The increasingly serious and accelerating effects of the environmental crisis represent a real challenge for all our knowledge, which is called upon not only to radically reform itself within, but also to enter into dialogue with each other and with the public world.
In keeping with its multidisciplinary vocation, 精东影业's Department of Environment, Constructions and Design is responding to this need by hosting a cycle of public lectures devoted to the most advanced research in the humanities, science and technology engaged in tackling the impact of climate change and its possible solutions. A cycle with a popular vocation, designed not only for students or academics, but for all citizens.
Four international experts in the fields of climatology, geophysics, philosophy of science and technological innovation will speak to expose the current situation and propose solutions, because, today more than ever, we need a new ability to inhabit the Earth, to build houses and cities, to think about the relationship between homo faber and nature.
Program
22 September 2021 - 18:30-20:00
Thomas Stocker, Professor of Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University of Bern.
Climate crisis: is there a 鈥榲accine鈥�?
27 October 2021 - 18:30-20:00
Domenico Giardini, geophysicist, former president of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology.
Going to Mars!
9 December 2021 - 18:30-20:00
Telmo Pievani, Professor of Philosophy of Biological Sciences at the Department of Biology, University of Padua.
We change the world and the world changes us: an evolutionary look at the environmental crisis
23 February 2022 - 18:30-20:00
Francesca Bria, President of the Italian National Fund for Innovation, Honorary Professor at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, UCL, London, Senior Adviser and Ambassador to the United Nation - UN Habitat on digital cities and digital rights.
The cities revolution: data democracy, participation and ecological transition
A refreshment reception will follow the conferences. The conferences will be held in accordance with current health regulations.
Participation is free.
The guests of Emergenza Terra
Thomas Stocker is one of the leading figures in international climate research. A professor of climate and environmental physics at the University of Bern, Stocker has been working on climate for 30 years, playing a leading role in the drafting of UN reports on climate change.
Domenico Giardini, an Italian geophysicist, professor of Seismology and Geodynamics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, and former president of the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Giardini is an international leader in Mars research, and is a member of the scientific team of NASA's "InSight" space mission, named after the probe used to explore the Martian soil that Giardini himself helped to develop.
Telmo Pievani, professor of Philosophy of Biological Sciences at the Department of Biology, University of Padua. An expert on the theory of evolution, he is the author of over 250 national and international publications in the field of philosophy of science. Together with Niles Eldredge, he was scientific director of the encyclopaedic project Ecosphera.
Francesca Bria, economist and information technologist. President of the National Innovation Fund-CDP Venture Capital, advisor to the United Nations and the European Commission, she is a lecturer at University College London on digital sovereignty and smart cities. She was named by Forbes in the Top 50 Women In Tech in Europe.