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LABORATORI POLITECNICI departments | territory | teaching | technology

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Photograph ©hanninen

Dates and places

From October 20 to October 30 – Mantova Campus Library

From November 03 to November 13 – Cremona Campus Library

From November 17 to November 27 – Piacenza Campus Library

From December 01 to December 11 – Lecco Campus Library

There is an invisible world that pulses every day within the laboratories of the Politecnico di Milano. Spaces of ingenuity, experimentation, and meticulous gestures, where students, researchers, technicians, and professors transform ideas into action, form, and solutions.

The exhibition LABORATORI POLITECNICI – departments | territory | teaching | technology, curated by Roberto Dulio with photographs by Giovanni Hänninen, was created to tell the story of this living, technical universe through the evocative power of the gaze. The photographs do not merely capture instruments and technologies, but also what usually escapes notice: the details, the spaces built for thinking, experimenting, and testing.

Spaces dense with life, experience, and knowledge, where science engages with the challenges of the present and opens up to infinite worlds and possibilities. Because a laboratory is not just a physical place—it goes beyond any intellectual boundary, forming an ecosystem where research intertwines with education, innovation with society, thought with technique.

Laboratories are not only containers of education and research: they preserve the memory of over 160 years of innovation. They have been crossed by historical figures such as Giulio Natta and Gio Ponti, and at the same time they are projected into the future. They are places that testify to daily work, the construction of knowledge, and the constant drive toward the new.

The diversity of disciplines corresponds to a variety of spaces—each one an expression of the specific identities of the Departments and Territorial Campuses, and of the deep connection between the Politecnico di Milano and its urban, national, and international context. In these environments, time itself can be read: from traditional Milanese cement tiles to modern resin floors, to the vaulted ceilings of underground rooms, where the stability of the ground supports complex experiments.

This exhibition is an invitation to discover what happens behind the scenes of innovation. To be surprised by the beauty and details of research. To perceive, in each image, the collective passion that shapes the knowledge that grows, is passed on, and constantly transforms.

 

Photographs by Giovanni Hänninen

Project: Area Campus Life, Politecnico di Milano

Curated by Roberto Dulio

 

 

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Location

Biblioteca Storica, Campus Leonardo

Events

09 →

October 2025

13

March 2026

Exhibitions
Life on Campus | People and places

20 →

October

12

December 2025

Exhibitions
LABORATORI POLITECNICI departments | territory | teaching | technology

20 →

October

23

December 2025

Exhibitions
Food&City

23

October 2025

Conventions
Renovate | Battery Recycling in Lombardy: It Matters More Than You Think

27

October 2025

Conventions
Osservatorio Cybersecurity & Data Protection: Case Study Session

28

October 2025

Conventions
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29 →

October

16

November 2025

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Dedicato a Federico Bucci

29

October 2025

Conferences
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29

October 2025

Experience 5G-CRESCA

30

October 2025

Meeting
Career Day Startup

30

October 2025

HumanTech | Unfolding Pathways for the More-than-Human Society

30

October 2025

Conventions
Biodiversità che cura: innovazione tra Natura, Wellness e Farma

30

October 2025

Conventions
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31

October 2025

Conventions
The Space of Inequality. Environment, Mobility, Citizenship

31

October 2025

Conventions
I pagamenti digitali in Italia nel 2025

03 →

November

09

November 2025

Exhibitions
INEQUALITIES | Lo spazio delle disuguaglianze

03 →

November

09

November 2025

Exhibitions
INEQUALITIES | Not for her. AI Revealing the Unseen

04

November 2025

Conventions
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06

November 2025

Conventions
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07

November 2025

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09

November 2025

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10 →

November

21

November 2025

Meeting
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10

November 2025

Films
Pericolosamente Vicini - Docufilm

11

November 2025

Conventions
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12

November 2025

Meeting
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13

November 2025

Conventions
Intelligenza (artificiale e umana) per il futuro della Logistica

18

November 2025

Conventions
Convegno dei risultati di Ricerca dell’Osservatorio Software & Digital Native Innovation

25

November 2025

Conventions
Convegno dei risultati di Ricerca dell’Osservatorio Quantum Computing & Communication

01

December 2025

Meeting
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02

December 2025

Conventions
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02 →

December

03

December 2025

For the General Public. Architecture Between Debate, Dissemination, and Narrative Strategies

04

December 2025

Conventions
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10

December 2025

Conventions
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11

December 2025

Conventions
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11

December 2025

Films
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15

January 2026

Convegno dei risultati di Ricerca dell’Osservatorio Data Center