People

Margherita Tess

C05 : Urban Microclimate Planning Regimes

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Institut für Europäische Ethnologie
Room 305
Anton-Wilhelm-Amo Straße 40/41
(formerly Mohrenstraße)
10117 Berlin

0 30 209370875

margherita.tess@hu-berlin.de

CV

  • Margherita (they/them) has a mixed background in Japanese studies and environmental sciences and graduated in Cultural Anthropology from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. As part of their MA thesis, they conducted an ethnography of informal biodiversity conservation practices in the Venetian lagoon. As a member of the SFB Project “The Urban Microclimate Regime,” they will now focus on problematizations of urban heat as a spatial phenomenon and processes of infrastructuralization of heat resilient cities, looking at Fukuoka as a case study. As a workshop facilitator, they co-created three laboratories based in Venice and Mestre that dealt with citizen science solutions for marine conservation and sustainable solutions for harbor cities.

Research Focus

    • posthumanities

    • multispecies ethnography

    • anthropology of biodiversity conservation

    • anthropology of Japan