The EduSpaces are a network of educational laboratories located at the Free University of Bozen‑Bolzano (Italy), characterized by plural disciplinary perspectives and multilingual orientations. Their activities integrate research, teaching, and third‑mission initiatives, with the shared objective of fostering a continuous exchange between theoretical reflection and educational practice. The network originated within a collaborative project involving four partner institutions (2016–2019) and has expanded since 2022, currently comprising nine laboratories operating across pedagogical, disciplinary, historical‑documentary, cognitive, psychological, artistic, environmental, linguistic, digital‑media, and children’s literature fields.

The EduSpaces are conceived as both physical and conceptual learning environments. Their design is informed by educational research that emphasizes the role of the lived body in learning processes and critically addresses mind–body dualisms. On this theoretical basis, the present contribution investigates the educational and formative potential of the EduSpaces through the framework of Embodied Education.

Within the contemporary educational landscape—marked by global challenges that call into question the purposes of education and by the fragmentation of knowledge into separate disciplinary domains—the EduSpaces initiative proposes an alternative understanding of education as a multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary process. At the same time, it foregrounds the situated nature of learning, emphasizing the socio‑territorial contexts in which educational practices take place. From this perspective, embodied learning processes are understood as emerging through interactions with place, community, and context‑dependent meaning‑making within higher education settings.