The International Symposium "Upcycling and Architecture in Europe. Towards a New Building Culture" will be held on September 20-21, 2024, at Politecnico di Milano. 

The list of invited speakers include Paola Altamura (Sapienza Università di Roma), Alessio Battistella (Politecnico di Milano), Giacomo Borella (Studio Albori/Accademia di Mendrisio), Corentin Fivet (EPFL), Pablo Garrido Arnaiz and Carla Ferrando (Parabase), Victor Meesters (Rotor), Christoph Müller (Zirkular), Niklas Nolsøe (Lendager Group), Mario Rinke (University of Antwerp) and Daniel Stockhammer (University of Liechtenstein).

The event is organised in the frame of the Research Project of National Relevance (PRIN) "Upcycling Architecture in Italy. Forging and Promoting a Renewed Building Culture", funded by European Union – Next Generation EU and involving four universities: Politecnico di Torino, Sapienza Università di Roma, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata and Politecnico di Milano.

The symposium is a first-time Italian gathering of a significant selection of leading European experts in upcycling, reuse and circularity in the field of architecture. The event’s main goal is to map the state-of-the-art of ongoing practice and research continent-wide, focusing on a few particularly relevant construction sites and scientific advancements. Practitioners and researchers based in six countries – Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands and Switzerland – are invited to present their experience and share their knowledge and critical perspective on the topic. In keeping with the objectives of the Research Project of National Relevance (PRIN) "Upcycling Architecture in Italy. Forging and Promoting a Renewed Building Culture", the symposium is understood as a key occasion to give full publicity in Italy to the most advanced European contexts and cases, and to put them in dialogue with the best national experimentations. Furthermore, it aims at strengthening and extending a strategic network of experts, as the first step towards potential long-term collaborations within international research projects or other programs.

At the following link, you can download the full event program.

For more information, please write to:
alessandro.benetti@polito.it