Margherita Tess
C05 : Urban Microclimate Planning RegimesHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Institut für Europäische Ethnologie
Room 305
Anton-Wilhelm-Amo Straße 40/41
(formerly Mohrenstraße)
10117 Berlin
CV
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Since 04/2022
Doctoral researcher
Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt University Berlin
Thesis provisional title: Hot microclimates: Spatial investigations on heat-adaptation infrastructures in Japan.
Supervisors: Ignacio Farías, Atsuro Morita -
2019-2022
Master in Cultural Anthropology, Ethnology, Ethnolinguistic
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy).
Dissertation title: Doing politics with species. Modes of valuation, care, and conflicts among conservation practices in the Venetian lagoon: an ethnographic account.
Supervisor: Roberta Raffaetà
110/110 cum laude -
2020
Erasmus mobility
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris)
Supervisor: Emanuele Coccia -
2019-2021
Honours Education (Master)
International College Ca’ Foscari of Venice
Complementary Studies in Environmental Humanities
Dissertation title: Post-Darwinian critiques on the use of metaphors in the Modern Synthesis: cultural and political implications.
Supervisor: Pietro Daniel Omodeo -
2019
International mobility
Hokkaido University 北海道大学 (Japan) -
2016-2019
Bachelor in Languages Cultures and Societies of Asia and Mediterranean Africa (curriculum Japan)
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy).
Dissertation title: Aspirational Labor and Masculinity in Contemporary Japan
Supervisor: Toshio Miyake
110/110 cum laude -
2017-2019
Additional Studies
Venice International University
Additional studies in Gender Studies, Ecofeminism -
2016-2019
Honours Education (Bachelor)
International College Ca’ Foscari of Venice
Complementary studies in Environmental Sustainability
Publications
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Prabaharyaka, I., Tess, F., & Farías, I. (2025). Touch Microclimate. Holotipus Rivista di Zoologia Sistematica e Tassonomia, 2025(2), 2–9. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14843127
Tess, M. (2024, June 21). You are Kōsa: Thinking with the Yellow Sand. SFB1265 Re-Figuration of Spaces. https://sfb1265.de/en/blog/you-are-kosa-thinking-with-the-yellow-sand/
Tess, M. (2023). Book review: The City and the Super-Organism: A History of Naturalism in Urban Planning. Urban Studies, 60(6), 1177-1179. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980231158030
Tess, M. (2022). The Natural Reserve of Ca’ Roman: Multispecies Care between Sea and Lagoon. In C. Baldacci, S. Bassi, L. De Capitani, P.D. Omodeo (Eds.), Venice and the Anthropocene (pp.115-117). Wetlands.
Tess, M. (2022). Doing politics with species. Modes of valuation, care, and conflicts among biodiversity conservation practices in the Venetian Lagoon: an ethnographic account. [Master degree dissertation, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia]. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/21267
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Workshops and Conference Organisation
January 2025.
Entangled Colonialisms of Europe and Asia. Multimodal Approaches to Decentering Eurocentrism. Critical Europeanisation Studies Lab – Ifee HU Berlin
October 2024.
Contingencies of Thermal Comfort: The Mediating Role of Architecture. Georg-Simmel for Urban Studies
2024-2025.
“Space Talks” – Pluralising Research Perspectives in Socio-Spatial Studies. SFB1265 Re-Figuration von Räumen
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Selected Conference Papers
October 2024, Berlin.
SFB1265 6th International Conference: Conflicts in Space – Spatial Conflicts. Insulation as a conflictual space
July 2024, Barcelona.
European Association Social Anthropologists (EASA). Measuring temperature as an act of atmospheric attunement and care: a case study from a park in Fukuoka, Japan
July 2024, Amsterdam.
European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). The emergence of cooling wearables, moving, working and dwelling in overheated urban environments. An ethnographic account from Fukuoka, Japan
February 2024, Dresden.
STSing.de. Leaky microenvironments: managing aerial leakages in Japanese architecture and fashion
August 2023, London.
Royal Geographical Society 2023. A just transition: infrastructuring thermal mitigation in the indoor and outdoor, public and private urban continuum in Fukuoka, Japan
January 2023, Berlin.
ERC Wave Matters Workshop HEAT MATTERS: Disturbing Air, Bodies, and Infrastructures with Indrawan Prabaharyaka. Goin’ where the wind blows: Climatope and Feng Shui equivocations