NEWS
NEW WORKSHOP: URBAN CONFLICT MAPPING AS A DESIGN RESEARCH APPROACH FOR ENABLING PEACE ECOSYSTEMS
March 5, 2025
We are excited to announce a new design workshop! Two days dedicated to exploring Milan’s urban fabric as a complex ecosystem where tensions, conflicts, and opportunities for transformation intersect.
This Passion in Action, organized in collaboration with PUC Rio and led by Professors Stefano Maffei, Massimo Bianchini, and Visiting Professor Claudio Magalhães, offers a unique opportunity to experience how research and design can act as catalysts for social change. Participants will investigate urban conflicts, using design tools and practices to contribute to the construction of peace ecosystems.
Through a practical and interdisciplinary approach, participants will map conflicts related to Milan’s urban food system, identifying the systemic, structural, social, and environmental injustices that shape them. They will also test and implement a specially designed urban conflict map while experimenting with strategies for data collection, analysis, and visualization.
WORKSHOP “DESIGN FOR PEACE ECOSYSTEM” CONCLUDES WITH COLLABORATIVE SHOWCASE
June 5, 2024
The “Design for Peace Ecosystem” workshop concluded today in an inspiring event. Students from Politecnico di Milano, PUC Rio, and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana shared the projects they worked on throughout the semester in a collective moment. This joint initiative fostered a spirit of cross-cultural and interdisciplinary collaboration, with participants presenting innovative and impactful solutions to social, environmental, and economic challenges. The event highlighted the power of collective creativity and the potential for design to make a positive difference in the world.
OPEN CALL: DESIGN FOR PEACE ECOSYSTEM WORKSHOP
February 1, 2024
POLIMI, JAVERIANA BOGOTA’, and PUC RIO are announcing open calls to select local participants for the “Design for Peace Ecosystems” workshop.
Open Call POLIMI: