Photo by Filippo Romano

The Space of Inequalities: Environment, Mobility, Citizenship

May 13 – November 9 2025

Free admission

At the introduction of the pavilions, the contribution of the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies at Politecnico di Milano structures three thematic insights to create a collective narrative and interpretation from a territorial perspective: the different impacts of extreme climatic events and prolonged exposure to harmful health conditions; the varying opportunities for access to resources and mobility restrictions; and the lack of full citizenship rights due to exclusion from housing and services. These themes are addressed at two different scales and through two different types of materials. The scales include, on the one hand, the global level, examining how different types of inequalities manifest on a planetary scale, and on the other, the city of Milan, where these issues are analyzed through the lens of georeferenced data. The materials consist, on one side, of short documentary videos that provide insights into environmental issues, mobility/migration, and access to housing and services on a global scale, creatively animating images, illustrations, drawings, and sounds alongside the words of international experts working in cities worldwide. On the other side, a physical model of the Milan metropolitan area serves as a projection surface for information on how these same issues unfold in our city.

Credits

The project is part of the 24th International Exhibition Inequalities.

By: DAStU e CRAFT, Politecnico di Milano
Work group DAStU, Politecnico di Milano: Alessandro Balducci (scientific coordination), Martina Bovo, Massimo Bricocoli, Nicola Colaninno (physical model design coordination), Grazia Concilio, Marta Cordini, Valeria Fedeli, Maryam Karimi, Giovanni Lanza, Farah Makki, Cristiana Mattioli, Eugenio Morello, Gloria Pessina (editorial coordination), Agostino Petrillo, Marco Peverini, Paola Piscitelli (audiovisual production coordination), Paola Pucci, Ilaria Tosoni, Doruntina Zendeli.
Corti: Paola Piscitelli (subject, direction, installation concept, archival research and editing), Paolo Turla (mounting), Saverio Damiani (sound and installation concept), Nora (animation).
Physical model with data projection - DAStU, Politecnico di Milano: Nicola Colaninno (design, data and maps), Gabriele Stancato and Doruntina Zendeli (data, maps and projection processing), Nilva K. Aramburu Guevara, Martina Bovo, Massimo Bricocoli, Lorenzo Caresana, Grazia Concilio, Alessandro Coppola, Marta Cordini, Mohamed Elgohary, Maryam Karimi, Giovanni Lanza, Cristiana Mattioli, Andrea Parma, Marco Peverini, Paola Pucci, Daniele Viarengo (data and maps), Eugenio Morello and Barbara E. A. Piga (supervision) with the support of Viviana Giavarini and Fabio Manfredini (MAUD - Mapping & Urban Data Lab).
Politecnico di Milano: Renato Aiminio and Barbara Sironi - LaborA (3D model printing).
Exhibition design: (AB)NORMAL
Exhibition set-up: Produzioni Milano