
2022 “Digital Social Innovation (and where to find it)”, Institute for Advanced Studies – Science Technology and Society Unit, TU Graz
2022 “Global patterns of business responsibility and government complicity in environmental rights-based socio-environmental conflicts” (with F. Martellozzo), Responsible Management Research Center, University of Pisa (online)
2021 Speech at the conference “Le sfide della società delle piattaforme”, H2020 PLUS -Platform Labour in Urban Spaces project, University of Bologna
2021 “Why are you doing it? Taking critical action for sustainability in an augmented world” and “Leverage on visionary ideas toward socially just and sustainable transformations in the city” (keynote speaker), Belgrade Climathon, ReMaking Tesla and EU Climate-KIC (online)
2021 “Social Innovation” in MA Place Branding, Dep. ESOMAS, University of Turin
2020 “Critical Social Innovation as “the ordinary political”. Contesting the post-political city via performative material politics practices”, International Workshop Quietly Standing Out: Understanding Alternative Forms of Political Engagement, University of Montrèal
2020 “Environmental Human Rights. A social perspective” in BA Course Geopolitica e geoeconomia dello sviluppo sostenibile, University of Florence
2020 “Just Sustainability attraverso la pianificazione informale e l’uso temporaneo dello spazio pubblico” in BA Course in Pianificazione del Paesaggio, Dep. of Architecture, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
2019 “Digital (and computational) Geography. Notes for a research agenda”, Diathesis Lab internal seminar, University of Bergamo
2019 “Exploring Digital Social Participation for Urban Governance” School of Engineering, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
2019 “Exploring Digital Social Participation for urban governance in Ghent”, Ghent University – Urban Academy, Belgium
2019 “Space matters! Just Sustainability through Participatory planning”, Planning Department, University of Groningen, Netherlands
2019 “Environmental Human Rights and Conflicts” in Master in Human Rights and Conflict Management, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy
2018 “Diversified Agency, Contested Empowerment and Socio-environmental Conflicts. An exploration of citizen participation in global governance”, School of International Studies, Trento University , Italy
2018 Panel discussion “The New Network Economy – Impact Investment for a Sustainable Society”, Crowdsourcing Week Arctic//Europe 2018, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
2017 “Vuoi una città più verde? Clicca mi piace e condividi! Sostenibilità e Partecipazione nel web interattivo”, Bright Night Toscana – European Researcher’s Night, SSSUP, Pisa, Italy
2017 “CROWD_USG. Crowdsourcing urban sustainability governance” MSCA project initial seminar, Centre for Sustainable Development – CDO, Ghent University, Belgium
2017 “Cultivating justice? A critical analysis of the correlation between Political Gardening and Spatial Injustice in Rome” (with F. Martellozzo), PhD seminar series, MEMOTEF Department, University of Rome “La Sapienza” , Italy
2017 “Pianificazione Strategica Partecipata”, Advanced Education Course in “Politica ed amministrazione negli enti locali”, SSSUP Pisa, Italy
2016 “Participation models in smart communities”, PhD course in Complexity Management, SSSUP – Gran Sasso Science Institute, Pisa , Italy
2016 “Esplorare il “lato oscuro” della pianificazione”, BA course on Art&Politics, SSSUP, Pisa, Italy
2016 “Is Urban Gardening catalyzing a revolution in the governance of public spaces? Insights from Rome informal planning practices”, Seminar Series, BOKU University, Wien, Austria
2016 “Business, Environmental Conflict and Human Rights” in international BA course on Business and Society, Dep. of Management, University of Pisa, Italy
2015 “Locale al globale, andata e ritorno. Il vino come protagonista dei processi di globalizzazione socio-culturale ed economica”, Slow Food – EXPO2015, Milano, Italy
2015 “Business and the Environment” in International BA course on Business and Society, Dep. of Management, University of Pisa, Italy
2015 “Crowdsourcing and Action Research”, Institute of Management, PhD lunch seminar, SSSUP, Pisa, Italy
2015 “Participation models in smart communities: crowdsourcing and participatory planning”, PhD course in Complexity Management, Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila, Italy
2015 “Spontaneous smartness. Smart city as an emerging effect of bottom-up crowdsourcing processes”, Open Space Research Center Seminar Series, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
2015 “Geografia in prospettiva interculturale”, progetto A scuola di diversità Pluralismo, intercultura, inclusione, diritti, Istituto Alfieri-Bertagnini, Massa, Italy
2014 “Informal planning and Urban Sustainability”, joint MA in Environmental Management and Master in Landscape Planning, University of Camerino & SSSUP, Pisa, Italy
2014 “On the rise, decline and transformation of global environmental thinking” in MA course, SSSUP, Pisa, Italy
2013 “Business and environmental principles” in International BA course on Business and Society, Dep. of Management, University of Pisa, Italy
2013 “Is sustainability sustainable?” in PhD course, SSSUP, Pisa, Italy
2012 “Environmental Justice” in Global Environment Summer Academy, Rachel Carson Center, LMU, Munich, Germany
2012 “Mapping injustice/cultivating justice. Critical gardening and environmental justice in Rome”, Lunchtime colloquia, Rachel Carson Center, LMU, Munich, Germany
2012 “Orti urbani, giardini condivisi e guerrilla gardening: nuove forme di pianificazione urbana condivisa”, Sant’Anna Sciente Cafè, SSSUP, Pisa, Italy
2012 “Non-extractive policies as a path to environmental justice? The case of the Yasunì Park in Ecuador” in PhD course, SSSUP, Pisa, Italy
2011 “La trasformazione dello spazio pubblico nell’età della globalizzazione” in PhD course, SSSUP, Pisa, Italy
2010 “Standing-up vineyards. The political relevance of Tuscan wine production”, University of Gastronomic Sciences, Bra-Cuneo, Italy
2010 “Environmental Justice and Poverty Relief. The Green Belt Movement case” in PhD course, SSSUP, Pisa, Italy
2010 “Food Security and Food Sovereignty” in PhD course, SSSUP, Pisa, Italy
2010 “Diritto al cibo, Sicurezza Alimentare e Sovranità Alimentare” in MA course, Dep. of Agronomy, University of Pisa, Italy
2010 “La lotta alla povertà nella prospettiva della giustizia ambientale” in PhD course, SSSUP, Pisa, Italy
2009 “Environmental conflicts and social movements: building-up democratic participation through cooperation projects” in MA course, Dep. of Sciences for Peace, University of Pisa, Italy
2009 “Challenging Conventional Environmental Politics. Notes on a Material Semiotic approach to Place Authenticity”, National University of Singapore
2009 “Territorial identity between the local and the global” in PhD course, SSSUP, Pisa, Italy
2008 “Politiche dello spazio, geografie dell’identità” in PhD course, SSSUP, Pisa.
2008 “Material Politics: an introduction” in PhD Seminar Series, SSSUP, Pisa, Italy
2007“Environmental politics and place authenticity” in ESRC/NERC Interdependence Seminar Series, University of Sheffield, UK
2007 “Acqua pubblica o acqua privata? Dalla desacralizzazione alla privatizzazione” in PhD course, SSSUP, Pisa, Italy
2006 “The rising of environmentalist movements and some philosophical implications of environmental claims” in ECPR Summer School on Environmental Politics, University of Keele, UK
2006 “Spazi rurali, reti sociali” in MA course, University of Pisa, Dep. of Economics
2006 “Sviluppo rurale tra sostenibilità ambientale e sociale” in PhD course, SSSUP, Pisa, Italy
2005 “Mesmis Framework e Agroecologia”, in MA course, Dep. of Economics, University of Pisa, Italy
2005 “Sostenibilità sociale e ambientale”, Arsia – Tuscany Region, Florence, Italy