VINCE: Vetting Implicit Normativity in Climate Economics (2023-25)
I was Principal Investigator of the project VINCE - Vetting Implicit Normativity in Climate Economics. Funded by a Marie-Sklodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, the project addressed the design and implementation of state-of-the-art integrated assessment models of climate change mitigation from a philosophical perspective. VINCE included a training phase at the School of Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, a research phase in collaboration with the RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment in Milan, and a validation phase at the Venice Division of the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC).Â
Relevant publications:
Design principles for the IPCC emission scenario ensemble
Underestimating demographic uncertainties in the IPCC synthesis process
METHEXIS: Mathematics for Fragile Social Contexts (2022-25)
I'm co-creator of METHEXIS, a research-action project active in the San Vittore prison of Milan from 2022 to 2025. The group of which I was part designed workshops in logic and mathematics for inmates and tested participants' engagement in new forms of social life and peer support. The broader ambition of the project was to devise effective educational tools and methods for fragile social contexts. METHEXIS received Polisocial Award from Politecnico di Milano for two consecutive years (the 2023 and 2024 editions)
Relevant publications:
Mathematical workshops in prison: design and practice
PHIL 101 by mail correspondence (2020-2021)
A course of introduction to philosophy by mail correspondence designed and implemented as Maynard Adams Fellow in the Public Humanities for inmates in the prison of Butner, North Carolina, when the prison was not accessible due to covid-19. The course covers Pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, and Descartes. It includes full notes, exercises, mid-term quizzes, and final paper prompts. This experience was instrumental in setting up the research-action project METHEXIS (see above).