From 18 to 20 June 2025, the XXVII Società Italiana degli Urbanisti (SIU) National Conference took place. It was organised by the SIU, the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU), the Department of Architecture, Built Environment, and Construction Engineering (ABC), with CRAFT, Politecnico di Milano.
Under the title Publicness: le sfide della dimensione pubblica nelle città e nei territori, the conference questioned the notion and the lens of the publicness, as the “condition of being public”. Centering the debate on publicness means critically examining who defines and maintains the public sphere, balancing it with private interests, and considering all beneficiaries (human and non-human) to promote long-term equity and sustainability in urban development. The conference programme featured a focus on Milan, 11 parallel sessions and the workshop YoungerSIU 2025.
Session 10: Publicness in urban regeneration strategies and projects
On Friday 20 June 2025, our research team participated in the sub-session 10.4, Publicness in urban regeneration strategies and projects, chaired by Enrico Formato (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) and Alessandro Coppola (Politecnico di Milano), with the discussants Gilda Berruti (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II), Alessandra Casu (Università degli Studi di Sassari), Laura Fregolent (Università Iuav di Venezia) and Marco Ranzato (Università degli Studi Roma Tre).
Alice Buoli, Valentina Rodani & Isabella Traeger presented Verso una publicness transfrontaliera? Le narrazioni “senza confini” della Capitale Europea della Cultura 2025 Nova Gorica–Gorizia / Towards a cross-border publicness? The “borderless” narratives of the European Capital of Culture 2025 Nova Gorica–Gorizia.
