Water Innovation Labs
STARTS AQUA MOTION project
The Water Innovation Lab brings together a diverse group of experts, visionaries, and practitioners from across the quintuple helix, spanning science, technology, the arts, industry, policy, and civil society. Each member contributes unique perspectives and skills to co-create solutions addressing regional and global water challenges. Their collaboration within S+T+ARTS AQUA MOTION helps to identify priorities, spark innovation, and explore new ways in which creativity, research, and technology can shape more sustainable water futures.
Members of the WIL
Riccardo Venturi
Riccardo Venturi teaches Theory and History of Contemporary Art at the Department of Arts plastiques at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. He deals with the relationship between visual arts and environmental humanities.
Valeria Lencioni
Valeria Lencioni is a biologist focused on invertebrate taxonomy, hydrobiology and stress ecology, author of 96-ISI papers. Fashinated by extreme habitats in the Alps, Karakorum and Arctic, she is studying the vulnerability to environmental changes of freshwaters, with an holistic approach from gene to ecosystem. Her research topics: ecology of springs, lakes and streams; effects of climate change on alpine biodiversity; adaptive biology of cold-adapted insects; response of invertebrates to thermal stress and pollution; ecosystem services analysis related to water resources.
Carmen Gonzalez
Carmen Gonzalez is an environmental engineer with a Master of Science in International Environmental Policy. Since 2017, she has been working in the field of environmental education with various associations in the Trentino region of Italy. She was part of the founding group of La Foresta, and from the very beginning, she has been actively involved in its co-creation process. Within her organization, her work includes group facilitation, project writing, and managing several projects within the eco-social field.
Francesco Natalini
Forestry PhD and technician at the managing body for the integrated water cycle in the province of Brescia, Acque Bresciane srl SB. With a strong focus on the relationship between humans and nature, I have explored topics such as environment, landscape, water, and sustainability in both academic and professional contexts. I have worked in complex settings that bring together human expertise, roles, and territorial perspectives. In STARS Aqua Motion, I support the artists with my technical and management experience, fostering a creative dialogue between science and the local area.
Anna Paola Lonardi
Anna Paola holds a bachelor’s in civil engineering and a double degree in environmental meteorology from the Universities of Trento and Innsbruck. During her master thesis she did an assessment of hydrological droughts using multivariate statistical methods in a highly regulated catchment. In Waterjade she handles technical works but she is also in charge of marketing and sales actions thanks to academic expertise combined with her past professional experiences.
Stefania Sansone
Stefania Sansone is an environmental engineer, PhD, deeply interested in hydrogeological hazards. She works at the Service for Torrent Control of the Autonomous Province of Trento, a public agency whose main tasks consist in:
- designing, constructing and maintaining active defense measures against alluvial hazards,
- handling communication on hydraulic hazards and strategies for managing the hydraulic risk
- preparing, verifying and updating the hydraulic hazard maps.