Off Campus, In Common: The City as a Laboratory

[CAL:TS] Opening Night

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:00.

The new EU funded programme The City as a Laboratory [CAL:TS] opens with a public sparring session: what can a university do once it steps off campus?

In this evening panel discussion, Francesco Vergani (Politecnico di Milano) presents Milan's Off Campus hubs, where teaching, research and co-design sit inside Milan’s neighbourhoods and work with local partners on real issues. Cléo Mieulet (RIFS Potsdam) shares field experience from re-figuring urban spaces such as neighbourhoods and shopping malls to strengthen urban resilience, civic agency and the transformative impetus of cities.

Our Opening Night shows how universities, residents and partners turn knowledge into shared capability by using the city itself as laboratory. With an inauguration address by Christian Schröder (TU Berlin).

Drinks follow for unhurried exchange.

Event location

Design & Computation Co-Lab [Alter Lesesaal]
TU Berlin
Main Building [Hauptgebäude], 3rd floor, H3502
Straße des 17. Juni 135
10623 Berlin

How to get there

[CAL:TS] merges city-embedded learning, re-figured spaces and practical routes to transdisciplinary education. A cooperation of TU Berlin, TU Delft and Politecnico di Milano.

Co-funded by the European Union (Erasmus+, KA220-HED 2025–2028). In cooperation with the Working Group Transdisciplinary Education (GTPF).