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Autofficina Futuro, an interactive vision of where mobility is going

How will we travel and how will we live in 2086, 200 years on from when cars began? As part of the exhibition Motion, Autos, Art, Architecture conceived by the Norman Foster Foundation in collaboration with the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, sixteen schools of design and architecture from four continents have been invited to share their […]

Innovation House, a model worth exporting

“Innovation House has been an ambitious project and a considerable investment; it has put down the basis for valuable contacts in this corner of the world. After all, it’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes” Andrea Sianesi has no doubts about this initiative, which he strongly backed for Expo 2020 in Dubai, […]

RAISE HUB, take part in this survey and have a hand in redesigning tomorrow’s railway stations

Take this survey and join us: starting in June, we are trying to design the new face of Milan’s Rogoredo station. Politecnico di Milano, is conducting a Europe-wide study within its RAISE_HUB project. RAISE_HUB (RAIlway station multi-SErvice HUB) is using “tactical urbanism” to improve the spaces and services at the railway station of Milano-Rogoredo. Tactical […]

Food, sustainability and discovering the local area: Sondrio will tempt your taste buds

Sondrio “will tempt your taste buds” with its weekend “walks”, where you can take off in total freedom or join a rather “special” guide, it all depends on the walk you choose. On the 9th and 10th April 2022, Valtellina is throwing its doors wide open to visitors and tourists. You can try out one […]

Sensors for the bridge over the river Dora di Rhemes at Introd with Politecnico di Milano and CVA

In 2020, Fondazione Politecnico di Milano started working with CVA Spa – Compagnia Valdostana delle Acque – and Prof. Giovanni Menduni’s research team at Politecnico di Milano on a project to test solutions for monitoring hydraulic infrastructures using Brillouin distributed fibre optic sensors (D-FOS). The site chosen for the tests is the penstock bridge above […]

Hospital 4.0 with the Joint Research Platform for Healthcare Infrastructure

What will tomorrow’s hospitals be like? One answer comes from the synergy created between universities and companies to develop and test innovative research and infrastructure projects that can respond satisfactorily to the demands of the healthcare sector and the new requirements shaped by the current world healthcare situation. The newly-formed Joint Research Platform for Healthcare […]