Gabriele Ferri

Maintainers Impact Fellowship 2025

Assistant Professor, Climate Café Bologna Project

Gabriele Ferri is an Assistant Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). His work explores the intersection of Design Justice and Transforming Practices, focusing on the intended and unintended consequences of design. With an emphasis on bottom-up processes, the right to repair, and climate justice, Gabriele collaborates with communities to challenge systemic injustice and co-create equitable alternatives. Frustrated by the unsustainable cycle of production, consumption, and disposal, he advocates for practices that prioritize care, repair, and extending the “long life” of design artifacts.

Impact Project: The Emilia-Romagna region in Italy, including Bologna, has faced severe flooding in May 2023, September 2024, and October 2024. These events have caused fatalities, significant damage, and displacement. Gabriele Ferri’s will organize Climate Café Bologna, five climate cafes, inspired by repair cafés, to foster informal, community-oriented spaces for sharing experiences and solutions. This project will be dedicated to documenting, adapting, and sharing community-driven practices that enhance climate resilience and recovery to territories damaged by flooding. These gatherings aim to capture and synthesize grassroots practices of adaptation, care, maintenance, and self-organization so that the Climate Café model can be adapted to other localities affected by climate  disaster.

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