Event Type : Talks

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

A talk between Roberto Dulio and the artist Rancore

The future, before becoming such, is preconceived by thoughts, utopias, designs. Every design, especially one of architecture, when realized, leads to the materialization of the future. Then, that same design, is kept in an archive, along with unrealised projects that would have led to other possible futures and that can prompt, in turn, the invention of further projects for the future. This process generates a seamless virtuous relationship. This phenomenon occurs for architecture, science, and technology, which invest and mutate society. Artistic images, which in turn encourage and often anticipate research, also fit into this virtuous leap towards the future.

The Politecnico di Milano has therefore decided to consider the Centre Pompidou (1971-77), by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, one of the most visionary designs, now part of its archival heritage: this project will spark a dialogue on this phenomenon with rapper Rancore (Tarek Iurcich), an artist who increasingly bases his artistic imagery in a Cyberpunk dimension – his latest album is titled Xenoverso (2022) – , in precarious balance between memory and future.

The talk between Roberto Dulio, Rector’s Delegate for the Archive, Library, and Museum System, and the artist Rancore, will take place on June 6, at 6:30 p.m., at the Spazio Renzo Piano at Campus Leonardo, Politecnico di Milano.

The event will be held in Italian. It is open to all and free, subject to availability. No registration is required.

In case of rain, the event will take place at Patio di Architettura, Politecnico di Milano, Campus Leonardo, via Ampère 2 – Milano.

The initiative is part of the Archivissima calendar, the Archives Festival, taking place from June 5 to 8, 2025. Visit the dedicated page for our event.

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How do you come up with a research idea? How can you make your research more impactful? Should your idea be motivated by a problem or a unique dataset? This session will discuss different pathways to impactful and publishable research with specific examples. The session will also briefly cover some pointers on managing the review process.

Denish Shah is the Barbara and Elmer Sunday Professor of Marketing, Founding Director of the Social Media Intelligence Lab, and Executive Director of the Marketing RoundTable at Georgia State University. His research focuses on issues that lie at the intersection of marketing strategy, new technologies, and/or social impact of marketing. His research has been published in top journals such as the Journal of Marketing Research, Harvard Business Review, Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing, Sloan Management Review and several other outlets. He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Research on Customer Equity in Marketing. Dr. Shah’s research has been a finalist or winner of two early career awards recognizing excellence in research, nine best paper awards (including the prestigious MSI-Paul Root Award, ISMS Practice Prize, and the Robert D. Buzzell Award) and three dissertation-based awards. Dr. Shah has a PhD in Marketing from the University of Connecticut, USA.

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Suzan Oğuz received her Ph.D. from the Department of International Trade and Logistics at Akdeniz University (Antalya, Türkiye) in 2023. She worked as a Research Assistant at Çağ University (Mersin, Türkiye) between 2016 and 2023, and now holds the position of Assistant Professor at the same institution. She is currently conducting a postdoctoral research project at the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering (DIG) at Politecnico di Milano, funded by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK). Her research interests focus on sustainable logistics, supply chain management, and the integration of emerging technologies into logistics systems.