The Space of Inequality. Environment, Mobility, Citizenship
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The Space of Inequalities. Environment, Mobility, Citizenship
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Within the framework of the 24th Milan Triennial International Exhibition “Inequalities,” the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies and CRAFT, Politecnico di Milano propose a collective reading and narrative on inequalities from a territorial perspective, through a contribution structured in three thematic lunges:
• the different impact of extreme weather phenomena and prolonged exposure to health-damaging conditions
• the different opportunities for access to resources and limitations to mobility
• the lack of full citizenship rights due to processes of exclusion from housing and services
The three issues addressed by the DAStU working group are represented at two different scales and with two different types of materials. On the one hand, an immersive installation in three short films with testimonies from international experts takes stock of environmental, mobility/migration, and access to housing and services issues at the global scale.
On the other, a model of the Milan area accompanied by the projection of maps and data shows how the same issues are declined in this metropolitan context.
The short films feature interviews with:
Amita Baviskar, Ashoka University;
Eric Klinenberg, New York University;
Sophia Schuff, Gehl – Making Cities for People;
Desmond D’Sa e Bongani Mthembu, South Durban Community Environmental Alliance;
Shahram Koshravi, Stockholm University;
Luce Beeckmans, KU Leuven;
Steven Farber, University of Toronto Scarborough;
Rafael H. M. Pereira, Ipea/Brasil;
Raquel Rolnik, Universidade de São Paulo;
Gudrun Biffl, Danube University Krems;
Xavier Bonal, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Interviews by:
Martina Bovo, Marta Cordini, Maryam Karimi, Giovanni Lanza, Farah Makki, Eugenio Morello, Gloria Pessina, Marco Peverini, Paola Piscitelli, Paola Pucci, Doruntina Zendeli
Short films for immersive installations:
Paola Piscitelli (coordinamento, soggetto, regia, concept installativo, ricerche archivi e montaggio), Paolo Turla (montaggio), Saverio Damiani (suono e concept installativo), Nora (animazioni)
Physical model and data projection:
DAStU: Nicola Colaninno (coordinamento, progettazione, dati e mappe), Gabriele Stancato e Doruntina Zendeli (dati, mappe ed elaborazione proiezioni), Eugenio Morello e Barbara E. A. Piga – LABSIMURB (supervisione modello e proiezioni), Valeria Fedeli (supervisione testi), Nilva K. Aramburu Guevara, Martina Bovo, Massimo Bricocoli, Lorenzo Caresana, Grazia Concilio, Alessandro Coppola, Marta Cordini, Mohamed Elgohary, Maryam Karimi, Giovanni Lanza, Cristiana Mattioli, Andrea Parma, Marco Peverini, Paola Pucci, Daniele Viarengo (dati e mappe), con il supporto di Francesco Curci, Viviana Giavarini, Fabio Manfredini (MAUD – Mapping & Urban Data Lab). Politecnico di Milano: Renato Aiminio e Barbara Sironi – LaborA (stampa modello 3D)
The exhibition is open until November 9, 2025
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Summer School of the Laboratorio del Cammino 2025
ENABLE MADONIE is the eighth edition of the itinerant Summer School promoted by the Laboratorio del Cammino (LdC), an inter-university network of researchers that develops research and teaching projects aimed at exploring the possibilities of walking in urban planning and design. The goal of this eighth edition is to understand how walking, seeing, listening, and slowly and deeply entering places are essential practices for cultivating an “alternative gaze” on inner peripheral areas—one capable of going beyond statistical normalization and stereotypes about “peripherality”.
Accompanied by professors, researchers, residents, and local actors, students will be guided to produce a place-based knowledge that is situated, plural, and co-produced in the Inner Area of the Madonie. This will involve hybridizing methodologies and forms of knowledge to critically and constructively reflect on new forms of interaction between humans and nature unfolding along the mountain ridge. Through the lens of Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES), participants will be encouraged to explore the values that connect people and nature within the area’s socio-ecological system. They will produce both relevant technical descriptions and conceptual maps of space in relational terms—highlighting conflicts and resistances, assembling data and perceptions, fragments and ferments of transformation.
The Summer School will take place from August 25 to September 4, 2025, and will consist of a walking journey across the territory, starting from Geraci Siculo and arriving in Cefalù (Palermo). A path from the "bone lands" of the Madonie hinterland to the "flesh territories" (Rossi Doria, 1958) of the Tyrrhenian coast, where participants will experience that “descending history” (Calvino, 1946) which has marginalized mountain-rural areas—bringing into question both the prevailing economic-cultural model and the alternative imaginaries produced along the route.
To apply, please send by Friday, June 6, 2025 an academic CV, a motivation letter, and two projects representative of your academic carrier, to the following email address: laboratoriodelcammino@gmail.com.
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Milano MetroHUB Centre on Metropolitan Dynamics
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Milano MetroHUB Centre on Metropolitan Dynamics is an initiative of Politecnico di Milano and CRAFT (Competence Center Anti-fragilieTerritories) in collaboration with UN-Habitat, .
Milano MetroHUB Centre focuses on addressing the complex challenges of urbanisation and leveraging metropolitan areas' potential as engines of sustainable development and human prosperity. The collaboration seeks to develop innovative solutions through knowledge exchange, research, and collaboration.
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The Centre's mission is to focus on three main interconnected goals:
1) Metropolitan learning circle and high-level education and training: Design and deliver new tailored learning spaces and tools open to master students, civil servants, experts, policymakers
2) Science for/in metropolitan diplomacy: Contribute to making visible the new metropolitan dimension of the urban and its implications in the research and policy arenas involved in urban transitions while collaborating with international networks working on metropolitan subjects.
3) Metropolitan research and practice interface/ pilot projects: Promote and support innovative research projects inspired by critical theory and interested in addressing operative policy questions and problems by promoting design spaces generated at the intersection of academics, policymakers, and civil servants.
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• We provide specialised research, capacity building, and consultancy expertise for metropolitan cities and city-regions, focusing on trans-scalar processes, the role of urban design and planning, new built form types of metropolitan architecture, urbanity through collective landscapes rethinking urban borders.
• We offer a trans-disciplinary, design-oriented and place-based approach oriented to social impact.
• We share networks and relationships.
• We can provide low-cost or pro-bono input to local authorities across the world.
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