I have been interviewed by Chris Styles from the IMPETUS4CS team on the citizen science initiative SeaPaCS. For many people, the sea and its associated coastlines hold a special place in their hearts. It is a means of earning a living; for others, it is a place to relax and reconnect to the world we... Continue Reading →

[ph G.Lupinacci] On the 3rd and 4th of October 2024 we are kicking off the EU Horizon project PartArt4OW at the Sapienza University of Rome - Memotef Dep! I will be leading the Sapienza team (me, Caterina Pozzobon, Luca Bertocci, Chiara Gabrielli, Filippo Celata, Roberta Gemmiti, Francesca Felici) in coordinating the meeting and the whole... Continue Reading →

On the 5th of September, the SeaPaCS team was awarded the EU Citizen Science Prize 2024 - Diversity & Collaboration Award during the ArsElectronica Festival 2024 in Linz, Austria. The video prepared by ArsElectronica for the presentation of the winning project is available below: [Photo: vog.photo] The full prix program is available here: prix2024Download Photo... Continue Reading →

We are pleased to present to you the Video Reportage, produced by the independent video documentation agency Raw-News , of the FishArt Porto Cultura event.

On Saturday 27 July, the Fishermen's Port of Anzio hosted the " FishArt Porto Cultura " event, an initiative that attracted over 200 participants including children, cultural and creative associations. The project, titled " FishArt. Participatory Art for the Ocean ", used old fishing nets and waste collected by fishermen in the Mediterranean Sea to raise awareness of the need to create a shared ecological consciousness for marine conservation.

At the Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference 2024, London, 29-31 August, we will present the following products "Visual art and documentation of Ocean Plastic Pollution in Participatory Research. The SeaPaCS experience" and the photographic exhibition "Oceanic assemblages: underwater natureculture entanglements".

FishArt Porto Cultura Participatory art event for the ocean Port of Anzio JULY 27• 6PM MOLO INNOCENTIANO PORTO D'ANZIO We invite all citizens to participate on July 27, 2024 at 6:00 pm in FishArt Porto Cultura, a participatory creative artistic event on the Molo Innocenziano, a central public space for the city. Join us in... Continue Reading →

A video reportage titled "Unlocking digital urban code. Digital Social Innovation and City Spaces" has been realised by Raw-News media agency under the direction Federico Fornaro (filmed by Fornaro&Lupinacci/Raw-News) for the MUR-PRIN 2022 "Digitally-enabled Social Innovation in the City. Implications for urban spaces, societies and governance" by Chiara Certomà (PI, University of Rome Sapienza) and... Continue Reading →

[photo Chiara C] Together with Luca Bertocci, PoliTo, we are working on a new special issue of Ocean&Society titled “The Ocean as a Discourse: Tangles of Creativity, Science, and Participation Between Society and the Sea”. We will be happy to receive your abstracts for potential papers to be included. Ocean and Society is an open-access journal... Continue Reading →

[italiano in basso] Very happy to announce that the EU project SeaPaCS. Participatory Citizen Science against Marine Pollution and Climate Change, supported by IMPETUS4CS, I led in 2023 has been awarded the European Union’s Citizen Science Prize 2024 - Diversity & Collaboration Award granted by the European Commission! The European Union Prize for Citizen Science... Continue Reading →

[photo G. Lupinacci/Raw-News] The FishArt Living Lab is held on the 29th June, in preparation for the FishArt Event on July 27th. This meeting is aimed at all of you who responded enthusiastically to our Call To Action by sending proposals and to the fishermen and representatives of local institutions. Date: June 20, 2024Time: 6pmLocation:... Continue Reading →

The final video of the SeaPaCS project, titled "SeaPaCS. Participatory Citizen Science against Marine Pollution" produced by Raw-News and funded by the EU IMPETUS project has been invited to the Festival CinemAmbiente 2024 organised by the National Museum of Cinema in Turin, during the session "Made in Italy". The video is screened in theatre Cinema... Continue Reading →

All Images: Rawdrivers.org The EU NEB FishArt project invites creative citizens, innovators, activists, artists and change-makers individually or in associations (formal and informal), foundations, companies and institutions to propose initiatives to be implemented during the FishArt Event on 27 July 2024, from 6pm to 10pm at the Port of Anzio, Rome (Italy). The initiative is organized... Continue Reading →

On the 24th of April 2024 I intervened in an episode of the program by Gianluca Ruggieri and Elena Mordiglia will be broadcast on RadioPopolare "Il giusto clima" on the green transition and social justice together with Fabio Deotto, journalist, and Giacomo Zattini, climate activist, discussing how socially sustainable it is the green transition and... Continue Reading →

As part of the FishArt project agenda, transect walks and educational training initiatives have been combined in a major event, strongly requested by the local community. The synergy between local institutions and international research aims to stimulate civic participation on the problem of marine pollution and the care of the coastal territory. The event "Let's... Continue Reading →

On the occasion of the American Association of Geographers Annual Conference 2024, me and my colleagues are presenting a number of contributions on ongoing researches...

On the 4th of April kids and teachers of the Sailing School organised by the Italian Naval League Anzio operatively kicked off the SeaPaCS spin-off project “L.A.D.I. and the Sea”.On the occasion of the starting of the  “L.A.D.I. and the Sea”, the sport director of the Italian Naval League Anzio, Federico Fornaro, presented to participating schools the EU NEB project “FishArt. Participatory Art for the ocean at Anzio Fishermen’s Harbour” and invited kids to participate in the planned events. During the day the participatory and open education initiative envisaged from the workplan to engage and collect insights from the youngest.

My new book co-edited with Fabio Iapaolo (Oxford Brookes University) and Federico Martellozzo (University of Florence) is now out by Routledge!

On the 5th of April 2024, I'm presenting SeaPaCS project at the 5th European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) conference, Vienna, 3-6 April 2024. The conference is focusing "on the motto 'Change', since we are in a time of rapid change on multiple levels. Change can be seen as positive by one group and negative by... Continue Reading →

[photo: G. Lupinacci] [english below] Durante la Notte Internazionale della Geografia 2024 organizzata dall'Università La Sapienza presso l'Orto Botanico di Roma, largo Cristina di Svezia 23 A, dalle ore 20 alle ore 23 esposta la mostra di fotografia subacquea "Esplorazioni della Plastisfera. Intrecci sottomarini di naturacultura" del fotografo Giuseppe Lupinacci in collaborazione con l'agenzia di... Continue Reading →