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Writings
These are links to my publication in books, popular magazines and academic journals. Below this, you will find my blog.

Understanding and evaluating transdisciplinary art-science innovation beyond economic value
Publication with Technovation Journal

The Historical Coproduction of Knowledge and Politics in the Circular Economy
Publication with Nature + Culture Journal

The Myth of Sisyphus and Carbon Capture Removal
Article published with Resilience.org

Analysing the Circular Economy as a Myth. Semiotics
Dialogues for Degrowth. Publication with Edward Elgar

Spatial Impacts of Economic Growth
Publication with University of Vigo

Sustainability is Not a Problem for Technology to Fix
Article with TELOS Magazine

Letter. The Future of the Anthropocene?
Letter published by The Economist

Vertical Taxis. Is it Worth Privatising the Sky?
Article with The Conversation

Kandinsky and the Circular Economy
Article published by ReTrace

The Ancient City and the Modern City in Italy 1860-1914
Phd thesis with the University of Cambridge

Epidemic Urbanism. Cholera, the Roman Aqueduct, and Urban Renewal in Naples, Italy, 1860–1914
Publication with Intellect

Roman Planning as a Model for Urban Modernity in Liberal Naples
Publication with Oxbow Books

Ildefonso Cerdà and the Eixample Grid Plan: to be or not to be Rome (1858)
Publication with Oxbow Books

Decolonising the Roman Grid
Publication with Oxbow Books
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Philosophical Dialogues in Kaos
Welcome to the Home of the Vortex of Chaos This bizarre dimension ignores the laws of physics. Atoms fall like drops of rain through...
Sofia Greaves
Oct 6, 20246 min read
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Arts @ Degrowth ESEE Conference 2024
Reflection on arts based sessions at the Degrowth ESEE Conference 2024
Sofia Greaves
Jun 30, 202411 min read
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Arts-based research & commoning
Explaining the arts-based research process in our transdisciplinary project on Galician witchcraft An air is a song-like vocal or...
Sofia Greaves
Dec 18, 202311 min read
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Mushrooms & the dark arts
Witches, mushrooms and legends in Galicia
Sofia Greaves
Oct 15, 202311 min read
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we must cultivate our garden?
philosophical reflections on gardening and cultivation in the context of degrowth and European agricultural policy.
Sofia Greaves
Jul 24, 202315 min read
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Myths about Fascism debunked
Friday night we went to ANPI through a tiny green metal door. Inside: lime yellow tiles, red fabric lights and salmon plastic sofas. NO...
Sofia Greaves
Mar 27, 202313 min read
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Diary, week with a snail
Snails, socially applied art and its relevance for Degrowth via ecological economics, agriculture and food culture
Sofia Greaves
Jan 29, 202310 min read
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Sisyphus, Science & Carbon Removal
The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal report discussed through the myth of Sisyphus
Sofia Greaves
Jan 22, 202317 min read
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Nuclear bee hives
Short poems written about the Deliberative Democracy festival at the Joint Recent Centre, Ispra, 2022.
Sofia Greaves
Oct 21, 20227 min read
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My paintings, sea-slugs & post-development theory
Oct 9, 2022 Jacob taught me and Jo the stars this weekend using a circular chart which you line up with the sky according to the time of...
Sofia Greaves
Oct 9, 202211 min read
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Windpower, relationships and sausages
Over the past month I have been dreaming of my ex boyfriends, which is disturbing, but apparently you can sort this out by writing them...
Sofia Greaves
Sep 25, 20227 min read
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Vertical Taxis. The future?
The social implications of Vertical helicopters and technological mobility changes via Vertical Aerospace
Sofia Greaves
Feb 1, 202212 min read
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Eiffel Tower Economy
Standard ‘clock time’, was introduced in the late nineteenth century. The system was consolidated at the International Conference for...
Sofia Greaves
Oct 16, 20216 min read
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Post-doct @ Prospera: 'Imagine a New Society'
After researching ideal cities of the nineteenth century, I became obsessed with the idea that there must also be ideal cities in present...
Sofia Greaves
May 7, 20216 min read
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Kandinsky and the Circular Economy
Recycling is not a magic circle; it is more of a Kandinsky painting.
Sofia Greaves
Feb 21, 20215 min read
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The Degrowth City?
We need to put Degrowth and Urbanisation together The phrase ‘without growing’ seems to imply stasis, or ‘inactivity’. This impression...
Sofia Greaves
Feb 3, 20218 min read
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Can we talk about Fascism today?
There are problems with the Italian representation of the ancient Roman city in the public sphere. This was startlingly obvious at the...
Sofia Greaves
Jan 2, 20215 min read
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Cities as Palimpsests?
Many cities have classical origins, because in the ancient Greco-Roman world, founding, building, talking about and destroying cities was...
Sofia Greaves
Dec 16, 20202 min read
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Development and utopia
I remember being taught in geography that Gross Domestic Product could reveal which nations were 'developed'. UK and USA were at the top...
Sofia Greaves
Dec 6, 20202 min read
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Cheese-grater year
Some people know that I see the year as a cheese grater. It’s not clear why this happened, but it has a very specific shape. January sits...
Sofia Greaves
Nov 14, 20203 min read
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