Policy and tools

“Re-Mapping Borderlands”: a seminar highlights the role of cartography in understanding borderlands

March 2025

On March 26th, 2025, the Politecnico di Milano and its partners* organised a research seminar entitled ‘Re-Mapping Borderlands Between Critical & Operative Approaches’, bringing together international experts to discuss the role of maps in understanding and transforming borderlands.

Jean Peyrony, Director General of the MOT, shared the MOT’s expertise in mapping multi-level cross-border cooperation to strengthen territorial cohesion.
https://www.italianborderscapes.polimi.it/research-seminar-mapping-borderlands-between-critical-operative-approaches/

This event was organised as part of a European research project on Italian borders, ‘Italian Borderscapes after 2020’, funded by the Next Generation EU programme, which has just published its first report, specifically devoted to the French-Italian border:
‘Italian Borderscapes After 2020: Mapping, Unfolding, Re-Framing Border Territories in Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: 01.c Fieldwork Report: Italo-French Border’.
https://www.italianborderscapes.polimi.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Report-01.c-Fieldwork-Italo-French-Border.pdf

The project partners:
Politecnico di Milano – Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU)
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (unibz) – Faculty of Design and Arts
National Research Council – Institute for Studies on Regional, Federal and Autonomous Systems (CNR – ISSIRFA)