La SUPSI at the Festival della natura 2026

• May 20th, 2026

• Hours:  14:00  - 17:00

Parcheggio Fondazione Bolle di Magadino, Vicolo Forte Olimpo 3, 6573 Gambarogno

The Festival is a national platform that brings together organisations working in the fields of nature conservation, sustainable tourism and public administration across the country’s three linguistic regions. Its aim is to raise public awareness of issues relating to nature and the protection of biodiversity. SUPSI will be taking part with a walk exploring the biodiversity of fungi and by curating an exhibition on the alpine environment of the Val Piora.

The tiger mosquito is on the move. Working together with schools and local communities to prevent it

• April 29th, 2026

• Hours:  16:00  - 17:00

Mendrisio, SUPSI-DACD, via Flora Ruchat-Roncati 15, aula A2.14

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.

“Music in Image” at LUX art house Cinema in Massagno

• April 28th, 2026

• Hours:  18:00

LUX art house, Massagno, via Giuseppe Motta 67

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.

Individual and collective memory

• April 17th, 2026

• Hours:  18:00

Campus SUPSI Mendrisio, via Flora Ruchat-Roncati 15, Mendrisio, Materioteca

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 and water abstraction: emerging chemical risks and protection strategies

• April 16th, 2026

• Hours:  09:00  - 16:40

Mendrisio, SUPSI Dipartimento ambiente costruzioni e design, via Flora Ruchat-Roncati 15, sala polivalente

Drinking water is not just a question of quality. It is also a question of territorial control.

Massimiano Bucchi presents his book “Ideas that change the world”

• March 23rd, 2026

• Hours:  17:00

Campus SUPSI Mendrisio, via Flora Ruchat-Roncati 15, Mendrisio, Materioteca

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.

“Sulla Terra”: group exhibition by four young photographers

• From March 22nd to May 10th, 2026

Centro Elisarion, Minusio (via Rinaldo Simen 3)

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.

Discovering the gilded stucco work of the Papal Basilica’s vault

• March 16th, 2026

• Hours:  16:00

Campus SUPSI Mendrisio, via Flora Ruchat-Roncati 15, Mendrisio, A2.14

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.

Mendrisio-Hawassa: photography exhibition and presentation of Wo-Co 2026

• From March 16th to April 15th, 2026

Campus SUPSI Mendrisio, via Flora Ruchat-Roncati 15, Mendrisio

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.

Exhibition “Inclusive heritage: invisibilized voices and places”

• From March 2nd to 27th, 2026

Campus SUPSI Mendrisio, via Flora Ruchat-Roncati 15, Mendrisio

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.

Open Day 2026 SUPSI Mendrisio

• February 27th, 2026

• Hours:  08:15  - 14:30

Campus SUPSI Mendrisio, Via Flora Ruchat-Roncati 15, Mendrisio

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.

MAInD Expanded Talks: lecture by Raven Kwok

• February 11th, 2026

• Hours:  16:00

Online

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.

Workshop “Public Art needs Continuous Care” (Living Lab)

• February 6th, 2026

• Hours:  09:00  - 18:00

Mendrisio, Campus SUPSI, via Flora Ruchat-Roncati 15, Sala polivalente

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.

Earth Emergency. Valeria Barbi conference: Adaptations. Struggle for survival

• December 10th, 2025

• Hours:  18:30

Sala polivalente (ground floor), Campus SUPSI Mendrisio, via Flora Ruchat-Roncati 15

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.

Photography as an art for the representation of space

• December 3rd, 2025

• Hours:  17:00

Mendrisio, Campus SUPSI, via Flora Ruchat-Roncati 15, Library (1st floor)

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.

Inclusive Cities: the evolution of adaptive spaces

• November 26th, 2025

• Hours:  17:30  - 19:15

Mendrisio, Campus SUPSI, via Flora Ruchat-Roncati 15, Materioteca

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.