We invite Scholars, Urban Researchers, and Practitioners, to submit their abstracts, posters and non-traditional academic work under the conference theme “Inequalities and the City. Old Issues, New Challenges.”
This is your opportunity to present your research in Vienna, share insights, and engage in dialogue with an international community tackling the urgent challenges of urban inequalities.
From addressing long-standing issues like segregation and housing to exploring new dynamics shaped by climate change, digitalization, or conflict – we look forward to your submissions!
Deadline for submission: 29 Dec 2025
About the Research Platform
The pivotal characteristic of the Research Platform “The Challenge of Urban Futures” is its epistemological breadth, in that it aims at scrutinising ecologies of relations that connect multiple thematic areas. The Platform aims at unravelling the social, cultural, economic and politico-institutional mechanisms underlying the convergences and divergences across European cities to track the transformation of urban structures over the last four decades.
Given the wide gamut of issues cities are facing, we focus our research endeavours on five thematic areas: Society and Culture, Economy and Redistribution, Environment and Sustainability, Technology and Surveillance, and Urban Government and Governance. More in detail, our research activities will sit at the intersection of these multiple thematic areas. To achieve this ambitious task, our Research Platform will bring together researchers both within and outside the University of Vienna sharing complementary expertise on the multifarious facets of urban studies.
