Matilde Moro

Culture journalist. A University of Westminster graduate in Journalism with an MA in Human Rights and Social Cultures at Goldsmiths University, Matilde works as a freelance journalist, writing about sustainable issues and culture. Her collaborations include Lampoon magazine, The Submarine, The Vision and Pangea. She is the co-founder of Origine, a magazine dedicated to Italian contemporary photography.

Bogotá Care blocks: a solution against unpaid work

Pain or pleasure? The opioid crisis in US

Augustus Hotel & Resort, Forte dei Marmi: a revenue of 16.4 million in 2023

Translators in Ukraine make humanitarian help possible, being their ears and voice

The use of AI in migration flows violates human rights: the European double standard

How to feel alive during the holiday? Try dark tourism

Heat decreases productivity: climate change and job loss, Indian textile industry

Digital death and Thanatechnology: What is this? Is it possible to live forever?

From Ukraine. Two million stories to begin to understand the war

American pop culture – how Gossip Girl predicted and started the erosion of privacy

Nothing is forever, not even diamonds: from the Antwerp diamond district

Art versus gentrification in Queens, New York: Malikah exhibition at MoMA PS1

Humans are still at the center of everything – Before the Storm, Pinault Collection

Advertising pollutes the brain – Adbusters fights, est. 1989

Queering, not finding answers: The Current III and the closing of a cycle at Ocean Space

De Angelis Testa family for Ca’ Pesaro: the biggest art donation since 1960

BIG and Vestre: the most efficient factory in the world is built in Norway

Renaissance in Ferrara – Palazzo dei Diamanti re-opening by Studio Labics

Regards Vénitiens: the exploited city seen with a reverse glaze. Nikos Aliagas

The failure of FTX means a new crypto crisis: where do NFTs stand?

Raw materials: What Goes Around Comes Around, Bosco Sodi, Palazzo Grimani in Venice

«A material waiting for its own language»: Webb Yates, building with stone

Migrants are still drowning in the Mediterranean: the European border control policies

Architecture, design, community: improving access to school in Madagascar with 3D printing

Over one billion people worldwide have no identification – blockchain as proof of identity?

Point William: a peninsula in Canada as an experimental site for architecture

Heating is the main polluter: Max Fordham and a Net Zero Carbon home in UK

A holistic design approach to operate the first climate neutral airport terminal

Henry Glogau makes self-sufficient, sun-powered water distillers in Chile and beyond

The first ‘Building Minds’ school in Madagascar will be using 3D printing

The Catholic Church land assets: the first ever map

Milano Ocean Week – A combination of video and sound: Dineo Bopape at Ocean Space

Milano Ocean Week: 2021 was the hottest year for the ocean with the worst acidification ever

Lands In-between: Georgia, a crossroad between East and West – Professor Kavadze explains

Shigeru Ban – Building temporary shelters for Ukrainian refugees with Paper tubes, fabric and safety pins

The need for a shift in the hospitality industry. Only a crisis produces real change

Global food security is not well managed: the effects of climate change and the war in Ukraine

3D printed house TECLA – using clay as a raw material will bring us a step closer

Wasteocene: «extracting water from waste should be made a priority». Matt Boczkowski, Aquaporin

Vertical Farming, Aeroponics: A forest of energy-efficient buildings communicating with each other

Fighting thermo inequity, natural packaging, controlled distribution: the JUST Water business model

Heatwaves, viruses, eco-anxiety: threats coming from climate change. In conversation with Francesco Tamilia

Olive oil production, Earth for insulation, Skylights for passive ventilation: Corrals project by DECA

Beside Habitat, Montreal. Reevaluating outdoor spaces in Canadian woods to reconnect with nature

Solving the water crisis: corporations are not investing enough

Who picks the fruit and vegetables that we buy at the supermarket? Our Invisible Hands exhibition

Saving the planet one building at a time: CLT panels and the future

From Afghanistan to Ukraine, posters to raise awareness: Now You See Me Mória

BUFA film studio at the heart of Berlin is being transformed by Fabrix: nature has to fit in

Clyde Climate Forest, Glasgow City: 18 million trees, but this is just a headline

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Reportage

Bogotá Care blocks: a solution against unpaid work

In Bogotá, 1.2 million women dedicate most of their time to unpaid care work. Mayor Claudia López opened the Care Blocks project

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Reportage

Pain or pleasure? The opioid crisis in US

Pain and Pleasure – The opioid crisis in the U.S. turned into an epidemic. It all started with OxyContin and its marketing campaign by Purdue Pharmaceutics

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Forte dei marmi

Augustus Hotel & Resort, Forte dei Marmi: a revenue of 16.4 million in 2023

«I value work attitude and ethics more than seniority» an interview with Giacomo Maschietto – Augustus Hotel & Resort owner and CEO – on how to face the challenges of the hôtellerie sector

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Reportage

Translators in Ukraine make humanitarian help possible, being their ears and voice

Ukrainian translators are often women who spent years abroad and learned other languages. They stepped up to help their country. A reportage from the war front

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Digital intelligence

The use of AI in migration flows violates human rights: the European double standard

EU, double standard in the use of Artificial Intelligence: protecting EU citizens on the one hand, violating migrants’ human rights on the other. Facial recognition to lie-detectors to GPS trackers

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Reportage

How to feel alive during the holiday? Try dark tourism

How tv series turned dark tourism form a learning phenomenon to the idolization of serial killers, drug lords, and satanic cults – for the fun of it

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Reportage

Heat decreases productivity: climate change and job loss, Indian textile industry

It will get worse for people living and working in cities. Heat rises and climatic events put jobs, and people’s safety at risk. The system must adapt. The case of India

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Digital intelligence

Digital death and Thanatechnology: What is this? Is it possible to live forever?

Death is the western social taboo par excellence. The digital age makes us question the inescapability of death. Social rituals are affected. Talking about death is a must

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Ukraine

From Ukraine. Two million stories to begin to understand the war

Mediterranea Saving Humans activated right after the Russian invasion. Always standing by the civilian population – the only real victims

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Digital intelligence

American pop culture – how Gossip Girl predicted and started the erosion of privacy

«It was once said that a person’s eyes are the window to their soul – that was before people had cell phones» – how American pop culture tell us who we are, and the privacy crisis

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naturally sourced

Nothing is forever, not even diamonds: from the Antwerp diamond district

Scandals linked to blood diamonds are coming back to Antwerp with the war in Ukraine. Zelensky speaks: «peace is more valuable than diamonds in shops»

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Exhibitions

Art versus gentrification in Queens, New York: Malikah exhibition at MoMA PS1

With rents rising 34% in a year, Malikah works to preserve Little Egypt identity against gentrification. Keeping the dual identity of immigrants intact. The exhibition at MoMA PS1

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Exhibitions

Humans are still at the center of everything – Before the Storm, Pinault Collection

Deconstructing the Western gaze: a post-naturalist aesthetic, the climate crisis – less a transformation than the visible manifestation. Before the Storm, Pinault Collection

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call to action

Advertising pollutes the brain – Adbusters fights, est. 1989

The Canadian magazine Adbustes was founded in 1989 by Kalle Lasn with a group of anti-capitalist activists. Today, it keeps thriving and fighting, with no ads

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Exhibitions

Queering, not finding answers: The Current III and the closing of a cycle at Ocean Space

Ocean Space 2023 program unfolded: a platform for inter-trans-cross-disciplinaries discourse. Simone Fattal and Petrit Halilaj & Álvaro Urbano use art to question and protest

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Exhibitions

De Angelis Testa family for Ca’ Pesaro: the biggest art donation since 1960

From artworks by Robert Rauschenberg, Mario Merz, Michelangelo Pistoletto to Marina Abramović. De Angelis Testa donation to Ca’ Pesaro and how public and private can come together

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architecture

BIG and Vestre: the most efficient factory in the world is built in Norway

Transparency, renewable energy, burnt wood and production flows. Optimizing to build the factory of the future: BIG and Vestre present The Plus

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architecture

Renaissance in Ferrara – Palazzo dei Diamanti re-opening by Studio Labics

Ancient and contemporary meet: architecture is a living art – the heritage of historical buildings must be made accessible and contemporary. Studio Labics vision

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Exhibitions, Humanities

Regards Vénitiens: the exploited city seen with a reverse glaze. Nikos Aliagas

Fondazione dell’Albero d’Oro hosts an exhibition by the Greek-French photographer Nikos Aliagas. Venice seen from the outside is all about respect and contamination

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call to action, naturally sourced

The failure of FTX means a new crypto crisis: where do NFTs stand?

Is the crypto crisis affecting NFT? Some see them as evil and some as the future of art. A model to be analyzed, to offer new perspectives

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call to action, Design & Architecture

Raw materials: What Goes Around Comes Around, Bosco Sodi, Palazzo Grimani in Venice

Art is not fixed: Sodi’s pieces change according to the environment – and people – they are exposed to. Bosco Sodi unveils the latest show at Palazzo Vendramin Grimani in Venice

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call to action, naturally sourced

«A material waiting for its own language»: Webb Yates, building with stone

Working with natural materials – «What would the retro-futuristic extension of the Tudor era be? ». Steve Webb goes back to the fork of the road where we went wrong in the construction industry

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call to action

Migrants are still drowning in the Mediterranean: the European border control policies

By its nature, the sea is a hard place to collect data. Using surveillance data with an inverted logic and data technology, Forensic Architecture denounces the human rights violations in the Mediterranean

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call to action

Architecture, design, community: improving access to school in Madagascar with 3D printing

Locals were involved, from work to sharing knowledge and design. Architecture must start from togetherness and can help improve access to education globally

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blockchain, call to action

Over one billion people worldwide have no identification – blockchain as proof of identity?

Migrations are ever more frequent, but guaranteeing identity when moving to a new country is not easy. Blockchain can help, according to Monique Morrow

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naturally sourced

Point William: a peninsula in Canada as an experimental site for architecture

2021 RAIC gold medal Shim-Stycliffe architects have developed a twenty-year-long project, on the same site, with the same crew

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call to action

Heating is the main polluter: Max Fordham and a Net Zero Carbon home in UK

Lead engineer Ali Shaw told us about the journey. From the idea to design and choosing materials. Sharing performance data and costs, he says, is a must to reach climate goals

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call to action

A holistic design approach to operate the first climate neutral airport terminal

«Airports are no longer just about travels; they are civic hubs», says CallisonRTKL, building the first net-zero airport

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call to action, naturally sourced

Henry Glogau makes self-sufficient, sun-powered water distillers in Chile and beyond

Glogau’s structure can be built with local waste: communities can use seawater, rainwater or water from polluted sources. Leftovers become a source of power for LED lights

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Digital intelligence

The first ‘Building Minds’ school in Madagascar will be using 3D printing

«Education is the answer to solving the problems we do have, and a lot of people are not addressing the issue of infrastructure», says Maggie Grouts

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Humanities

The Catholic Church land assets: the first ever map

«Some say that we are witnessing the sixth mass extinction: it is caused by a living organism: us», says Goodlands founder Molly Burhans

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Exhibitions, Humanities

Milano Ocean Week – A combination of video and sound: Dineo Bopape at Ocean Space

As part of The Soul Expanding Ocean #3 on show at Ocean Space, Dineo Seshee Bopape experiments with video, audio and physical objects to tell stories of and from the water

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One Ocean Foundation

Milano Ocean Week: 2021 was the hottest year for the ocean with the worst acidification ever

One Ocean chose Milan, Italian economic capital to host the First Ocean Week. The event will take place every year, and get us closer to the seas

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Humanities

Lands In-between: Georgia, a crossroad between East and West – Professor Kavadze explains

Russia and the west powers have a responsibility: guaranteeing all the in-between lands the right to exist and foster. None of the two can do it on its own

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call to action

Shigeru Ban – Building temporary shelters for Ukrainian refugees with Paper tubes, fabric and safety pins

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban builds partition systems with paper and fabric to guarantee refugees a human right to privacy

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call to action

The need for a shift in the hospitality industry. Only a crisis produces real change

«One of the possible outcomes of the financial crisis is that chains will be less inclined to throw away everything they already have and rebuild from scratch»

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call to action

Global food security is not well managed: the effects of climate change and the war in Ukraine

Wheat is a basic diet element, Russia and Ukraine are among the biggest producers. We followed current patterns across the globe with PhD Jonas Jägermeyr

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call to action

3D printed house TECLA – using clay as a raw material will bring us a step closer

«The first project of a house that can adapt to different climates». Architect Mario Cucinella, talking about TECLA, a collaboration with Wasp 3D printing

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call to action

Wasteocene: «extracting water from waste should be made a priority». Matt Boczkowski, Aquaporin

Ninety-nine percent of the world population has PFASs in their bodies from polluted drinking water. Improving water filtration can help regain consumer trust and reduce plastic waste

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call to action

Vertical Farming, Aeroponics: A forest of energy-efficient buildings communicating with each other

Professor Dickinson Despommier argues urban agriculture as the way to gor to manage feeding the cities of the future. Plenty Inc. start up ready with 541 million dollars

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call to action

Fighting thermo inequity, natural packaging, controlled distribution: the JUST Water business model

Water boxes have filtered more than four hundred thousand liters of water, saving up to a hundred forty thousand kilograms of Co2 and avoiding single-use plastic water bottles

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call to action

Heatwaves, viruses, eco-anxiety: threats coming from climate change. In conversation with Francesco Tamilia

An estimated nine million people die from pollution each year. More people have died from climate change than Covid. The climate crisis «is also a health crisis and must be dealt with accordingly»

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call to action

Olive oil production, Earth for insulation, Skylights for passive ventilation: Corrals project by DECA

«The process of building, destroys». When you work on an untouched landscape «you want to make sure you build something that integrates» on many layers: economy, nature and culture

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Montreal

Beside Habitat, Montreal. Reevaluating outdoor spaces in Canadian woods to reconnect with nature

Reevaluating the relationship with outdoor spaces. With urbanization on the rise and Eighty-two percent of people in North America now living in cities

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call to action

Solving the water crisis: corporations are not investing enough

Today, 711 million people already lack access to safe water. The UN estimates that by 2025 1.8 billion people will live in water-stressed regions. New technologies are available, but they lack funds

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call to action

Who picks the fruit and vegetables that we buy at the supermarket? Our Invisible Hands exhibition

From photography to diary entries and sound installations, Our Invisible Hands is an exhibition showcasing how some artists experienced being a seasonal worker, opening up the conversation

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call to action, Design & Architecture

Saving the planet one building at a time: CLT panels and the future

Cross Laminated Timber is a possibility for a more sustainable future, but to make it more widespread we need to increase production facilities and teach architects how to build with wood

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call to action

From Afghanistan to Ukraine, posters to raise awareness: Now You See Me Mória

«Right now we are exposed to so many photographs that we have become numb to the pain of others». The posters are made from pictures taken on the field by ordinary people

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call to action

BUFA film studio at the heart of Berlin is being transformed by Fabrix: nature has to fit in

Large areas of paving are removed, eliminating vehicles and adding water permeability and biodiversity with rooftop gardens and green plazas: Clive Nichol speaks for Atelier Gardens

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call to action

Clyde Climate Forest, Glasgow City: 18 million trees, but this is just a headline

«it’s what’s beneath the headline that matters». From choosing the right species for the right places to involving the community in giving trees their fair financial value

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