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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. My job, together with another philosopher, was the ethics section (“The ethics of rendering informality visible”), where we hopefully made a strong case for involving the inhabitants in articulating problems, and having them benefit tangibly from the research as opposed to assuming that (perhaps) well-intentioned scholars can contribute to improving their life-conditions remotely.  

Here is a link to the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-025-00340-9.epdf?sharing_token=l2EQMg6fJNJDJ1YjUyTQdtRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0N8lE5tX4adGQcW44YQTpsu-tgJAwYeybrk5upjlVMYK8RzSdoHkQ6E37qECIna9V7VaweoczXxv8jk-RTi5S3psPeW3z4OYc_oemIPrv5VklItw-vIvpDigyppGgijJAc%3D

(And it’s in Nature – I feel like I’m in Big Bang theory.)

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”

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

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

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.

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”