At SDU FoodLab I look at food systems, agricultural policy/politics, green transition, landscapes and multispecies commons; and I am organising workshops and networking regenerative practice.

Other research include the history of climate ideas; social and environmental movements that are mobilising around climate related topics; and the systemic capacity to absorb and seamlessly integrate counter movements.

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Currently in the early stages of developing a living lab with the working title "cultiwilding" which entails explorations of a peasant consciousness in the context of permaculture design, regenerative and agroecological methods. The project involves creating a portfolio of ten designs as part of a Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design with the Nordic Permaculture Academy (NPA)

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As Honorary Research Fellow from 2017 to 2024 in the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR), which is part of the Research Institute for Sustainability, Equity and Resilience at Coventry University, I worked on the idea of magic, religion/philosophy, and science as three primary and complementary frameworks of meaning, particularly with reference to jurisprudence, commoning, agroecology, health, microbiology and prehistory, and to illustrate how soil, community, individual and planetary health are bound up with each other in the complex web of life that sustains us all.

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Background:
Studied in the School of Independent Studies at University of Lancaster, composing my own study plan (BA, MA: 1999-2003) for a transdisciplinary (computer science, history, law, philosophy, sociology) investigation of the nature of information technology - from cave paintings to extra-terrestrial networks - and the evolution of consciousness: How does technology shape human societies and vice versa?

Alongside my studies I participated in various social and environmental movements and made two documentaries with friends:

'genova citta aperta' - (Tortuga Films 2002 / 49 mins). Portrays impressions and expressions of the events surrounding the G8 meeting and the Genoa Social Forum in Genova, July 2001. Headliner of ‘Another World is Possible Film Festival’ / Asian Social Forum in Hyderabad, 2003. Shown by German television: hr-fernsehen.de

'DOGS RUN FREE' (2004) - (Tortuga Films 2004 / 33 mins). On EU's migration policies and the social movements who oppose them. Featuring interviews with undocumented migrant workers, scenes from a church occupation, and a self-incriminating spokesman for IOM. Widely shown in social centres

Then wrote a phd (2003-2010) on property relations and social movements with a case study on the hacker/Free Software movement, which was published in The Commoner. As part of the research I spent two years in the Amazon engaging with shamans and community leaders to understand the conceptions of ownership at play in their cosmovision. During this time I co-organised a workshop series on climate change for traditional healers.

This immersion helped further uncover my own racism and ignorance bestowed upon me through many years of European schooling and culture, a process that began in the mid-1990s, when I spent two years in India.