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KTH Climate Action Centre

Towards a RE-GENERATIVE AI: Charting Artificial Intelligence and Nature-based solutions for climate adaptation strategies

Workshop with KTH Environmental Humanities Lab and KTH Climate Action Center

Funded by the Lerici Foundation, this workshop aims at creating a platform for discussion and reflection linking diverse knowledge domains. The workshop will also produce a tangible outcome: participants in the roundtable discussion will create a dictionary (“glossary”), a collection of shared semantics, aimed at guiding technosphere practitioners (i.e., programmers, project managers, public institutions) to chart the Anthropocene. The workshop acknowledges funding from the Lerici Foundation and it is part of the MSCA Project LIBRA (Project number 101150729).

Time: Mon 2024-05-13 13.00 - Fri 2024-05-17 16.30

Location: KTH Climate Action Center, Teknikringen 43, 114 28 Stockholm

Language: English

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The workshop consists of two days with public presentations covering aspects of AI and NBSs foundations. The following two days will be used to co-develop the “RE-Generative AI” glossary. Participants are also invited to the TEDxKTH event (May 16th) tackling issues related to AI and sustainability.

Register for the open lecture days and for the making the glossary days. Lunch will be provided to registered participants!

Presenters at this workshop include:

  • Dr. Anna Sperotto, Assistant professor at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and Affiliated researcher at Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) in Bilbao (Spain)

  • Dr. Daniel Depellegrin, Marie Cure Post-Doctoral Research, University of Girona (Spain) and prospective Ramon y Cajal Fellow at the Fundación Instituto de Hidráulica Ambiental de Cantabria (IHCantabria)

  • Dr. Andrea Conte (ANDRECO), visual artist and also an environmental engineer PhD at Studio Andreco

  • Dr. Silvia Santato, consultant and project coordinator

Programme

Monday 13th May: - Artificial Intelligence for climate adaptation

Registration: 13th of May 13-16.30

Digital participation

During the afternoon, participants will learn about Artificial Intelligence, its foundations and related applications in climate change adaptation. Participants will discuss about the main challenges

  • 1 -1.15pm – Welcome and introductory remarks – Francesca Larosa, KTH

  • 1-15- 2pm – Crash course on generative AI – Fermin Mallor, KTH

  • 2-2.30pm – Artificial Intelligence for climate adaptation - Olof Mogren, RISE

Q&A and break

  • 3-3.30pm – The environmental impacts of AI – Francesca Larosa, KTH

  • 3.30-4pm – breakout groups

  • 4-4.30pm – Digital Twins: where we are, what are they and how can they be used in the built environment – Marco Molinari, Live-in-Lab

Closing of the day

Tuesday, May 14th – Nature for climate adaptation

Registration: 14th of May 9.30-16.30

​​​​​​​Digital Participation ​​​​​​​

  • 9-9.30am - Welcome remarks – Adam Wickberg, Environmental Humanities Lab and The Center of Excellence for Anthropocene History, KTH

  • 9.30-10am - Nature-based solutions: a bird-eye view – Anna Sperotto, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy

  • 10-10.30am - group breakouts and discussion

Coffee

  • 11-11.30am - The blue economy and blue nature-based solutions – Daniel Depellegrin, Marie-Curie PostDoctoral Fellow, University of Girona

  • 11.30 – noon - group breakouts and discussion

Lunch

  • 1-1.30pm – The Anthropocene: framing the great acceleration – Adam Wickberg, Environmental Humanities Lab and The Center of Excellence for Anthropocene History, KTH

  • 1.30-2pm – group breakouts and discussion

  • 2.30 -3pm - AI applications to nature-based solutions – Stefano Bagli, Gecosistema

  • 3-3.30pm – group breakouts and discussion

  • 3.30-4pm – Valuing nature: public art for climate adaptation – ANDRECO, Studio Andreco

  • 4-4.30pm – group breakouts and discussion

Closing remarks

May 15th – May 17th - Making the glossary

Registration: 15th of May- 17th of May ​​​​​​​

Digital participation ​​​​​​​

  • 10am – end of the day

Moderated by Silvia Santato, participants will create the Re-generative AI glossary in a collective and group-level effort to translate the concepts gathered during the open lecture days into usable knowledge.

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