New media thinker and editor from Italy, living between Milan and Amsterdam. Her specialty is popular culture, with particular interest in nature, technology, design, fashion, travel and Internet culture.
Alessia manages the Next Nature Network’s online communication, blog and website since 2013.
Next Nature Network is a 21st century nature organization, founded in 2006 by Dutch artist and philosopher Koert van Mensvoort and designer Hendrik-Jan Grievink, that wants to go forward – not back – to nature.
They stir debates, create events, exhibitions, publications and products that bring biology and technology into balance. Virtual worlds, printed food, living cities, wild robots; we are so surrounded by technology that it’s becoming our next nature. How can we live in harmony with it?
Next nature is the nature caused by human culture. That may sound like a contradiction, but really it isn’t. Our technological world has become so intricate and uncontrollable that it became a nature of its own. This means we have to re-investigate our notion of nature.
