LUMEN Final Conference – October 2025

“You Need a Seed To Build a Table”

Ecosystem Approach and Rights of Nature, for a Resilient Territory and Community
Forlì, 10–11 October 2025

The final conference of the LUMEN project – Law of natUre and huMan Ecosystem approach, funded under the PRIN PNRR 2022 program, will be held in hybrid format on 10 and 11 October 2025 in Forlì. The event is organized by the project’s national coordinator, the research unit of Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna in collaboration with the University of Florence and the University of Trieste, partners of the project.

The conference aims to publicly present the interdisciplinary research paths developed within LUMEN, which is dedicated to building a transcultural eco-legal framework. The event’s title – “To Build a Table, You Need a Seed” – evokes the need to rethink the relationship between nature, law, and communities, from the perspective of ecological and social resilience grounded in the recognition of the rights of nature and the relational dimension of territories.

The conference will be held in hybrid format (https://unibo.zoom.us/j/91909947470). For more information, please write to Silvia Bagni, project coordinator. 

 📅 Final Programme

10:45 AM – Opening of the Conference

Part I – Energy at the core of Life

11:00 AM – Margherita Venturi (University of Bologna) – “Not to Clear the Periodic Table”

12:00 AM – Francesco Gonella (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)  – “Energy and Emergy: Models for an Ecosystemic Approach to the Rights of Nature"

1:00 PM – Lunch break

Part II – Voices from the World 

3:00 PM – Patricia Gualinga (Ecuador) – “Buen Vivir and the Struggles of the Sarayaku People for the Defense of the Rights of Nature”

4:00 PM – Bineta Gueye (Senegal) – “Agroecological Development Projects in Senegal: Women as the Driving Force for Sustainable Development”

7:30 PM – Community dinner

October 11, 2025

Romiti Neighborhood Hall, Via Sapinia 40, Forlì

9:00 AM – Ecological walk in the flood-affected areas in collaboration with the Romiti Neighborhood Committee, starting from Hotel Masini
10:00 AM – Presentation of project results – interventions by associations and civil society

Speakers:

- Enrico Milazzo, Gabriella Patera, representatives of the Climavore x Jameel at RCA project
- Luigi Conte, IMAD (Brazil)
- Isabella D’Isola, Pasquale Viola, Federation for the Rights of Lake Garda
- Eleonora Anghileri, Idra – Rights of the Venetian Lagoon and Northern Italy River Basins 
- Luca Cosentino, Wetlands
- Veronica Federico, Riccardo Arietti, Maria Chiara Boldrini, Rachele Cecchi, Giulia Fontanella, Alessandro Francescangeli, Anna Pettini, Maria Stella Rigoni, Research Unit, University of Florence
- Serena Baldin, Roberto Louvin, Research Unit, University of Trieste
- Silvia Bagni, Marc Brightman, Amilcare D’Andrea, Vanessa Grotti, Research Unit, University of Bologna

Conclusions: Ruchi Shroff, Executive Director of Navdanya International

1:00 PM – Community lunch