06/11/2025 ore 10.00 – 15.00
Lazzaretti Veneziani
Isola del Lazzaretto Nuovo
Laguna Nord, Venezia
On November 6, the island of Lazzaretto Nuovo (Venice) will host the workshop (Dis)conoscere la biodiversità: A Place-Based Approach to Research and Action, led by Anna Krzywoszynska, Associate Professor of Transdisciplinary Relations between Humans and the Environment at the University of Oulu (Finland), co-leader of the SAFIRE program, and coordinator of the Lively Lab research group.
The meeting stems from a desire to explore new perspectives for biodiversity research. Although scientific knowledge about biodiversity loss is constantly expanding, the role of researchers is increasingly at risk of being reduced to that of ‘death accountants’: able to accurately describe the decline in biodiversity, but often unable to translate this knowledge into transformative action. Various fields of study—from environmental humanities to science and technology studies, from political ecology to critical geography—have highlighted how this ineffectiveness often stems from a disconnect between research design and the lived dimension of the places where it takes place.
What would happen if biodiversity research started from a perspective rooted in places? If we considered places as intrinsically socio-ecological, material, cultural, and multispecies entities, what methods, tools, and sensibilities should we adopt to integrate the possibility of transformative and concrete action into research design from the outset?
To address these questions, the workshop proposes the experimentation and collective discussion of two protocols developed by the Lively Lab for multi-species, socio-ecological, and place-based research. These tools will guide participants in developing skills to (re)learn alternative ways of relating to the world, cultivating curiosity, attention, and awareness of the intertwining species that shape the environments in which we live.
The workshop is part of the Biodiversity Dialogues cycle, a series of public meetings offering a transdisciplinary view of biodiversity, within the framework of the Biodiversity Gateway initiatives of the National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC), and is co-organized by the Institute of Marine Sciences of the National Research Council (CNR-ISMAR), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (as part of the HealthXCross Project – Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage and NICHE – The New Institute: Center for Environmental Humanities) and the Ecomuseum of the Venetian Lazzaretti.
Organized by:
Biodiversity Gateway
Cnr-Ismar
Cnr-Dsstta – GdL Natura, ricerca e società
Università Cà Foscari Venezia
Ecomuseo dei Lazzaretti Veneziani
Organisational contact person:
Alessandra Pugnetti
Cnr-Ismar
Arsenale, Tesa 104, Castello 2737/f, 30122 – Venezia
alessandra.pugnetti@ismar.cnr.it
Modalities of access: registration / accreditation
The initiative is reserved for students of Environmental Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University Venice
