Alexandru Balesescu, PhD, is an anthropologist. He obtained his PhD in 2004 from the University of California, Irvine, with a thesis that was published as a book: Paris Chic, Tehran Thrills. Aesthetic Bodies, Political Subjects (Zeta Books, 2007). He explores different domains centred on personal curiosity and desire to understand human phenomena in a systemic manner. He is currently based in Bucharest, and also teaches at Royal Roads University, Victoria, Canada. He additionally consults in marketing research. Alec publishes regularly in both specialty and popular journals and think-tank publications, mainly on the topic of body, energy transition, urbanism, international politics, and more recently artificial intelligence. He regularly gives lectures in different universities around the world, most recently at the SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences, and Hainan University in China - the latter as part of the Royal Roads University permanent exchange programs he is part of. He is co-founder of the Nature, Art and Habitat Lab in Northern Italy (NAHR.IT) and of the Moving Matters Travelling Workshop at the University of California, Riverside. He is also a member of the Consulting Committee on Climate Action at Royal Roads University.

• Introduction: Between Nature and Technology.- ACT I: HERE AND NOW.- What’s (the) Matter?.- Body Matters.- Culture Matters.- ACT II - PAST TRACES OF THE FUTURE.- Knowing Nature.- Data, Facts, Reality.- Survey and Reward.- ACT III - WHERE TO?.- AI and diverse ways of knowing.- The Non-human Stakeholders.- What Now?.

Alexandru Balesescu, PhD, is an anthropologist. He obtained his PhD in 2004 from the University of California, Irvine, with a thesis that was published as a book: Paris Chic, Tehran Thrills. Aesthetic Bodies, Political Subjects (Zeta Books, 2007). He explores different domains centred on personal curiosity and desire to understand human phenomena in a systemic manner. He is currently based in Bucharest, and also teaches at Royal Roads University, Victoria, Canada. He additionally consults in marketing research. Alec publishes regularly in both specialty and popular journals and think-tank publications, mainly on the topic of body, energy transition, urbanism, international politics, and more recently artificial intelligence. He regularly gives lectures in different universities around the world, most recently at the SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences, and Hainan University in China - the latter as part of the Royal Roads University permanent exchange programs he is part of. He is co-founder of the Nature, Art and Habitat Lab in Northern Italy (NAHR.IT) and of the Moving Matters Travelling Workshop at the University of California, Riverside. He is also a member of the Consulting Committee on Climate Action at Royal Roads University.

• Introduction: Between Nature and Technology.- ACT I: HERE AND NOW.- What’s (the) Matter?.- Body Matters.- Culture Matters.- ACT II - PAST TRACES OF THE FUTURE.- Knowing Nature.- Data, Facts, Reality.- Survey and Reward.- ACT III - WHERE TO?.- AI and diverse ways of knowing.- The Non-human Stakeholders.- What Now?.

Alexandru Balesescu, PhD, is an anthropologist. He obtained his PhD in 2004 from the University of California, Irvine, with a thesis that was published as a book: Paris Chic, Tehran Thrills. Aesthetic Bodies, Political Subjects (Zeta Books, 2007). He explores different domains centred on personal curiosity and desire to understand human phenomena in a systemic manner. He is currently based in Bucharest, and also teaches at Royal Roads University, Victoria, Canada. He additionally consults in marketing research. Alec publishes regularly in both specialty and popular journals and think-tank publications, mainly on the topic of body, energy transition, urbanism, international politics, and more recently artificial intelligence. He regularly gives lectures in different universities around the world, most recently at the SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences, and Hainan University in China - the latter as part of the Royal Roads University permanent exchange programs he is part of. He is co-founder of the Nature, Art and Habitat Lab in Northern Italy (NAHR.IT) and of the Moving Matters Travelling Workshop at the University of California, Riverside. He is also a member of the Consulting Committee on Climate Action at Royal Roads University.

• Introduction: Between Nature and Technology.- ACT I: HERE AND NOW.- What’s (the) Matter?.- Body Matters.- Culture Matters.- ACT II - PAST TRACES OF THE FUTURE.- Knowing Nature.- Data, Facts, Reality.- Survey and Reward.- ACT III - WHERE TO?.- AI and diverse ways of knowing.- The Non-human Stakeholders.- What Now?.