2022 “Between justice theory and physical realities: urban gardening and cultures of spatial planning” (with M. Sondermann), AESOP Annual conference TG Ethics, Values and Planning – Operationalizing the Just City, hybrid at ILS – Institut für Landes- und Stadtentwicklungsforschung Dortmund
2021 “Place-based re-politicisation of socio-digital entanglements in urban governance. A collectively designed critical research agenda on Digital Social Innovation”, II Digital Geographies Conference – Critical perspectives on platform economy, University of Lisbon
2021 “Digital Social Innovation for Urban Governance in “a city of trouble-makers”. Place-based re-politicisation of the socio-digital entanglement”, 5th International Conference Urban E-Planning, University of Lisbon (online)
2021 “Just climate adaptation planning: a role for participation” (with M. Gori Nocentini), Royal Geographical Society with IBG Annual Conference (online)
2021 “Energy Poverty is not only a Matter of Income and Inequality.The Role of Socio-Political Factors for Alleviating Energy Needs in European Countries” (with F. Corsini and M. Guerrazzi), Royal Geographical Society with IBG Annual Conference (online)
2021 “A critical geography agenda for bringing back space and spatialities in digital social innovation research”, RGS-IBG Digital Geographies Research Group’s Virtual Symposium
2021 “Place-based re-politicisation of socio-digital entanglements in urban governance. Insights from Ghent”, EUGEO Conference, Charles University, Prague (online)
2021 Speaker in the Plenary Session “Ricerche militanti e partecipative nella geografia del cibo”, Conference Geografia e Cibo, Italian Geographical Society (SGI), University of Turin (online)
2021 “The creative tension between co-optation and resistance: myth or reality? Insights from urban gardeners’ experience in Rome” (with P. Giaccaria) Conference Spaces of Possibility! Communities and places in times of social and environmental uncertainty, project H2020 RECOMS, Bruxelles (online)
2021 “Place-based re-politicisation of socio-digital entanglements in urban governance. A collectively designed critical research agenda on Digital Social Innovation”, Science, Technology and Society Conference Graz 2021, Graz University of Technology (online)
2020 “An overview on energy justice and poverty in social science”, European Federation of Local Energy Companies – CEDEC Annual Conference (invited)
2020 “Collaborative Digital Social Innovation for Urban Governance. Improving public institutions responsiveness in time of crisis” (with A. Peralta), DigiTranScope Autumn Institute 2020, EC JRC – Centre for Advanced Studies
2019 “Digital social participation transforming urban governance. A scenario building exercise in Ghent”, Royal Geographical Society with IBG Annual Conference, London
2019 “Crowdsourcing as social innovation for urban sustainability governance in Europe”, EU SPRI Conference 2019, Rome
2019 “Co-creating, commoning, sharing. Digital participation for urban sustainability governance in Ghent”, EUGEO Conference 2019, National University of Ireland, Galway
2018 “Assemble, mobilize, impact! Gentenaars’way to digital social innovation”, UGent Dag van de Wetenshap, MIAT, Gent
2018 “Much ado about nothing? A critical investigation of crowdsourcing for urban governance in Europe”, Royal Geographical Society with IBG Annual Conference, Cardiff
2018 Panel discussion “The New Network Economy – Impact Investment for a Sustainable Society”, Crowdsourcing Week Arctic//Europe 2018, Luleå University of Technology
2018 “Much Ado About Nothing? Crowdsourcing for Public Governance in the European R&I Context”, Crowdsourcing Week Arctic//Europe 2018, Luleå University of Technology
2017 “Cultivating justice? A critical analysis of the correlation between Political Gardening and Spatial Injustice in Rome”, 2017 Lund Conferenceon Earth System Governance, Lund University
2017 “The spatial distribution of Urban Gardening and Spatial Injustice. In between social-economic and environmental determinants”, Royal Geographical Society with IBG Annual Conference, London
2017 “Crowdsourcing the city agglomerate for sustainability governance”, Conference on “Participatory Urbanism”, COST Action TU1204 People Friendly Cities in a Data Rich World, Bruxelles
2016 “A new season for planning. Urban Gardening as Informal Planning in Rome”, “Growing in the Cities. Interdisciplinary perspective on urban gardening”, University of Applied Science Northwestern Switzerland, Basel
2016 “The informal planning of urban green space toward sustainability transition”, Royal Geographical Society with IBG Annual Conference, London
2016 “Beyond Post-environmentalism”, European Consortium for Political Research – Joint Sessions of Workshop, Environmental Politics Group, Pisa
2016 “An exploration of the relationship between Environmental Human Rights and CSR”, Workshop “Multinational Business Companies and Human Rights”, University of Pisa
2015 “Rethinking Attractiveness. The transformation of tangible and intangible factors in post-rural Chianti”, 2nd workshop “Gastronomy and Local Development”, Goupe Soup de Co, La Rochelle
2015 “ Spontaneous smartness. Smart city as an emerging effect of bottom-up agency”, Royal Geographical Society with IBG Annual Conference, University of Exeter
2015 “Crowdsourcing urban sustainability. Data, people and technologies in participatory governance”, Plenary Conference COST Action TU1204 People Friendly Cities in a Data Rich World, Glasgow School of Architecture
2014 “Chianti Experiences. Turning a post-rural region into a listening territory”, Royal Geographical Society with IBG Annual Conference, Imperial College London
2014 “Crowdsourcing urban sustainability. Data, people and technologies in participatory governance”, International Geographical Union Regional Conference, University of Krakow
2014 “Chianti Experiences. Turning a post-rural region into a listening territory”, International Geographical Union Regional Conference, University of Krakow
2014 “Risks & Opportunities of Private Sector Reporting & Targeting for CBD Resource Mobilization: a Global Compact view”, EU Experts Workshop “Advancing together on Biodiversity Resource Mobilization and preparing the CBD COP PyeongChang”, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rome
2014 “Informal planning for resilience. Suggestions from urban gardening in Ghent”, International workshop Resilient Landscape, Inter-universitary Research Center Territory and Landscape Planning, Abbadia Fiastra(MC)
2014 “Urban gardening as a planning opportunity in mid-cities”, 3rd Plenary Session COST Action TU1201 Urban Allotment Gardens, National Laboratory for Civil Engineering, Lisboa
2013 “Wine Experience. Social mapping wine tourism”, Great Wine Capitals Network, Annual general conference, San Francisco and Napa Valley (invited speaker)
2013 “Crowdsourcing urban sustainability. Data, people and technologies in participatory governance”, Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems – SDEWES Conference, University of Dubrovnik
2013 “Chianti Experiences. Crowdsourcing wine tourism in a post-rural region”, Emotional geographies conference, University of Groningen
2012 “Living space. A political interpretation of the urban gardening”, International Geographical Union Regional Conference, University of Koeln
2012 “From colonial botany to public gardens. The influence of scientific paradigms in the shaping of modern cityscape”, Space, Politics and the Environment, Science Museum of London and RCC, London
2011 “Tuscany in between. Local identity, wine production and global networks”, First Wine and Food Tourism Conference, Scuola Italiana Alta Formazione di Volterra, SSSUP
2010 “Is sustainability ‘sustainable’? Crisis and transformation of the contemporary environmental theory”, Crisis, Rupture and Anxiety International Conference, Salford University
2010 “The Brunello affaire. A material-semiotic investigation into Tuscan wine production”, Royal Geographical Society with IBG Annual Conference, Imperial College London
2010 “Scientific truth and social truth. The normalisation of environmental politics”, Royal Geographical Society with IBG Annual Conference, Imperial College of London
2010 “Urban gardening as a Post-Environmentalist practice”, Urban Green Space Colloquium, Leeds Metropolitan University
2009 “Politics of places. Conventional environmental politics and the space of antagonism”, Conference The Politics of Space and Place, Centre for Applied Philosophy, University of Brighton
2009 “Being globally local: power-geometries in post-global space”, Global Studies Association, Royal Holloway University of London
2009 “Environmental issues: a space for democracy”, Space, Contestation and the Political: A Workshop on Planning, Development and Resistance, ETH – University of Zurich
2008 “Exclusive and Inclusive Authenticity. A criticism of conventional environmental politics”, Annual conference in Political Theory – Green Politics Workshop , Manchester Metropolitan University
2008 “Environmental politics for an inclusive authenticity of Places”, International Conference Political Studies Association, Swansea University
2007 “Authentic places, local identities and Environmental Discourses”; International Conference “Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship”, Inter-disciplinary Net, Mansfield College, Oxford
2007 “The evaluation of sustainability of organic farms in Tuscany”, International Conference on Environment: Survival or Sustainability – ESS, Near East University, Larnaca, Cyprus
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