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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

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CV

  • 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

    • 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

  • Workshops and Conference Organisation

  • 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