An interdisciplinary round-table discussion to address a highly topical issue at the intersection of biology, health and social choices: the tiger mosquito. This has long been a significant issue in Ticino and is now increasingly affecting other Swiss cantons as well.
Third-year students of the Bachelor of Arts SUPSI in Visual Communication present 10 audiovisual works that give form and movement to 10 musical pieces. A truly evocative visual concert experience to be enjoyed in the cinema.
What is the value of remembering, especially when it concerns trauma, injustice, and war? How can we give voice to the victims of migration? The Centre for Development and Cooperation SUPSI reflects on the theme of memory in an evening event promoted together with Mendrisiotto Regione Aperta and Club 74.
Drinking water is not just a question of quality. It is also a question of territorial control.
From artificial intelligence to electric cars, we live with the sense of constant change, yet we often remain trapped in a “mythology of innovation” that oversimplifies its complexity. This event marks the first presentation of the book in Switzerland.
At the Centro Elisarion in Minusio, on Sunday 22 March at 17:00, an exhibition curated by Reza Khatir will open, dedicated to the perspectives of four photographers – Ylenia Bruzzese, Marica Barabino, Vittoria Fragapane and Elena Pavan – who graduated in Visual Communication from SUPSI in recent years.
A conference that becomes an opportunity, thanks to four speakers, to take a closer look at a restoration project based on the integration of historical analysis, direct observation, and scientific investigation of one of the most complex decorative ensembles in the Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican.
SUPSI is at home in Ethiopia: since 2014, students have been building a small structure every year with their peers from the University of Hawassa. Until 15 April, visitors can view the photographic exhibition documenting this collaboration at the SUPSI Mendrisio Campus, whilst a presentation of this international experience is scheduled for Thursday 2 April at 12.30.
On Monday, 2 March at 17:00, an exhibition featuring works by students from the EPFL Lausanne and ETH Zurich will open, focusing on places that preserve the memory of minority communities: an alternative mapping of Swiss heritage and the diversity of our society. A guided tour will take place on 10 March.
Discover your future at SUPSI in Mendrisio! We look forward to meeting you on Friday, 27 February 2026. You will be able to dive into the heart of our study offer, meet and talk with lecturers, students and alumni, and discover the career opportunities that await you. A unique chance to experience the atmosphere of our Campus.
Raven Kwok, a visual artist and creative technologist awarded an Emmy Award in 2023, is the featured guest of the upcoming MAInD Expanded Talks event. In his talk Algorithmic Alchemy, he will present creative coding projects and live prototypes, demonstrating how algorithms and generative software can transform logic into experimental visual forms.
Promoted in collaboration with the City of Lugano’s Department of Culture, the workshop opens up dialogue and discussion on the maintenance of public art across different Swiss contexts, bringing together public administrations responsible for managing interventions and conservator-restorers who carry them out.
An expert naturalist in biodiversity conservation, political scientist, environmental journalist and writer, Valeria Barbi, co-author of the reportage WANE-We Are Nature Expedition, draws attention to the biodiversity crisis, threatened by widespread unawareness of its importance.
The comparison between photographers Paolo Abate, Fabiana Bassetti, and Roberto Pellegrini and their works forms the basis of a discussion between Elio Franzini, professor of Aesthetics and former rector of the University of Milan, and Matteo Vegetti, professor SUPSI of Theories of space and living.
An opportunity to reflect on what it means to envision and design cities capable of offering more flexible, fair, and accessible urban spaces, through a conference promoted by the Institute of Earth Sciences SUPSI with the support of Generando and the participation of a number of guest speakers.
In the lecture that concludes his long career at SUPSI, which began in 1997 - the year SUPSI was founded - Michele Amadò offers an insight into the essential role of philosophy, myth and poetry in teaching. An opportunity to reflect together and to thank him.
