the premiere of the new  short-documentary “Around Alone. Documenting Ocean Relationships” at the Royal Geographical Sociaty with IBS Annual Conference 2025 (RGS AC2025), University of Birmingham, “Film Geography” session. "Around... Continue Reading →

CO>SEA team is presenting at the RGS with IBG Conference 2025, held at the University of Birgmingham, 26-29th Aug, the photo exhibition "An intimate connection. Society and the Ocean in Water Photography" produced for the EU project PartArt4OW as slideshow amongst the highligths of the event. Part of the photographies are included in the book “Blue Kinships. An Exploration of Society & the Ocean” (edited by Chiara Certomà, published by Palgrave MacMillan, New York, 2025) and in the CO>SEA research on "A sense of oceanic place"(forth.).

[cover graphic Allegra Guerrazzi] Blue Kinships, edited by Chiara Certomà, as just been released by Palgrave MacMillan, NY. Blue Kinship contributes to the emergent movement of ideas and practices that are interpreting the ocean as a conceptual and physical space for reconsidering our relationship with the complex, heterogeneous and mutable ecological systems of the Anthropocene;... Continue Reading →

The results of the CoSea_Lab research describing the state of the sea and the coast of Anzio (Rome, Italy) as a result of a participatory social geography research and mapping. The CO>SEA project proposes an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral approach to analysing the socio-environmental transformations of marine and coastal ecosystems, with particular reference to the Gulf of Anzio (Lazio, Italy). Drawing on the theoretical framework of Critical Ocean Studies and Marine Social Geography, the initiative combines natural and social sciences, participatory citizen science, political ecology, and visual documentation to promote innovative models of environmental governance. Starting from the systemic crisis of the global ocean (pollution, overexploitation, acidification, biodiversity loss), the project criticises the inadequacy of technocratic approaches typical of the Blue Economy. It promotes a relational, situated, and multispecies vision of the sea, understood as an ecological, cultural, and political space.

As part of the public engagement activities of the EU Horizon project PartArt4OW – Participatory Art for Society Engagement with Ocean and Water and the scientific co-creation of knowledge about Ocean and Society advanced by participation for raising awareness about the issues affecting the Ocean, CO>SEA Collaboratorium for the Socio-Environmental Analysis of the Ocean, Raw-News... Continue Reading →

[photo G.Lupinacci, CoSea_Lab reportage] On the 26th of June 2025, CoSea_Lab presented for the first time the photographic reportage "CO>SEA. Collaboratorium for Socio-Environmental Analysis of the Ocean" by Giuseppe Lupinacci/Raw-News, documenting the participatory action-research activities performed during the pilot implementation in Anzio (Rome). The reportages document some of the main emergencies identified during the field... Continue Reading →

CO>SEA team visited Lisbon and Trafaria (Portugal) from the 30th of June to 1nd of July upon invitation of EBANO Collective and MARE – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre at NOVA University Lisbon – SST. On the 30th of June 2025 CO>SEA team presented the European Project “PartArt4OW” during the event “Living the Sea: Coastal... Continue Reading →

SeaPaCS project results on participatory citizen science in marine geography now out in Local Environment. The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability in a research article titled "“I felt as someone special today”. Advancing marine citizen science throught participatory and critical geography explorations ". Working on the results of SeaPaCS has been made possible thanks... Continue Reading →

[english below] Il mare di Anzio raccontato dal TG Leonardo, RAI 3 – Protagonista il progetto CO>SEA Il progetto di ricerca partecipativa CO>SEA, dedicato alle emergenze socio-ambientali nel Golfo di Anzio, è stato protagonista di un servizio speciale trasmesso dal TG Leonardo su Rai 3 il 5 giugno 2025. Il servizio, a cura di Laura... Continue Reading →

Continuing its exploration of the fascinating relationship between society and the ocean, the CO>SEA research group has premiered the new short documentary entitled The Sense of Place: Documenting Ocean Relationships on 14 May during the event La Notte delle Idee – Mari e Oceani: Verso nuove rotte, organised by the French Embassy in Italy and... Continue Reading →

On the 30th of April 2025 I'm giving a lecture on Political Gardening_Spatial Justice and Urban Gardening in the course of Landscape Planning held by Luca D'Eusebio, online at: https://meet.google.com/cgc-toed-rrp

E' aperto un bando per una borsa di collaborazione esterna di 5 mesi (7.500 euro) per supporto alla produzione scientifica e analisi di dati, comunicazione e gestione ed organizzazione eventi progetto PRIN 2022 " Digitally-enabled Social Innovation in the city” presso Dip. MEMOTEF - Università Sapienza Roma. DOMANDA entro 2 maggio 2025 L’attività prevede: Supporto... Continue Reading →

[photo L.Bertocci] [Italiano in basso] Anzio, 4 April 2025 The research work of the CO>SEA ‘Collaborative Laboratory for the Sea and Socio-Environmental Sustainability in the Gulf of Anzio’ project continues in the sea of Anzio. The CO>SEA research team of the MEMOTEF Department of the Sapienza University of Rome with the independent visual production agency... Continue Reading →