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Destiny in the name: in Greek mythology, Gaia was the personification of the Earth and, perhaps, it is no coincidence that Gaia Vince has been exploring the interaction between human systems and the planetary environment for years.

She is the guest speaker at the last conference (in English with simultaneous translation into Italian) of the Earth Emergency cycle 2024 edition promoted by the Department of environment constructions and design ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ in partnership with Bobbium and dedicated to reflection on climate and conflict.

A science writer, journalist and broadcaster, Gaia Vince is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Anthropocene Institute at UCL-University College London and host of the BBC’s Inside Science programme about the science that is changing our world.

With her first book, Adventures in the Anthropocene: a journey to the heart of the planet we made, she won the 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books: the first woman, by the way, to win the prestigious award.

As part of the cycle Earth Emergency 2024 she proposes the conference Nomad Century: how to survive the climate upheaval.

Over the coming decades, as the planet heats, extreme conditions will occur more frequently and with greater severity. Places will become increasingly unliveable and people will be displaced and forced to move to safer areas. How should we respond and prepare? Vince will speak on how to plan for and manage the inevitable climate migration that we will have to face and that many people are already facing. Vince’s vital message is that migration is not the problem, but the solution: migration will save us, because it is migration that has made us who we are.

During her career, Gaia Vince has also published Transcendence: how humans evolved through fire, language, beauty and time. She also has publications in Nature, New Scientist, The Guardian, The Times and Scientific American to her credit.

The event, free of charge and open to all interested persons, takes place on Wednesday 4 December 2024 at 6.30 p.m. in the Sala polivalente (ground floor) of the ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ Campus in Mendrisio (via Flora Ruchat-Roncati 15). In English with simultaneous translation into Italian.

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