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Paper on Ethics of Remote Sensing

I’m very happy to share a paper I co-authored with colleagues from various disciplines (urbanism, engineering, geography, architecture) but also from NGOs, public administration, as well as inhabitants of informal settlments. It’s about the bizarre situation that scholars in the Global North can use AI-operated remote sensing to study informal settlements in the Global South.…

Lecture on environmental ethics

Looking forward to giving a lecture on environmental ethics at the senior university of the ZHAW – The title is “What Do We Owe to Nature? Considering an Ecological Ethics”

Workshop “Normativity in the Wild”

Talk at “Cities at the Frontier” Symposium

I’m delighted to give a talk at the upcoming “Cities at the Frontier” Symposium at the University of Groningen, Netherlands

Seminar mit StadtentwicklerInnen und Firmen

Ich freue mich, im CONSENS Herbstseminar mit StadtentwicklerInnen und FirmenvertreterInnen über die Stadt zu philosophieren!

Philosophy and informal settlements

The most wonderful workshop “Inclusive Cities” organised by Yael Borofsky (Collegium Helveticum) enabled me to join with scholars, practitioners and dwellers of informal settlements to discuss various issues around life in such places. I was honoured to moderate a philosophy panel with Michael Nagenborg and Isaac Oluoch on these issues: https://collegium.ethz.ch/events/fellow-year-2023-2024/inclusive-cities Photo credits: Jess Kersey

Interview on Urban Nature

This was a conversation I had with my colleagues Marian Counihan and Ryan Wittingslow. It was on the occasion of a study week on urban ecology they organised for their students at the University of Groningen. We discuss my research on urban nature and my upcoming book.

Talk at MST

Looking forward to give a talk at the Missouri University of Science and Technology (over Zoom). The title is “What Do We Know? Philosophy’s Contribution to Urban Conundrums”