FILCOM for AlmaClimate

Coordinator - prof. Claudio Coletta

Brief description

The research group “FILCOM for AlmaClimate” aims to contribute to the debate on Climate Change and the Anthropocene from the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) perspective. The Group - composed by scholars from history, philosophy, and sociology – looks at the complexity of the ecological discourse, interacting with Natural Sciences and Engineering (STEM). The group considers such a transdisciplinarity as crucial to understand and address the Climate Crisis. With this commitment, the Group represents the Dept. of Philosophy and Communication at the University of Bologna Inter-Department Centre “AlmaClimate”.

FILCOM for Almaclimate members are active in events and seminars, research projects, experimental teaching activities, and publications involving Climate Change related issues, including: sciences and environment; disasters and resilience; nature-cultures-technologies; time and the Anthropocene; ecology; climate change and infrastructures; ecological transitions.

ERC sectors

SH3

SH4

SH6

SH7

Events, seminars, workshops

Seminar series: “Real-time, long-term, deep time. Timescapes of the Anthropocene and Climate Change in smart urbanism and urban transitions” (2021-)

Research projects

Marie Slodowska Curie Actions, HORIZON 2020 MSCA Global Fellowship INFRATIME: Infrastructuring Time in Smart Urbanism and Urban Transitions. (2020-2023). The project studies the joint governance of urban, digital and climate transitions, adopting a time-based perspective.

Selection of recent publications

• Azzolini, Monica. 2017. “Coping with Catastrophe. St Filippo Neri as Patron Saint of Earthquakes.” Quaderni Storici 52 (3). Società editrice il Mulino: 727–750.
• Coletta, Claudio, Liam Heaphy, and Rob Kitchin. 2019. “From the Accidental to Articulated Smart City: The Creation and Work of ‘Smart Dublin.’” European Urban and Regional Studies 26 (4): 349–364.
• Govoni, Paola. 2017. “Storia e Funzioni Della Divulgazione e Della Comunicazione Scientifica.” Scienza&Società 29/30. Le Parole Della Scienza: Comunicare Nell’era Della Conoscenza. EGEA spa, 35-42.
• Govoni, Paola. 2020. “Oltre i Confini. Il Genere in Laboratorio, La Storia Della Scienza e Gli STS.” Rassegna Italiana Di Sociologia 61 (4). Società editrice il Mulino: 829–850.
• Iofrida, Manlio, ed. 2018. Ecologia: decrescita, dispositivo. Modena, Mucchi.
• Iofrida, Manlio. 2019. “Il Bauhaus al Tempo Dell’ecologia e Della Fine Del Postmoderno, a Partire Da Adorno e Merleau-Ponty.” In La Costruzione Del Futuro: Il Bauhaus a Cento Anni Dalla Fondazione, edited by Marina Lalatta Costerbosa, 219–241. Modena: Mucchi.
• Iofrida, Manlio. 2019. “La politica nell’epoca dell’ecologia: abbozzo di un nuovo paradigma.” In Ripensare la politica: immagini del possibile e dell’alterità, edited by Emanuele Profumi and Alfonso M Iacono, 49–65. Pisa: ETS.
• Iofrida, Manlio. 2019. “Per Un Paradigma Del Corpo: Una Rifondazione Filosofica Dell’ecologia.” Per Un Paradigma Del Corpo. Quodlibet, 1–246.
• Iofrida, Manlio ed. 2020. Scienza, tecnica, capitalismo: una prospettiva ecologica. Modena: Mucchi.
• Savoia, Paolo. [forthcoming 2022] “Knowing Nature by Its Surface: Butchers, Barbers, Surgeons, Gardeners and Physicians in Early Modern Italy”. Centaurus. Journal of the European Society for the History of Science, 1.2.
• Savoia, Paolo. [forthcoming 2022] “Morti e rinascite della natura: Carolyn Merchant e la storia della scienza,” in Carolyn Merchant, La morte della natura. Le donne, l’ecologia e la rivoluzione scientifica. A cura di Paolo Savoia. Milano: Bibliografica.