Urban Futures researchers participated at the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences congress, held from the 8th to the 14th March 2021 online. The congress focused on the Coming of Age on Earth: Legacies and Next Generation Anthropology.
Saša Poljak Istenič co-organized the panel Whose Future Is It? Temporality and Asymmetric Politics in Times of Uncertainty. Within the panel, Valentina Gulin Zrnić and Saša Poljak Istenič presented the preliminary project research on The Youth Momentum: Actions for the Futures. Nina Vodopivec participated with the presentation The Future Is Now: Towards Social Responsibility and Care.
Tihana Rubić deliviered a presentation titled The Future of Aging: Practices, Narrations, and Envisioning of Aging in Zagreb’s Urban Space at the panel Coming of (Old) Age on Earth: Imagining Our Aging Future.
Miha Kozorog and Tihana Rubić organized the panel Coming of Age as Entrepreneurs: Biopolitics and Ethics of Youth in Modern-Day Economies. It hosted Miha Kozorog’s presentation on Coworking in Slovenia Between Ideals and the Condition of Smallness, while Saša Poljak Istenič discussed How to raise an entrepreneur? Contradicting Educational Experiments in Slovenia.