Workshop 7 September, 8:00 – 12. September 2026, 18:00 | Politecnico di Milano.
Applications open until 7 June 2026.
Focusing on the Adriatic region between Albania and Italy, the summer school “Disrupting the Corridor. New Scenarios for Water/Ground Mobilities” explores how mobility infrastructures, such as the Trans Adriatic Pipeline, thermoelectric power complexes such as such as Brindisi-Cerano, and the port cities of Brindisi, Bari, Durrës, mediate flows of water, energy, nature, capital, ideas, space, and politics.
Summer School coordinators Simonetta Armondi and Agim Kërçuku’s 2025 SOM European Research Prize provides the thematic foundation.
The programme seeks to challenge and redefine what “corridor mobility” means, as well as to develop the epistemic tools for envisioning a fair ecological future. More than mere physical routes, students will interrogate corridor mobility as a material, social, and ecological infrastructure that steers hydrosocial and energetic flows. While these infrastructures often create dependence, extraction, and conflict, they can also become spaces where pathways to sustainability, justice, and care are shaped and negotiated.
Through multidisciplinary theoretical analysis, use of archival tools, spatial ethnography, and a research-by-design approach, students will develop an “Atlas of Stories” composed of relational cartographies and speculative scenarios. The aim is to produce actionable policy and design strategies to mitigate and redefine infrastructural effects and to propose innovative, context-sensitive approaches that reframe these infrastructural impacts through ecological care, spatial justice, and territorial transformation.
Organisation
Chair Architecture and Territory, Prof. Milica Topalović