2023
16 Jan — Glasgow School of Art Winter School
24 Jan — Bioregioning International Summit (online)
31 Jan — Totnes, UK, Schumacher College
12 Feb — Milano, Polimi, Urban Ecology week
04 Mar — Beijing, Tsinghua University, Design & Ethics
10 Mar — Luzern, Switzerland, HSLU
21 Mar — Luzern, Switzerland, HSLU
01 April — Forres, Scotland, Glasgow School of Art Winter School
15 May — Grottole, Italy, Open School for Village Hosts
08 Jun — Rotterdam, Het Nieuwe Instituut
10 Jun — Italy, Anna Maria Orru
04 Jul — Ganges, France, Thackara Meetup
12 Jul — Italy, Anna Maria Orru
24 Aug — Brazil, Signals of a New Economy
07 Sep — Barcelona, Elisava
09 Sep — Ganges, France Thackara Meetup
19 Sep — Online, Open School for Village Hosts
26 Sep — Shanghai, WDCC
16 Oct — Shanghai, Club of Rome
08 Nov — Budapest, Open School for Village Hosts
2022
10 Jan — Barcelona, Spain, Elisava, Open School for Village Hosts
25 Jan — Maine, USA, Dr Sue Ishaq Interview, Microbes and Social Equity
28 jan — London, Royal College of Art, Service Design at the Service of Ecology
14 Feb — Milano, Italy, Polimi, Multi-Species Cities and Relational Design
24 Feb — Barcelona, Service Design Challenge, Ten Opportunities For Service Design
- 11 Mar — Tools For Changemakers, David Bollier Video
20 Mar — Cumulus Green International Student Design Competition (Jury)
05 Apr — France, St Etienne, Biennale du Design, Urban-Rural: A World of Relations
20 Apr — London, UK, Trees as Infrastructure (Indy Johar video)
19 May — Graz, Austria, TU Graz, Design For Forgotten Knowledges
25 May — Ireland, Country Mayo, Art In Landscape, Art as Infrastructure
29 May — Shanghai, China, Aiii Symposium, From Control to Kinship
08 Jun — Italy, Abrati, Food Systems and Design
17 Jun — Barcelona, Spain Service Design Network, Jury Awards
22 Jun — Stockholm, Sweden, Husqvarna, People and Planet in 2042
23 Jun — London, UK, Design For Planet Fellowship workshop, Nature Connection For Designers
25 Jun —Luzern, Switzerland, HSLU, Eco-Social Design Symposium
27 Jun — Stockholm, Sweden, Konstfack, Back To The Land 2.0: Food Systems & Design
22 July — American Association of Management, Polimi Panel
19 Aug — UK, Design Council, Design for Planet Fellowship, podcast, with Nat Hunter
13 Sep — Shanghai (online) Frontier Design Prize (jury)
2021
- 05 Jan – Bangor, Wales: Polar (jury)
- 11 Jan – Glasgow, Scotland, GSA Winter School, Rewilding and Design
- 21 Jan – Seoul, S. Korea, Human City Design Award, Welcome Statement
- 28 Jan – Lantao Design Academy, China, Urban-Rural Professional Workshop
- 04 Feb – Arles, France, Atelier Luma, Algae Lab, interview
- 19 Feb – Guatemala, Diseño SOS(tenible), Pathways To Sustainability
15 Feb – Milano, Italy, Polimi, Lifeworlds: Multi-Species Cities and Relational Design
- 06 May – Ivrea, Italy, Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, What Is Interaction Design?
- 15 May – Catania, Sicily, Abadir workshop, Urban Rural Reconnection
20 May – Lisbon, Portugal, Bauhaus Of The Seas, Launch Webinar
26 May – Leeds, UK, Leeds-Beckett University Lecture, Alive
20 May – Torino, Italy, Circolo Del Design, Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Humanizing Technology,
- 30 June – Low Impact (Interview) What Does The Future Hold?
29 June – Alès, France, Outdoor Festival Cratère Surfaces, Art As Infrastructure
- 27 June – Quanzhou, China, Ecological Civilization Research Institute, Rural Ecological Design
- 04 Aug – Chile, Valparaiso, Encuentro Empresarial, Pathways to Sustainability
09 Aug, – Stockholm, Sweden, Back To The Land Summer Course
29 Aug – Milan, Italy, Polimi, Relational Design
27 Oct – New York City, USA, School Visual Arts, Thinking Like A Forest
29 Oct – Shanghai, China, D&I, Design Ecology Crit
- 07 Nov – Dundee, Scotland, DesignFortPlanet (COP26) Hour of Ecology
- 17 Nov, – Krakow, Poland, OOP Convention
29 Nov – London, UK Design Thinking Academy, Regenerative Design
03 Dec – Shanghai, China, IEID, Beyond Calculation
- 09 Dec – England, Schumacher College, Hour of Ecology
15 Dec – Shanghai, China, Design Week, Francesca Valsecchi Webinar
2020
- 12 Apr – Urban Farming & Biodiversity, Participatory City, London
- 07 May – Post-Covid Tourism, Wien
- 15 May – Social Innovation, Design Bathik (Ahmed Aansari), NYC
- 09 Jun – New Geographies of Innovation, Royal College of Art, London
- 12 Jun – Woha, Singapore (video)
- 13 Jun – Design & AI, Royal College of Art, London
- 19 Jun – Bottom-Up Torino, webcast, Torino
- 22 Jun – Back to the Land, Summer School, Stockholm
- 25 Jun – Design For Change, Edinburgh University
- 26 Jun – Higher Education Summit, Ashoka/Pearl, Delhi
- 30 Jun – Gdynia Design Days, Poland
- 24 Jul – RCA2020, Royal College of Art Degree Show, London
- 01 Sep – Urban-Rural, School of Visual Arts, New York
- 15 Sep – Books As Convivial Technology, Stora Enso, Amsterdam/Helsinki
- 23 Sep – Construction Declares, Hossein Rezai-Jorabi, Singapore
- 01 Oct – Oslo Science City, National Academy of the Arts, Oslo
- 04 Oct – Cities, Nature, Design, UNESCO, Graz
- 08 Oct – Karlsruhe, Centre for Art and Media (ZKM) Driving The Human
- 10 Oct – Oil Age to Soil Age, Abierto Mexico, DCMX, Mexico City
- 27 Oct – Changes Festival, Barcelona
- 04 Nov – PolyU PhD Seminar, Hong Kong
- 06 Nov – Barcelona, La Casa Dels Classics, Reset, Interview
- 06 Nov – Sensory Orders, Ars Electronica, Erik Adigard, Poland
- 09 Nov – National College of Art and Design, Dublin
- 17 Nov – Relational Ecology & Design, KISD Keulen PolyU PhDs, Hong Kong
- 20 Nov – Driving The Human, Karslruhe Media Centre (ZKM))
- 25 Nov – Design Jam Web Talk, Polimi, Milano
- 26 Nov – Sustainable Design Panel, D&I, Tongji, Shanghai
- 26 Nov – Hopeful Futures (text) Quicksand, Bangalore
- 03 Dec – Relational Ecology & Design, Schumacher College, England
- 10 Dec – Lifeworlds, Premio Bornancini De Design, Brazil Design Awards
- 14 Dec – POLAR, Festival of Applied Imagination, North Wales
- 19 Dec – Rural Futures, Limnaria, Italy.