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CITY BOOTCAMP MILAN - RETHINKING CITIES BEYOND THE HUMAN

Enrollment: from 05-05-2026 to hour 12:00 on 15-06-2026
Enrollment open
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Language: ENGLISH
Campus: SPAZIO ESTERNO AL POLIMI, AULA VIRTUALE, MILANO BOVISA
Subject area: Soft skill, personal and career development|Tools
Practical activities Intensive Schools Frontal teaching Experimental laboratory Workshop
Docente responsabile
DAVIDE FASSI
CCS proponenti
Design degli interni - Interior design e Interior and Spatial Design
CFU
3
Ore in presenza
40
Prerequisiti
The City Bootcamp is open to all university students interested in regenerative practices, urban and social transformation. The Summer School is intended for students who are motivated to: Work in interdisciplinary environments;Engage with critical and non-conventional approaches;Take part in collaborative and field-based experiences. The Summer School welcomes architects, designers, (environmental) engineers, geographers, historians, sociologists, urban planners, and participants of other areas concerned with the built environment. No specific technical skills are required: curiosity, openness, and a willingness to engage in dialogue are key. We are looking for engaged, enthusiastic, entrepreneurial, open-minded, progressive participants who can help bring back ideas to their communities.Tematiche quali la sostenibilità urbana, la rigenerazione degli spazi, le scienze sociali, il design, l’architettura, l’urbanistica, le politiche pubbliche e le pratiche partecipative.
N° max studenti
10
Criteri di selezione
Portfolio for students enrolled at the School of Design
CV for students enrolled at the School of Engineering and Architecture
Parole chiave:
more-than-human, social innovation, transdisciplinarity
Tag
Environment and land planning, Interior design, Heritage and landscape, Natural resources, Environmental and social sustainability, Urban studies

Descrizione dell'iniziativa

Cities are under growing pressure from climate change, pollution, inequality and biodiversity loss, all of which affect health, living conditions and access to opportunities. Urban regeneration seeks to address these challenges by redesigning neighbourhoods to become healthier, fairer and more resilient, combining top-down strategies with bottom-up initiatives to improve overall urban liveability.

In this context, the first edition of the City Bootcamp in Milan is conceived as an intensive and transdisciplinary learning space dedicated to exploring practices of urban sustainability through a more-than-human perspective. The Summer School invites participants to rethink their role as drivers of change, observing the city as a complex and interdependent ecosystem in which not only cross-boundary collaborations across roles, disciplines, expertise, locations, human activities, worldviews, and generations are required. Humans, other species, infrastructures, and ecological processes are deeply entangled.

Through field-based activities, collaborative design, and direct engagement with local stakeholders, the 5-days programme challenges conventional models of urban regeneration and proposes alternative approaches grounded in multispecies coexistence, ecological care, and shared responsibility. The City Bootcamp thus positions itself as a critical laboratory for imagining and experimenting with more just, sensitive, and inclusive urban futures – not only for humans, but for the entire entanglement of urban life.

The City Bootcamp is part of “CAL:TS – The City as a Laboratory: Transdisciplinary Learning for a Transformative Society”, an Erasmus+ project co-funded by the European Union and coordinated by Politecnico di Milano, TU Berlin, and TU Delft.

Periodo di svolgimento

dal July 2026 a July 2026

Calendario

Day 0 – (TBD) - Online Kick-off meeting
Day 1 – 20 July - Getting into the context
Day 2 – 21 July - Grounding the brief
Day 3 – 22 July - Meeting the stakeholders
Day 4 – 23 July - Working on contents
Day 5 – 24 July - Refining and presenting