PhD Workshop: Urban Futures

A full-day international doctoral workshop “Urban Futures” was held at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb on 29 January 2025, as part of the project What Kind of Cities Do We Want? Contemporary Transformations of Urban Visions, Practices, and Ethics (NextGenerationEU, 2024–2027).

The workshop was initiated, organized, and moderated by Valentina Gulin Zrnić, together with three postgraduate students whose research lies within the field of urban anthropology, with a particular focus on temporality, urban practices, participation, social innovation, and future planning. The discussion focused on conceptual, epistemological, and methodological questions.

Participants:

• Iva Grubiša (Postgraduate Program in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb), “Creating Home – Contemporary Refugee Experiences in the City of Zagreb”
• Marko Senčar Mrdaković (Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU, program in Human Geography), “Conflicts in Processes of Social Innovation in the Area of the Historic Urban Landscape of Koper”
• Mirna Tkalčić Simetić (Doctoral Program in Humanities, specialization in Ethnology and Anthropology, University of Zadar), “Cities After the Earthquake: Zagreb and Petrinja from the Perspective of the Anthropology of the Future”