Urbinary
by POLI.RADIO
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The Right to the Future — Four Futures for Gaza. Part two
The Right to the Future — Four Futures for Gaza. Part two
About this podcast
Urbinary is a podcast by PhD students and research fellows from the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies at Politecnico di Milano. Born in 2022 as a student project, it was rebranded in 2024 with a renewed mission: to make urban studies accessible to a broader audience by exploring innovative research topics and fostering inclusive dialogue. Through fresh perspectives and experimental approaches, Urbinary bridges academia and the public, amplifying young voices and uncovering new paths in urban research.
Episodes
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- The Right to the Future — Four Futures for Gaza. Part two · 41 minA Palestinian astronaut steps onto the moon and plants a flag. The image opens Part 2 of The Right to the Future — Four Futures for Gaza, which follows the remaining three…
- The right to the future. Four futures for Gaza. Part one · 43 minImagine Gaza in 2040. Two bored employees in the municipal IT department copy France’s application for the 2048 Summer Olympics, replace the country name and submit it as a joke…
- Oltre lo stadio. San Siro, l'operazione finanziaria, la battaglia · 23 minSinossi episodio Oltre lo stadio racconta come la costruzione di nuovi stadi di calcio, o la ristrutturazione di quelli già esistenti, sia diventata in Europa volano di…
- Oltre lo stadio. L’Italia, le città, i comitati · 25 minSinossi Oltre lo stadio racconta come la costruzione di nuovi stadi di calcio, o la ristrutturazione di quelli già esistenti, sia diventata in Europa volano di trasformazioni…
- Oltre lo stadio. La storia, l’Europa, la modernizzazione · 24 minSinossi Oltre lo stadio racconta come la costruzione di nuovi stadi di calcio, o la ristrutturazione di quelli già esistenti, sia diventata in Europa volano di trasformazioni…
- S2526 / Ri-affermare la dimensione pubblica nei territori della logistica · 45 minIl Workshop Younger SIU 2025 ha lavorato ad un’analisi analitico-progettuale del concetto di ‘publicness’ a partire dal caso emblematico del nodo logistico di Piacenza. Per…
- S2526 / Below the Surface. Power, Groundwater, and BNBOs in Denmark · 29 minGroundwater protection in Denmark has become a growing source of conflict. Through the case of BNBOs - protection zones around drinking water wells - the episode explores how…
- S2526 / Gating the Lagoon. The conflictual decision-making process of MoSe · 33 minVenice has always lived with water. But after the catastrophic flood of 1966, that uneasy coexistence increasingly came to be governed through large-scale technological control…
- S2526 / Flows of Power. How water treaties produce water scarcity · 38 minStarting from the 2020 conflict surrounding La Boquilla Dam, this episode traces the hidden workings of the 1944 water treaty between the United States and Mexico. In the Río…
- S2526 / Public space, public power / Part B - How protest reshapes a city · 22 minPublic space and protest power explores how protest movements do more than express political demands; they actively reshape the city itself. Through the ongoing student protests…
- S2526 / Public space and protest power / Part A - From Collapse to Collective: Student Protest in Serbia · 28 min · Season 2526 Episode 1Public space and protest power explores how protest movements do more than express political demands; they actively reshape the city itself. Through the ongoing student protests…
- S2526 / Manuale minimo di urbanistica coloniale (come si pianifica un’occupazione) / Parte B - Cisgiordania · 38 min · Season 2526 Episode 2La seconda parte approfondisce la dimensione territoriale del colonialismo d’insediamento in Cisgiordania, dove il controllo lascia la scala urbana per trasformarsi in un…
- S2526 / Manuale minimo di urbanistica coloniale (come si pianifica un’occupazione) / Parte A - Gerusalemme · 30 min · Season 2526 Episode 2La prima parte di “Manuale minimo di urbanistica coloniale (come si pianifica un’occupazione)” esplora come la pianificazione urbana diventi un potente strumento di dominio nei…
- S2526 / Urban studies and political economy in the digital era · 33 min · Season 2526 Episode 1This episode brings together Jeremy Gilbert and Christian Schmid to explore how digital capitalism and Lefebvrian theory can shed light on the changing nature of urban space…
- S242508C / Living the Divide: Save the City or Sell It Off - U10 · 14 minCan a law reshape a city? Salva Milano was introduced to unlock construction across Milan, but quickly became a symbol of something deeper: how urban planning isbeing redefined…
- S242508B / Living the Divide: More Than a Roof - U10 · 14 minWhat happens when housing stops being treated as a right and becomes a residual category—something to manage, not invest in? In this episode, we return to one of Milan’s largest…
- S242508A / Living the Divide: Drawing the Line - U10 · 15 minGated condos next to crumbling apartments. Luxury towers rising beside public neglect. In this first episode, we explore how Milan’s urban space has become a landscape of stark…
- S242507 / Chipping away at the monolith: reframing the Valle di Lei cross-border dam · 51 min · Season 4 Episode 3In this final episode of the Territorial Elsewheres series, we travel to the Valle di Lei, a borderland between Italy and Switzerland where a monumental dam reveals the tensions…
- S242506 / Mountains of Spectacle: questioning the sustainability of tourism and mega events · 52 min · Season 4 Episode 2.This episode explores mountain territories as places of production, leisure, and spectacle. Considering practices of mass tourism and mega events as major drivers of spatial…
- S242505 / Agrarian centralities of urbanization: Informality, Infrastructure, and Exploitation · 44 min · Season 4 Episode 1The first episode of this new Urbinary cycle investigates how systems of labour exploitation shape space, focusing on rural southern Italy. It explores the phenomenon of…
