Olivia Bina

Lisbon

I have a longstanding interest in the evolving relationship with nature and its implications for 21st-century challenges. I focus on nature-based urban transformative change, critiques of scarcity and growth, and the unlimited potential of human-nature connectedness to progress beyond traditional notions of development. I am a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences–University of Lisbon and a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. My journey is necessarily interdisciplinary, with a degree in Political Sciences (Statale di Milano), Masters and PhD in Geography (University of Cambridge), and Masters in Landscape Architecture (Università di Cagliari). I love trees, catching an early moon-rise, gardening, and creating something beautiful from a lump of clay.