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Simone Ferracina

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Senior Lecturer in Architectural Ecologies + MArch Programme Director, University of Edinburgh. BOOK: Ecologies of Inception: Design Potentials on a Warming Planet. Anti-fascist. linktr.ee/simoneferracina

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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
@edinburghcouncil.bsky.social very large screen on piersfield terrace is flashing/flickering and could be dangerous to/trigger some passersby.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/09/2025
Breaking News: The EPA moved to stop requiring polluters to report their emissions of greenhouse gases. The proposal would end a key tool the government uses to track carbon dioxide, methane and other gases that are driving climate change.
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E.P.A. to Stop Collecting Emissions Data From Polluters
The data, from thousands of coal-burning power plants, oil refineries, steel mills and other industrial facilities, is the country’s most comprehensive way to track greenhouse gases.
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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say
International Association of Genocide Scholars resolution backed by 86% of members who voted
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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
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60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
NEW: 18,500 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. The Washington Post has just published every single known name. A seminal moment.
The WaPa headline says: 60,000 Gazans were killed. 18,500 of them were children. These are some of their names. 

Then follows an enormous list of small print namesThousands of small print names interspersed with some photos of some of the child victims
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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
RIP Bob Wilson
Scene with two man dancing on chairs in Einstein on the Beach
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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Republicans re-designate gas as ‘green’ to allow fossil fuel firms to compete for clean energy funding. All forms of reality and shame replaced by the ‘right-wing thrill and sense of exhilaration’ (Butler) attained by the ability to be openly dishonest and irrational.
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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
And they won’t ever be held to account for the immense violence (hunger; sickness) caused by it.
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
The new Senate bill doesn’t just gut renewables. It includes massive giveaways to the fossil fuel industry. It exempts oil and gas drillers from paying corporate taxes. It gives coal companies a tax credit for burning more coal. It uses your tax dollars to subsidize climate destruction.
heated.world
The Senate is about to destroy clean energy to give tax cuts to billionaires
The bill could pass within the next 24 hours.
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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
“This thing called killing innocent people – it's been normalized. We were constantly told there are no noncombatants in Gaza, and apparently that message sank in among the troops." “No one stops to ask why dozens of civilians looking for food are being killed every day.” archive.ph/3LjoW
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 25/06/2025
Children in Gaza dying of thirst after trucks carrying water blocked - UNICEF
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Children in Gaza are dying of thirst, says UNICEF
UNICEF has warned that while the world's attention is focused elsewhere, the situation in Gaza is "at the worst it has ever been" with the Palestinian territory hitting "rock bottom".
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Trump’s attacks on Iran were based on vibes, not new intel, two administration officials tell Rolling Stone. “There is no intel,” one of the sources says. “The intelligence assessments have not really changed.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Millions of acres worth of public land would be put up for sale in the Senate version of Trump’s big, ugly bill. It’s a massive privatization of a public good that everyone gets to enjoy – all to finance tax cuts that predominantly flow to the super-rich.
wilderness.org
250+ million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR bill
The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in t
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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Judith Butler: “Ok, there are two genders: fascists and anti-fascists.” Brilliant. Via @avaitsopoulou.bsky.social
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
In a few short weeks, the Supreme Court may very well find in favor of a man who is suing to stop PrEP coverage for millions because he objects to theoretical possibility that someone he employs could one day access PrEP via insurance, and this "encourages and facilitates homosexual behavior."
 
B. The Present Controversy
1. Respondents are four individuals and two small 
businesses who object to Congress’s directive that 
health insurance issuers and group health plans gener-
ally must cover preventive services without cost shar-
ing. App., infra, 7a. Five of the six respondents “do not 
currently participate in the health care market.” Id. at 
62a; see D. Ct. Doc. 111-1, ¶ 5 (Jan. 6, 2023); D. Ct. Doc.
111-2, ¶¶ 5-6 (Jan. 6, 2023); D. Ct. Doc. 111-3, ¶ 5 (Jan. 
6, 2023). Those respondents nonetheless object to the 
ACA’s requirement that issuers and plans cover preex-
posure prophylaxis (PrEP) medications, which the Task 
Force has assigned an “A” rating based on their effec-
tiveness at preventing HIV infection in certain at-risk 
individuals. See D. Ct. Doc. 14, at 8, 10-11 (July 20, 
2020). Those respondents state that PrEP medications 
“encourage and facilitate homosexual behavior,” which
conflicts with their religious beliefs. Id. at 8.7
Braidwood Management is the only respondent that 
currently participates in the health insurance market. 
App., infra, 55a. Braidwood offers coverage to its ap-
proximately 70 employees through a self-insured plan. 
Ibid. Its owner wishes to exclude from that plan “cov-
erage of preventive care such as * * * PrEP drugs” 
because he “objects to coverage of those services on re-
ligious grounds.” Ibid. Braidwood does not allege, how-
ever, that any of its employees have ever sought cover-
age for PrEP medications.
2. Respondents filed this suit in the United States 
District Court for the Northern District of Texas. As 
relevant here, respondents contend that the Task 
Force’s structure violates the Appointments Clause, 
U.S. Const. Art. II, § 2, Cl. 2, because, in their view,
Task Force members are principal officers of the 
United States who have not been appointed by the Pres-
ident with the advice and consent of the Senate. App., 
infra, 8a. Respondents’ operative complaint seeks in-
junctive and declaratory relief but does not seek vaca-
tur under Section 706(2) of the Administrative Proce-
dure Act (APA), 5 U.S.C. 706(2). D. Ct. Doc. 14, at 13-
18. After this suit was filed, the Secretary ratified all 
Task Force “A” and “B” recommendations then cur-
rently in effect. D. Ct. Doc. 65, at 6.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 20/05/2025
14,000 babies are at risk of dying in the next 48 hours in Gaza if aid doesn’t reach them, warns Tom Fletcher, the UN’s under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs – a figure he called “utterly chilling.” 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/x26ghx
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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
David Farrier‘s new book, Nature‘s Genius: Evolution‘s Lessons for a Changing Planet, sounds amazing. I am also really pleased to have my work on exaptive design featured in the second chapter (The Living City), and to share his pages with so many other friends and collaborators. Highly recommended!
Image of the cover of David Farrier’s book
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Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
This is very good actionable advice for non-transphobes in the UK (I think all I can do is give $ so I will):
ucucommons.org
Take action now against the Supreme Court ruling and for trans rights
By UCU Commons A core value of UCU Commons is equality and dignity for everyone; but particularly for transgender and nonbinary people whose rights and wellbeing have faced increasing attacks over …
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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
This looks brilliant!
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Mary Annaïse Heglar @maryannaise.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
“I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that’s a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time.” ― Toni Morrison
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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Congratulations to the brilliant Mari Helland, whose work—developed in the MArch programme at ESALA, in the ‘Architecture as Support Structure’ studio run by @sepikar.bsky.social and Naomi De Barr—was just awarded the RSA New Contemporaries Medal for Architecture!
Photograph of ceramic architectural models of material harvest map
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Decent people thank Ukraine.
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Donald Tusk @donald-tusk.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 23/02/2025
Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.
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National Pride Service @prideservice.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The National Park Service is misremembering #Stonewall. We're here to help correct their mistakes! All of the original content for the Stonewall National Monument has been republished at realstonewall.com #trans #queer #LGBWithTheT #translivesmatter
realstonewall.com
The Real Stonewall Monument
The correct and original content for the Stonewall National Monument website that the National Park Service doesn't want you to see.
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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Every day we fall a little deeper into end-of-humanity levels of obscenity. Let’s not normalise racism, homophobia, transphobia, and the lack of any decency or nuance. This is not who we are.
theguardian.com
Trump says Palestinians have ‘no alternative’ but to leave Gaza
President in effect endorses ethnic cleansing of territory before hosting meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu
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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Mind boggling how the interest of pesticides manufacturers—a single company, in this case—are prioritised over people and land. Agricultural fumigants that are poisonous, toxic, and carcinogenic should simply be banned. Imagining ‘safe’ levels and thresholds of use/absorption is ecocidal and racist.
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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
You can currently get my book Ecologies of Inception: Design Potentials on a Warming Planet on the Routledge site with a 25% discount.
routledge.com
Ecologies of Inception: Design Potentials on a Warming Planet
Responding to increasing levels of planetary pollution, waste generation, carbon dioxide emission and environmental collapse, Ecologies of Inception re-thinks potentiality—an object’s ability to chang...
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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Last week, I caught-up with Lionel Devlieger and found out about this amazing retrospective of Rotor’s work, which includes an installation with films by Bêka & Lemoine. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to see it, but anyone living close to Brussels definitely should!!
bozar.be
Rotor through the lens of Bêka & Lemoine | Bozar Brussels
The collective is celebrating its 20th anniversary at Bozar with the French-Italian video artists and a series of films on the metaphysics of repurposing.
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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Good article by Duncan Baker-Brown. Any involvement in the NEOM projects (responsible for thousands of deaths and displacements) is simply unjustifiable from an ethical standpoint.
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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Wonderful to have this short essay on dispositions, affordances, and the ability to be otherwise on the @berlinergazette.bsky.social, available for free and in both English and German. Thanks Krystian for the invitation!
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BG | berlinergazette.de @berlinergazette.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
What might a conceptual and methodological design toolkit look like that addresses the durational + anthropocenic materiality of the 21C, radically prioritizing practices of maintenance, reuse, care + co-option? @simoneferracina.bsky.social explores this question. berlinergazette.de/dispositions...
berlinergazette.de
Dispositions, Affordances, and Being Otherwise: How to Reclaim and Unlock Environmental Potentials · BG · berlinergazette.de · EN|DE
What might a conceptual and methodological design toolkit look like that addresses the durational and anthropocenic materiality of the third millennium, radically prioritizing practices of maintenance...
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dubravka @dubravka.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
grateful for the invitation by @placesjournal.bsky.social to contribute to their field notes on repair. emilio distretti and I tried to offer a starting point from which to think what repair means in the ongoing afterlife of genocide placesjournal.org/article/fiel...
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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Welcome to BlueSky to the wonderful Moa Carlsson @moacarlsson.bsky.social!
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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
leeds.ac.uk
Gazan Humanitarian Scholarship
We offer scholarships for citizens of Gaza who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict in the region and are living in a different country (outside of the UK).
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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
My article ‘Yet’ for Vesper: Journal of Architecture, Arts & Theory is now available in open access. In it, I briefly discuss the semantic fluctuations of the adverb ‘yet’ in relation to dispositions, the built environment, repurposing, the difference between use and utilisation, and pollution.
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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
A few useful starter packs on architecture/landscape architecture/built environment:
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Justin Garrett Moore @jgmoore.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
placesjournal.org/article/fiel...
placesjournal.org
Field Notes on Repair: 4
The fourth installment of a series in which scholars, designers, planners, and activists share observations on practices of repair, preservation, and care.
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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 15/09/2024
Congratulation to Sonakshi Pandit, whose Radical Harvest project “Eco-Socialist Rituals across the Water of Leith” at ESALA has been shortlisted for the RIAS Rowand Anderson Silver Medal for Best Fifth Year student!
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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 31/08/2024
Excited to see my essay about opacity—and what architects can learn from the work of Édouard Glissant—published, in English and Italian, as part of the “Thinking Like a Mountain” project by @GAMeCBergamo . pensarecomeunamontagna.gamec.it/en/reclaimin...
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Reclaiming Opacity: Towards Errant, Exaptive and Monstrous Architectural Ecologies - Pensare come una montagna
In his Poetics of Relation, Édouard Glissant laments the enforced transparency of a French language “given in advance” and assumed to be fixed and absolute, and argues instead for dynamic…
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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 31/08/2024
Excited to see my essay about opacity—and what architects can learn from the work of Édouard Glissant—published, in English and Italian, as part of the “Thinking Like a Mountain” project by @GAMeCBergamo . pensarecomeunamontagna.gamec.it/en/reclaimin...
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Reclaiming Opacity: Towards Errant, Exaptive and Monstrous Architectural Ecologies - Pensare come una montagna
In his Poetics of Relation, Édouard Glissant laments the enforced transparency of a French language “given in advance” and assumed to be fixed and absolute, and argues instead for dynamic…
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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 24/04/2024
Humbling and exciting to win—with an MArch studio on earth construction, care, and reuse at ESALA; and with live-build projects for social enterprises and charities across the city—the Edinburgh University Students’ Association Teaching Award for Outstanding Course!
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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 28/01/2024
On the back of the ICJ ruling—utter madness.
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UK, US and other countries to pause funding for key UN aid agency for Palestinian refugees
Move by several countries comes after allegations that UNRWA staff took part in attacks on Israel last year
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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 27/01/2024
The Zero Waste Center designed by Hiroshi Nakamura in Kamikatsu, Japan, was already one of my favorite projects, but reading about how sophisticated the associated waste-sorting practices are makes it even better.
core77.com
This Japanese Town Sorts Their Waste Into These 45 Categories - Core77
In 2003, the Japanese municipality of Kamikatsu declared their intention to become a Zero-Waste Town. While true zero-waste is impossible, 20 years later the town has reached an impressive 80% recycli...
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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
“The risk, as ever, is that what starts off shocking soon enough becomes the new normal…When ‘tough economic times’ hit, it is remarkable how quickly the unthinkable becomes permissible. At least when it is happening to other people.”
theguardian.com
Think of this: a plan to ‘warehouse’ disabled people. What kind of nation is Britain becoming? |...
Cash-starved Bristol city council is not the real villain here, but its proposed strategy tells us some lives matter less than others, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
“The world should be ashamed”
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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 22/12/2023
First bout with Covid. Playing the gracious host.
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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 17/12/2023
I am reminded of what @maxliboiron.bsky.social and Josh Lepawsky call ‘scalar mismatches’, and of their definition of scale as ‘relationships that matter.’ So many environmental and political struggles seem to be about the protection and perpetuation of scalar mismatches over lives and futures.
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