Conference

Together in Ljubljana, in early September 2025, our EU-URGE team turned streets, offices, markets, gardens, and riverbanks into sites of research. We met with local organizations and stakeholders, visited city offices, and explored everyday life in between. A city that proved to be more than Slovenia’s green capital; a living laboratory of climate neutrality in …

Klagenfurt has a water problem, or rather, it has many, or none at all, depending on who, or what, you ask. Nestled between the Alps and the Adriatic, the city sits beside one of Austria’s most beloved lakes, fed by rivers and an Alpine aquifer that would be the envy of drier regions. And yet …

Warsaw makes a selected district the model for energy transformations as part of their efforts for climate neutrality (EU-Mission100). In their presentation at SIEF2025 Anna Ptak, Anna Horolets and Maria Małanicz-Przybylska of the University of Warsaw look at the district ethnographically, treating it as material, socio-cultural and institutional reality. Does the project overwrite or erase …