New project: CITIES AND FUTURES

In connection with the main project What Kind of Cities Do We Want? Contemporary Transformations of Urban Visions, Practices, and Ethics (NextGenerationEU, 2024–2027), and in collaboration with colleagues from ZRC SAZU, a new bilateral research project has been approved: Cities and Futures: Ethnological and Cultural Anthropological Research / Mesta in prihodnosti: etnološke in kulturnoantropološke raziskave (FUTURB).

The project will take place in 2025 and 2026 through a series of working meetings, public discussions, and workshops held in Zagreb and Ljubljana, focusing on three main themes:

1. Youth and Climate Neutrality Policies
2. Energy Transition and Cities of the Future
3. Post-Industrial and Post-Earthquake Cities and the Possibilities of Their Revitalization

The Croatian team is led by Dr. Tihana Rubić, and the Slovenian team by Dr. Saša Poljak Istenič.

Project collaborators include Tatiana Bajuk Senčar, Sanja Đurin, Valentina Gulin Zrnić, Miha Kozorog, Mirna Tkalčić Simetić, and Jaro Veselinovič.

The FUTURB project is conducted as part of the bilateral scientific research cooperation between Croatia and Slovenia, supported by MZOM and ARRS.