EURA 2027 – Announcement

The conference will invite the EURA community to reflect on the spatial reconfiguration of power, governance and meaning, with particular attention to the relations between centres and margins, territorial inequalities, multilevel governance, environmental transitions, housing, participation, digital territories and the future of urban and regional studies.

More information will be available soon on the official EURA 2027 Conference website.

The Conference Theme

How can cities and territories cope with instability, disorder, and radical uncertainty in an era of turbulence, when traditional dualisms (living/inanimate, human/non-human, nature/technology, reality/cognition, centre/periphery, urban/rural) are increasingly dismissed? How can they “ride” the uncontrollable and take advantage of being carried by it?

Major environmental, social, and economic transitions have been identified (due to climate change, global migration and refugee flows, financial crises, and the emergence of a deeply unstable geopolitical situation. However, their interconnections and modes of coping are still poorly understood, and there is still insufficient research and experimentation on how to address them in public policy, also because of their irreducible trans-scalar dimension. New keys are needed to understand how cities and territories work.

In this situation, where governance is fragmented and often conflict-ridden, what actions end up blocked? What actions get through? What are the pathways through which innovation travels? What are the new levers for constructing actions capable of confronting the current urban and territorial situation?

The conference aims to encourage critical reflection on the links between environmental, social, and spatial justice; between institutional action and the agency of citizens and their organisations; and between different kinds of knowledge from the perspective of more than human agency in cities and territories.

Stay tuned!

First announcement & invitation. Much more information is coming soon — including the full programme, keynote speakers, submission guidelines, registration, and practical details.

Save the date. Please mark your calendars and keep an eye on this page and the official EURA channels for updates.