“ROUNDTABLE: Post-earhquake cities governance policies and civic participation”

As part of the project Urban Futures: imagining and activating possibilities in unsettled times (HRZZ-ARRS) and organized by the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, we invite you to a roundtable.

POST-EARTHQUAKE CITIES GOVERNANCE POLICIES AND CIVIC PARTICIPATION

Date: Thursday, March 9, 2023, 12-3 PM

Location: Društvo hrvatskih književnika, Trg bana Josipa Jelačića 7/1, Zagreb

The course of the reconstruction process of cities affected by the Zagreb and Petrinja earthquakes in 2020 reflects a series of factors, primarily the complex interplay of local, regional, national, and supranational levels of post-earthquake management. The legal framework established by the Law on Reconstruction and various sources of funding has resulted in administrative congestion, negatively affecting the quality of daily life and the speed and efficiency of building reconstruction process. The aim of this roundtable is to bring together political, civil, and expert actors from the cities of Zagreb and Petrinja to present the challenges they face within this process and to attempt to find modalities for more successful forms of mutual cooperation and communication in current and future disasters and crises of various kinds.

PARTICIPANTS:

Ana Aleksić Pezelj, Head of the Administrative Department for Social Activities and Property of the City of Petrinja

Sanja Bachrach Krištofić, Representative of the civil initiative “Obnovimo Zagreb”

Igor Kordić, Representative of the civil initiative “Udruga SOS Zagreb”

Luka Korlaet, Deputy Mayor of the City of Zagreb

Marija Mažić, Representative of the civil initiative “Petrinjsko proljeće”

Milan Orlić, Principal of Srednja škola Petrinja

Robert Pašičko, Expert in green energy and sustainable development at UNDP, co-founder of the Green Energy Cooperative

Davor Trupković, Conservator, Directorate for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia

MODERATORS:

Valentina Gulin Zrnić and Mirna Tkalčić Simetić, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research