Event Type : Conferences

THE ROLE OF THE UNIVERSITY IN FRAGILE TERRITORIES – INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
5-7 May 2025

The international conference “The Role of the University in Fragile Contexts” aims to foster a dialogue between Italian, Latine American and international experiences about how universities interpret and enact their public role in contexts characterized by social fragility and increasing inequalities. The event will focus on addressing the challenges of knowledge co-production and fostering collaborative learning processes within and with marginalized territories and communities as a way to develop more just, inclusive, and usable research.

The conference is framed into the PRIN PNRR project “Urban co-production and inclusive planning in marginalized contexts”, and it is supported by CRAFT – Competence Centre for Anti Fragile Territories of DASTU Politecnico di Milano and carried out in collaboration with the research network Tracce Urbane.

Scientific officers: Francesca Cognetti e Alice Ranzini (DAStU Politecnico di Milano)

Monday, May 5 | h. 2:30 – 6:00 pm
@Off Campus San Siro
Off Campus San Siro: an urban living lab within a multicultural public housing neighborhood
Lectures and visit to the neighbourhood by CURAlab, DASTU Politecnico di Milano

Tuesday, May 6 | h. 9:30 am – 6:00 pm
@ Aula Magna Politecnico di Milano
Welcome by Rector Donatella Sciuto
Panel 1. Positioning. Co-research and knowledge coproduction
Lecture by Ana Fernandes, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil
Panel 2. Training. Building capacities through collaborative learning
Lecture by Humberto Tommasino, Universidad de la República, Uruguay

Wednesday, May 7 | h. 9:30 am – 1:00 pm
@ E.N. Rogers Room Politecnico di Milano
Panel 3. Acting. Urban Laboratories in marginal contexts
Lecture by Kenneth Reardon, UMass Boston, USA

Free entrance, no registration required
To see the complete programme: www.curalab.polimi.it

From May 6 to June 13, 2025, the 12th edition of MANTOVARCHITETTURA will take place, whose theme, “Architecture and Conflict,” will address the problem of armed conflict, forced migration, and climate change in contexts such as-among others-Gaza, Ukraine, Syria, Myanmar, Sudan, and Yemen. Within this framework, MANTOVARCHITETTURA 2025 investigates the connection between architecture and conflict by analyzing the complexity of this binomial according to different cultural and disciplinary perspectives, and through the dialogue between multiple historical-critical narratives, in a contemporary perspective.

MANTOVARCHITETTURA invites students, professionals and citizens to an open discussion on the implications of architecture in these scenarios, stimulating a deep and multidisciplinary dialogue. The event investigates four different perspectives of conflict: architecture and armed conflict, conflicting memories, conflicts of interest and inner conflict. These paths offer alternative and complementary viewpoints to analyze architecture’s contribution to understanding and managing conflict.

MANTOVARCHITETTURA is an event launched in 2014 within the UNESCO Chair in Architectural Preservation and Planning in Heritage Cities, favored by the international dimension in which Mantova and the Politecnico di Milano are placed. The main protagonists have always been the students, who have the opportunity to listen to and meet architects from all over the world who develop the new architecture starting from the knowledge of the ancient roots of this art, thus making the confrontation between masters and students lively, in a perspective founded on the value of history as a ground on which to cultivate the design of living spaces.

Discover the full program on the website mantovarchitettura.polimi.it

From May 6 to June 13, 2025, the 12th edition of MANTOVARCHITETTURA will take place, whose theme, “Architecture and Conflict,” will address the problem of armed conflict, forced migration, and climate change in contexts such as-among others-Gaza, Ukraine, Syria, Myanmar, Sudan, and Yemen. Within this framework, MANTOVARCHITETTURA 2025 investigates the connection between architecture and conflict by analyzing the complexity of this binomial according to different cultural and disciplinary perspectives, and through the dialogue between multiple historical-critical narratives, in a contemporary perspective.

MANTOVARCHITETTURA invites students, professionals and citizens to an open discussion on the implications of architecture in these scenarios, stimulating a deep and multidisciplinary dialogue. The event investigates four different perspectives of conflict: architecture and armed conflict, conflicting memories, conflicts of interest and inner conflict. These paths offer alternative and complementary viewpoints to analyze architecture’s contribution to understanding and managing conflict.

MANTOVARCHITETTURA is an event launched in 2014 within the UNESCO Chair in Architectural Preservation and Planning in Heritage Cities, favored by the international dimension in which Mantova and the Politecnico di Milano are placed. The main protagonists have always been the students, who have the opportunity to listen to and meet architects from all over the world who develop the new architecture starting from the knowledge of the ancient roots of this art, thus making the confrontation between masters and students lively, in a perspective founded on the value of history as a ground on which to cultivate the design of living spaces.

Discover the full program on the website mantovarchitettura.polimi.it