Dottorato in Architettura e Ambiente
Referente – Fabio Bacchini | DADU, Università degli Studi di Sassari

Sophia Efstathiou | Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Starting from hopelessness

16 Ottobre 2024 dalle 11:00 alle 13:00
Complesso del Santa Chiara, Aula Lai | S4a
Codice e link Microsoft Teams: 3vm8oif – Link: https://bit.ly/3XykCDG
 
International governance has responded to global challenges like climate change, poverty or disease through initiatives including the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, or Missions and Grand Challenges for research. The novel proposal of this talk is that responding to urgent, societal challenges can start from hopelessness as opposed to goals. Starting from hopelessness involves attending to and accepting the situation one is in, in its full grimness, so as to harvest the potentials it offers.

Sophia Efstathiou is an interdisciplinary scholar working across philosophy of science, applied ethics and science and technology studies exploring how science can responsibly respond to complex societal challenges including climate change, health justice and food system transformation.
As both PI and Co-PI on major research grants, she brings leadership through her analytic, empirical and award-winning artistic research methods. Currently, she is a Senior Researcher in the Programme for Applied Ethics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), the Principal Investigator of Norwegian Research Council climate research project MEATigation: Towards sustainable meat-use in Norwegian food practices for climate mitigation (2020-2024), www.meatigation.no; work package leader in the EU Horizon2020 project ISEED: Inclusive Science and European Democracies (2021-2024), www.iseedeurope.eu.