Laura Šakaja discusses the actual changing of the name of the Marshal Tito Square in Zagreb which has become one of the central topics of political debates in Zagreb City Assembly. “ Street and square …

Laura Šakaja realized a study visit at the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences in June 2017. She presented a lecture on Croatian geography as well as current research of the City-making …

Petra Kelemen collaborated with the artist Tonka Maleković in her project „Spaces Between (Living) Places“ as  part of Actopolis project. ACTOPOLIS is a call to action and to co-author the city – across disciplines, national …

Nevena Škrbić Alempijević participated in a radio interview “Cosmos and ethos” broadcasted at the Third Programme of Croatian Radio. The themes of conversation were anthropology of place and space, social memory, festivals and other urban …

Professor Johannesa Mosera (Institut für Volkskunde/Europäische Ethnologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) delivered a public lecture “How should one live in the city? Urban Ethics – a research agenda” on 26 May 2017 at the Faculty of Humanities …

Valentina Gulin Zrnić and Tihana Rubić participated on a one-day conference “Gardens and Architecture” at the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb, 26 May 2017. The event gathered architects, agronomists, officials from city administration, construction ingineres …

Laura Šakaja delivered a keynote at the XII Jornadas Internacionais sobre Grandes Problemáticas do Espaço Europeu (XII International Seminars: Overarching Issues of the European Area) (Porto, 26-28 May 2017). The title of the lecture: “Sense …

Tihana Rubić and Valentina Gulin Zrnić presented the volume “Gardens of our City” in a distric library  of Novi Zagreb on 25 May 2017. The editors and authors of the book discussed the topics on …

Valentina Gulin Zrnić and Tihana Rubić as editors of the book “Gardens of Our City” presented the book in primary school Davorin Trstenjak in Zagreb. The school nourishes a school garden, established by several enthusiastic …

In the frame of SEF festival, the international student ethnographic film festival in Zadar, Nevena Škrbić Alempijević delivered an invited lecture entitled “Politics and cultures of space: case study of the European Square in Zagreb“. …

Tihana Rubić presented a book Vrtovi našega grada: Studije i zapisi o praksama urbanog vrtlarenja (The Gardens of Our City: Studies and Essays on Urban Gardening Practices) (Zagreb, 2016) The Croatian national television (HRT) broadcast’s …

Laura Šakaja and Lana Slavuj published an article on “Quality of life as a topic of geographic research: An overview of the development of interest and theoretical models of research” in journal “Hrvatski geografski glasnik”, …

Members of the project, Valentina Gulin Zrnić and Nevena Škrbić Alempijević, along with Melinda Šefčić, participated in the radio show The Roundtable on Mondays, Third Programme of the Croatian Radio. The show broadcast on April …

Member of the project, dr Nevena Škrbić Alempijević, is newly elected president of SIEF – Société Internationale d’ Ethnologie et de Folklore. The 13thSIEF  congress took place in Göttingen focusing on the topic “Ways of …

In the frame of the 13th congress of International Society of Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF), Nevena Škrbić Alempijević delivered a paper “Locating Europe in the Festive City: creativity and crisis in the Square of Europe …