Activities

Successful cooperation between the URBAN FUTURES PROJECT and FINLAND FUTURES RESEARCH CENTRE

The project Urban Futures (UF) has continued forging relations with the Finland Futures Research Centre (FFRC) in Turku (with an office in Helsinki) (https://www.utu.fi/en/university/turku-school-of-economics/finland-futures-research-centre). One of FFRC members, Dr Katriina Siivonen is on the external advisory board...

Pasts and futures of public spaces (workshop)

Workshop on ethnographic methods and historic urban space From September 21 to 26, 2022, twelve students will join the workshop on the pasts and futures of public spaces, which is...

Urban Futures Talk SETHA LOW: Why public space matters

Please join us for the upcoming event organised by the research project Urban Futures: Imagining and Activating Possibilities in Unsettled Times.September 23, 2022, 10:00 AM Europe/Ljubljana (CEST) Zoom meeting: https://upr-si.zoom.us/j/6047675907?pwd=MUN1enNwaVpUQytqUUh6d0Z3QnZ0Zz09...

Lecture at the EASA conference

Nevena Škrbić Alempijević, PhD, participated as a presenter in the international conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), titled “Transformations, Hope and the Commons”, which took place in...

Lecture on imagining futures of post-industrial cities

The fourth Summer School of the SIEF (International Society for Ethnology and Folklore), intended for doctoral students in ethnology and cultural anthropology, as well as related disciplines, was organized at...

Lecture at the Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference

This year’s Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference, Reykjavik online conference 1 – 16 June 2022, was held in a hybrid form. Theme of the conference: re22 Within the Revisiting future...

Carfree city

In the course of preparation for the newspaper coverage on Ljubljanja as a carfree city, Saša Poljak Istenič was invited to comment on shaping of Ljubljana’s pedestrian zones. The Report...

LECTURE at the University of Zadar

Valentina Gulin Zrnić held an invited guest lecture (online, May 25, 2022) within the course Research Methodology: Experiment, Imagination, Writing, held by Prof. S. Božić Vrbančić at the Department of...

PUBLIC FORUM New, New Zagreb

Public forum, titled „New, New Zagreb – Concrete Actions for New Zagreb“, was held on the 14th of May 2022. Valentina Gulin Zrnić was one of the participants within the...

Urban Futures Talk FELIX RINGEL: How to do an Ethnography of the Future?: Shrinkage, Sustainability and Future-Tricking in Post-Industrial European Cities

Please join us for the upcoming event organised by the research project Urban Futures: Imagining and Activating Possibilities in Unsettled TimesMay 5, 2022 11:00 AM Europe/Zagreb (CEST) Zoom meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81756359783?pwd=MEJWMHFEN29ueGpiYVBwZU9TNTdvQT09...

Urban Futures Talk KATRIINA SIIVONEN: Anticipatory anthroposemiosis in urban areas – a suggestion for a cultural theory of futures

Please join us for the upcoming event organised by the research project Urban Futures: Imagining and Activating Possibilities in Unsettled Times May 10, 2022 11:00 AM (CEST) Europe/ZagrebVenue: Institute of...

Participation in the radio show ZNANSTVENI KONCENTRAT – urban futures

Valentina Gulin Zrnić participated in a radio show (HRT – HR3) hosted and edited by Rajka Rusan. The show was broadcasted on the April 4, 2022. https://radio.hrt.hr/treci-program/obrazovanje/urbane-buducnosti-6532537