September 27th, 2023
from 18:30
The Earth Emergency lecture series of the Department of Environment, Constructions and Design is dedicated this year to natural elements in the era of climate change. It will open on Wednesday 27 September 2023 with an evening of film and music.
At 18.30, three short films on the water crisis will be shown by Francesco Cara, Professor of Ecodesign at the IED-European Institute of Design in Milan, in collaboration with Climate Space. A musical improvisation by cellist Zeno Gabaglio will accompany the screening of the short films.
This will be followed at 19.15 by a presentation by Antonello Pasini, a climate physicist at the CNR-National Research Council, entitled Siccit脿 e alluvioni. Gli effetti del cambiamento climatico sul ciclo dell鈥檃cqua. (Droughts and Floods. The impact of climate change on the hydrological cycle.)
Recent anthropogenic global warming has not only increased average temperatures in different parts of the world, but has also led to changes in atmospheric circulation, particularly in south-central Europe and the Mediterranean region, resulting in an increase in extremes, both heat waves and heavy precipitation events.
The conference will address the situations that lead to heat waves and droughts on the one hand, and violent storms, hailstorms and flash floods on the other. In fact, the entire hydrological cycle is being disrupted by these changes: particular attention will therefore be paid to the situation of our Alpine glaciers. Finally, strategies for mitigating and adapting to climate change will be discussed.
Free event open to all.
Final refreshment.
Registration required for organisational reasons.
Con il sostegno di , Fondazione svizzera per la cultura e .
The Earth Emergency cycle is supported by , Swiss Foundation for culture and .
Biographies
Francesco Cara
Professor of Ecodesign at the Politecnico di Milano and the IED-European Institute of Design. He is the author of Digital Ecology and curates the music, film and science festival Climate Space. He has held design management positions at Nokia (Helsinki), Sapient (London) and IconMedialab (Paris), and holds a PhD and MSc in Cognitive Science from the University of Edinburgh, after a degree in Genetic Psychology from the University of Geneva.
Zeno Gabaglio
After obtaining a diploma in cello, a master's degree in free improvisation and a degree in philosophy (in Lugano, Basel and Florence), he devoted himself to music in all its various aspects, preferring its most authentic and perhaps least obvious forms. He has released five albums, created more than forty soundtracks for film and theatre, and participated in concerts in Europe, America and Asia. He has collaborated with Niton, Bugge Wesseltoft, Michel Godard, Carmelo Rifici, Villi Hermann, Daniele Cipr矛, Frankie hi-nrg mc, Erik Bernasconi, Bartolomeo Pampaloni, Peter Kernel, Alberto Nessi, Trickster-p and Ren茅 Burri.
Antonello Pasini
Climate physicist at CNR-National Research Council and lecturer in climate physics at Roma Tre. He develops and applies mathematical models to the study of climate, with the aim of identifying the causes of climate change at global and regional scales, and studying the effects at regional and local scales. In particular, he develops models based on artificial intelligence (neural networks).
He has published a textbook (Artificial Intelligence Methods in Environmental Sciences) and several popular books, including Effetto serra, effetto guerra. Clima, conflitti, migrazioni: l鈥橧talia in prima linea, on the impact of climate change on migratory phenomena, and L'equazione dei disastri: cambiamenti climatici su territori fragili, on the impact of weather and climate change on extreme events in Italy.
He is the author of the first Italian climate blog, Il Kyoto fisso (2007-2012 on Il Sole 24 Ore and since 2012 on the website of Le Scienze, the Italian edition of Scientific American). The blog won the National Prize for Scientific Popularisation in 2016.