Due to overpopulation, pollution, noise, and other ecological and social problems, cities face a worsening quality of urban life, which requires effective planning of their futures. Urban visions as ...an aspect of strategic planning can be a starting point for a radical transformation of how towns develop into cities of the future that successfully address current challenges. This article, deriving from the anthropology of the future and planning, analyses how cities imagine their futures and how they narrate it. It compares the visions of eight Slovenian and Croatian cities – Ljubljana, Zagreb, Koper, Rijeka, Maribor, Kutina, Nova Gorica, and Hvar – and assesses how they understand the concept of sustainable development and take into account its principles (economic, environmental, social, and cultural sustainability). Discourse analysis reveals that visions often remain on paper only, with undefined elements of sustainability and values. They repeatedly instrumentalize urban realities – that is, natural and cultural resources – for their goals. To achieve better cooperation of residents in helping create cities of the future, visions should be more long-term and imaginative.
In this article we focus on futures as a cultural anthropological subject of research and an analytical concept, reviewing studies from “cultural futurism” of the 1970s and anticipatory anthropology ...of the 1980s to the “anthropology of futures” burgeoning in the last decade. We discuss different approaches to the central issue of how anthropology deals with futures (future as a cultural fact, multitemporality, temporal agency, presentism, multiple futures, etc.) and illustrate the research framework being developed within an ongoing research project “Urban futures: imagining and activating possibilities in unsettled times” (www.citymaking.eu). In this project, future-making refers to a comprehensive understanding of the factors and processes involved in imagining, anticipating and perceiving collective futures as well as in the modalities of engagement, values, habits, practices, and affects, that construct specific attitudes towards futures in everyday life.
U ovome se članku bavimo budućnostima kao kulturnoantropološkim predmetom istraživanja i analitičkim pojmom predstavljajući studije objavljene u posljednjih pedesetak godina od onih koje se smještaju ...u domenu “kulturne futuristike” i anticipatorne antropologije do onih u kojima se istaknutije profilira antropologija budućnosti. Različite pristupe zahvaćamo komparativno i problemski (budućnost kao kulturna činjenica, multitemporalnost, temporalno djelovanje, metafizički prezentizam, mnogobrojne budućnosti i dr.) te obrazlažemo okvire istraživanja koje razvijamo unutar aktualnog istraživačkog projekta o urbanim budućnostima. Stvaranje budućnosti se u ovome projektu odnosi na sveobuhvatno razumijevanje čimbenika i procesa koji se povezuju u zamišljanju, anticipaciji i percepciji kolektivnih budućnosti kao i u modalitetima angažmana, vrijednosti, navika praksi i afekata, koji konstruiraju specifične odnose prema budućnostima u svakodnevnom životu.
In this article we focus on futures as a cultural anthropological subject of research and an analytical concept, reviewing studies from “cultural futurism” of the 1970s and anticipatory anthropology of the 1980s to the “anthropology of futures” burgeoning in the last decade. We discuss different approaches to the central issue of how anthropology deals with futures (future as a cultural fact, multitemporality, temporal agency, presentism, multiple futures, etc.) and illustrate the research framework being developed within an ongoing research project “Urban futures: imagining and activating possibilities in unsettled times” (www.citymaking.eu). In this project, future-making refers to a comprehensive understanding of the factors and processes involved in imagining, anticipating and perceiving collective futures as well as in the modalities of engagement, values, habits, practices, and affects, that construct specific attitudes towards futures in everyday life.
Mesta se zaradi prenaseljenosti, onesnaževanja, hrupa ter drugih ekoloških in družbenih problemov spoprijemajo s čedalje slabšo kakovostjo urbanega življenja, kar zahteva učinkovito načrtovanje ...njihove prihodnosti. Urbane vizije kot vidik strateškega načrtovanja so lahko izhodišče za radikalno preobrazbo načina, na katerega se kraji razvijajo v mesta prihodnosti, ki uspešno rešujejo trenutne izzive. Članek, ki izhaja iz antropologije prihodnosti in načrtovanja, analizira, kako si mesta zamišljajo svojo prihodnost in kako jo upovedujejo
The paper presents the concept of participatory urbanism and analyses its practical implications in the context of the City of Ljubljana. It assesses the potential of participatory methodology for ...physical and social interventions in public spaces through the case-studies of two creative spatial practices: urban community garden Onkraj gradbišča / Beyond the construction site and community-led renovation of Savsko naselje neighbourhood. It indicates how bottom-up initiatives can contribute to sustainable development of an urban area, especially to its environmental and social features. It concludes with the ideas of how cities might engage with bottom-up spatial practices to increase the effectiveness of urban spatial planning, management and administration, and to boost their green creative image.
The article uses a case-study of a Slovenian secondary school to discuss national specifics and European trajectories of entrepreneurship education. It is based on an historical overview of its ...development in Slovenia and narrative interviews with educators, headmasters, mentors, and students to illustrate how educational opportunities shape students’ agency. Adding to the standard argument of the neoliberalisation of contemporary education in which students are seen as human capital, the article analyses how the school works with them in regular programmes and extracurricular activities to avoid neoliberal labelling. It fosters volunteering, addresses local problems, and encourages the critical assessment of the need to intervene.
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