URBAN CULTURE

From July to December, Fondazione FS reopens the historic rooms of Italian railway stations, where railway architecture becomes art, political narrative and a manifesto of style Summer is, by definition, the season of movement. It is the time of year when railway stations fill with the murmur of travellers, the…

From Ostia to Caracalla, the World Cup becomes a concrete test of urban “publicness” Some spaces are public only on paper. Others truly become public when people cross them, use them, inhabit them and turn them into opportunities for encounter. The Skateboarding World Cup taking place in Rome in recent…

From 24 to 28 June, three municipalities will host the eighth edition of Agorà’s festival, spanning architecture, infrastructure and new urban economies The festival that turns youth participation into an active space for debate returns, with civic engagement and participation becoming concrete tools for cultural and territorial regeneration. From 24…

The figures contained in Confindustria’s Manifesto reveal the scale of the phenomenon: 117,793 companies, 309,613 people employed and turnover close to €60 billion Bringing culture firmly into the country’s economic agenda, treating it as a driver of growth, innovation and competitiveness, with a national strategy. Italian culture is claiming its…

Celebrations begin for the 100th anniversary of the death of the architect behind the Sagrada Família. In July, the global festival returns with exclusive tours and special openings in more than 230 cities Italy is preparing to celebrate Antoni Gaudí — and much more besides — in grand style. One…

From Lingotto to OGR, and on to international stops in New York and at London’s Barbican Nearly twenty-five years have passed since C2C Festival was founded in Turin in 2002. At the time, it was still called Club to Club, and it stood out for an innovative formula: a single…

From World Capital of Architecture to the Uia Congress, the Catalan city is turning 2026 into a city-wide platform spanning public space, reuse, culture and new urban challenges. Barcelona is a benchmark for world architecture, but not only that. In 2026, the Catalan capital will use its title as World…

In May, events and debates shine a spotlight on areas still too often seen as “non-places”, yet increasingly emerging as spaces of regeneration and new urban centrality In Rome, May is dedicated to the peripheries, understood not as marginal areas but as active spaces of transformation and urban identity-building. From…

Between migration, gender and social commitment, the stories of six professionals open up a debate on the dominant model of the discipline Transnational Narratives: A Documentary Celebrating South Asian Women in Architecture. This is the title of the documentary that traces the journeys of six women architects of South Asian…

From the Paesi Edizioni series, which reads today’s crises through the urban trajectories that reveal global tensions, come two other titles too: “Damascus” and “Kharkiv” Greenland as a place of encounter and nature, a territory now at the centre of geopolitical debate because of Donald Trump — who first announced…