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Gaza Pheonix: knowledge for peace and reconstruction
CALL believes Gaza can rebuild itself, in its own way, with the help – because a great deal of help is needed – of those who recognise that Palestine exists: a state, with its own history, its own people, its own culture, and the right to live in peace rather…
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IFe Civic Lab: research, teaching and local action
Knowledge exchange between the university and local stakeholders lies at the heart of the IFe Civic Lab.
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Peripheral visions, rethinking planning: CALL at the 2026 World Planning Schools Congress
From June 29 to July 3, planning scholars from around the world gathered in Finland for the 6th World Planning Schools Congress, titled Peripheral Visions - Rethinking Planning and organised by AESOP.
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CALL at IMISCOE 2026: rethinking the digital gap in migrants’ access to public services
CALL Research Lab participated in the 23rd IMISCOE Annual Conference 2026, held in Girona, Spain, from 29 June to 2 July 2026.
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CALL in Palermo for the Italian National Conference of Urban Planners
On 10 to 12 June 2026 in Palermo, CALL took part in the 28th Conferenza Nazionale della Società Italiana Urbanisti (SIU), titled Future Places. Learning together to imagine our living (“Luoghi futuri. Apprendere collettivamente, immaginare spazi di vita").
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CALL in Brussels for the New European Bauhaus Fair 2026
What does co-creation look like at European scale? Last week, in Brussels, the New European Bauhaus Fair 2026 offered an inspiring answer, and CALL was part of it.
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TWINVERSE kick off in Turin: the CALL lab joins the consortium to build AI-enhanced climate-neutral cities
The TWINVERSE project officially launched in Turin, with a two-day kick-off meeting bringing together all 26 consortium partners and representatives from European cities.
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Migration and urban space, closing seminar
On 14 May 2026, the closing seminar of the cycle “Migration and Urban Space: Plans, Projects, and Policies”, organised by Paola Briata and Martina Bovo, took place at Politecnico di Milano as part of the #emergingUrbanQuestions initiative promoted by CRAFT at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU).
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Seminar on recovery planning with Restart Agency
What does it mean to plan for reconstruction in the midst of a conflict? To what extent can planning serve as a compass in conditions of radical uncertainty and help us "strategically navigate" in the face of evolving conflict dynamics?
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PALIMPSEST closing event: a celebration of three years of creative research
Three years of artistic research, cross-border collaboration, and creative experimentation came to a celebratory close at Politecnico di Milano, as the full PALIMPSEST consortium gathered for its final event.
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Landscapes in Trouble, Landscapes in Action: a new publication from PALIMPSEST
We are delighted to share the (open access) publication of Landscapes in Trouble, Landscapes in Action: Theories and Practices Between Space, Art and Ecology (Mimesis International).
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Entangling soil and sky: water, mycelium and meander as languages of landscape contamination
Reflections from the Łódź Pilot Project, PALIMPSEST On March 27th Francesca Berni took part in the IASLA National Conference 2026 “Contaminations”, contributing to the thematic track Representations with a reflection on how landscape can be read, imagined, and reconfigured through alternative ecological narratives and spatial practices. The contribution develops within…
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Lambrogino Award on World Water Day
On World Water Day, Sunday 23 March, the Lambrogino Award was bestowed at Casa di Quartiere Parea, in Milan's Ponte Lambro neighbourhood. Before an audience of local residents and institutions, the partner organisations behind the award presented the winning projects.
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Applications are now open for the first edition of ‘Lambrogino 2026: guardians of the river’
Aperte le candidature alla prima edizione del "Lambrogino 2026: i custodi del fiume" È ufficialmente lanciato il Premio Lambrogino, promosso nell’ambito delle attività del pilota milanese del progetto PALIMPSEST.
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IMMACCHINARIUM event: education, ecology and community at Parco Lambro
On Monday 23 February, Osservatorio per il Paesaggio Fiume Lambro Lucente hosted an afternoon event to present the project “E o Lambro sta a guardare”, developed in collaboration with the Civica Scuola Arte & Messaggio.
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PALIMPSEST presented at HeritACT in Milan
On Saturday, 14 February, Talita Medina represented the PALIMPSEST project at the final event of the HeritACT Milan pilot, held at Cascina Sant’Ambrogio.
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Echoes of Separation, Recognition, and Co-existence
Reframing migration as a process, through photography and storytelling Earlier this month, Maryam Karimi participated in the opening of the photographic exhibition “Echoes of Separation, Recognition, and Co-existence” at Unterhaus Galerie in Oberhausen, Germany.
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PALIMPSEST consortium meeting in Pilsen: two days of exchange and inspiration
On January 29th and 30th, CALL represented by Grazia Concilio and Talita Medina, together with the PALIMPSEST partners, were hosted by colleagues from the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art in Pilsen, Czech Republic.
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PALIMPSEST at the SONE Final Event
Transdisciplinary Practices at the Intersection of Art, Landscape, and Climate Research At the end of the year, the PALIMPSEST Coordination Team travelled to Jerez de la Frontera to participate in the final event of the SONE project (Songs of Nearby Earth / Cantos de la Tierra Cercana).
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Irene Bianchi visiting at Aalborg University of Copenhagen
During the autumn, Irene Bianchi carried out a 3-months visiting research period at Aalborg University Copenhagen (AAU KPH), hosted by the CREATE – Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology.
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DIGIREG at the ESPON seminar in Aalborg
Grazia Concilio and Michelangelo Secchi from CALL joined the ESPON seminar in Aalborg in November 2025. The event was an occasion to present the latest findings from the DIGIREG project, which seeks to map the evolution of digitalisation across European regions.
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Presentation of the Lambrogino Prize at ‘Contratti di Fiume’
On Thursday, November 13th, the Lambrogino Prize, together with IMMACCHINARIUM, was presented during the Contratti di Fiume working day, in dialogue with numerous actors engaged in the future of the Lambro river territory. From the standpoint of CALL’s research trajectory and within the Horizon Europe project PALIMPSEST, Prof.
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Insights from a successful study day: “Planning for climate neutrality: Governance models in dialogue”
Building on the dialogue among Horizon Europe projects working on climate neutrality, this study day hosted at CRAFT at Politecnico di Milano offered a comparative discussion on the climate transition pathways, also building on the experience of four Italian cities. The event brought together policy specialists, researchers, students and more.…
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What makes you feel good today? A collective dialogue on security in changing times
The ORBIS project, coordinated by Francesca Rizzo from Polimi Design Department and co-coordinated by Grazia Concilio from Polimi DASTU, has launched a large-scale European dialogue through its digital platforms to engage thousands of people in a shared reflection on a question that is more urgent than ever: What makes us…
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Monday, September 22: CALL joins the general strike for Gaza
Monday, September 22: CALL joins the general strike for Gaza.
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“Human and Digital Rights for Inclusive Public Services” published by the Italian National Observatory on Social Policies
We are proud to announce that the publication “Human and Digital Rights for Inclusive Public Services”, written by Maryam Karimi, Giada Casarin, and Grazia Concilio, was published on September 9, 2025, by the Italian National Observatory on Social Policies (Osservatorio nazionale sulle politiche sociali).
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PALIMPSEST 2nd residential workshop in Jerez de la Frontera
News from Jerez de la Frontera, where the 2nd PALIMPSEST Residential Workshop was held from June 23rd to 28th.
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DIGIREG talks Digital Transition and Territorial Development at the AESOP 2025 Congress
Last week, during the AESOP 2025 Congress in Istanbul, the ESPON DIGIREG group (Grazia Concilio, Daniele Viarengo and Zintis Hermansons) coordinated a round table titled “Integrating digital transition and territorial development: a co-evolutionary approach”.
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Talita Medina gives a lecture on Urban Design at Zhejiang University
On Friday, July 4th 2025, Talita Medina delivered a lecture as part of the course Streetscape Design & Urban Environment Renewal Design at the Zhejiang University of Technology in Hong Kong.
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PALIMPSEST at the JRC Seville ceremony
On 30 June 2025, our Irene Bianchi represented PALIMPSEST at the official "first brick" ceremony of the new Joint Research Centre (JRC) site in Seville! This landmark event marked a significant step forward for the New European Bauhaus (NEB) initiative, celebrating the launch of what will be the EU’s first net-positive emissions building.
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