CALL - Cities in Action for Learning LAB

📍 Three days of dialogue on imagining new urban futures, with six contributions presented by CALL!

From 10 to 12 June 2026, CALL - Cities in Action for Learning LAB joined the 28th SIU National Urban Planning Conference in Palermo titled « Future Places. Learning together to imagine our living ».

The team contributed across a variety of themes:

🤖 Data centre siting strategies and the digital transition 
🏢 City science and urban innovation in Amsterdam 
♻️ Climate-neutral urban planning
🧑‍🎨 Co-creative sustainable landscapes
🌍 Civic ecologies and environmental infrastructure in Milan
🫶 A new collaboration with Casa dei Diritti Sociali in Palermo on inclusive public services for migrants

Presented by our research group: Elena Acerbi, Matteo Giacomelli, Maryam Karimi, Irene Bianchi and Valeria Fedeli, alongside colleagues from CALL - Cities in Action for Learning LAB.

Read the full recap 👉 https://lnkd.in/emnSs45p

Stay tuned, the full papers will be published in the conference proceedings over the coming months on Planum Editore website!

ESPON Programme, CLIMABOROUGH, PALIMPSEST

What does co-creation look like at European scale? The answer might lie in NEBULE! 🌍

NEBULE is a cluster of 10 Horizon Research & Innovation projects, including , coordinated by Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani - Polimi at Politecnico di Milano. The cluster brings together a remarkable diversity of voices: social sciences and humanities, arts and technology, cultural and creative industries, academia, public institutions and civic associations; all working toward more sustainable, inclusive and meaningful futures.
 
At the New European Bauhaus Fair 2026, that dialogue was on full display. 🏛️
Grazia Concilio had the opportunity to present ’s vision and achievements to EU Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva (responsible for Start-ups, Research and Innovation) and to Enrico Giovannini, scientific director of ASviS (the Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development) and former Italian Minisiter.
 
A recognition that transdisciplinary research, when rooted in real places and real communities, reaches the right rooms. ✨

Seminar 🟡 Transformative Agencies in/for Contested Spaces #2 Envisioning Recovery

📍Spazio CRAFT, Building 11B - Campus Leonardo, Politecnico di Milano
💻 Online (link in bio)

The seminar explores recovery planning and presents the strategic and operative challenges of urban planning “compressed in time.” In contexts affected by large-scale destruction, particular significance is placed on the effort to (re)imagine future cities and territories amidst total uncertainty and the continuous evolution of conflict dynamics.

🤔 What should be preserved, and what should be rebuilt or “reinvented”? Which needs should be considered and prioritized? Whose knowledge should be included to support anti-fragile action? Which tools could be activated to mobilize resources and rebuild local (physical and relational) networks?

The seminar will reflect on these interrogatives, starting from the experience of the Ukrainian research and professional collective .ukraine.

Special guests: Marharyta Borysova and Anastasiia Popovych from .ukraine
In dialogue with: Valeria Fedeli, Barbara Piga, Nicola Colaninno, Alice Buoli, Maryam Karimi, Arxhenda Lipovica from .dastu.polimi.

👉 The event is part of the seminar series “Transformative Agencies in/for Contested Spaces”, curated by Maryam Karimi, Alice Buoli and me, and funded by .dastu.polimi

☀️ In the morning (9:30-11:00, Building 16B1.1) our guests will give a class to the students of the course « Fragility and antifragility in the spatial realm », hosted by Valeria Fedeli (slide 2)