The “Research Dialogues” Forum, as part of the 3rd Conference on Participatory Design organized by participatory LAB on 5–7 December 2025 at the Agricultural University of Athens, aims to serve as a platform for presenting research, creative work, and movement approaches around the climate crisis, spatial justice, and participatory design. It invites researchers, urban planners/spatial planners, geographers, artists, activists, professionals/ practitioners in the field and representatives of relative institutions to collectively explore and critically reflect on how spatial justice can serve as a lever for social and environmental transformations in a context of multiple crises.
Focusing on the spatial dimensions of the climate crisis, the Forum explores:
- how everyday life, spatial planning, urban policies, and spatial governance are being reconfigured.
- how the role and action of urban movements in the city and planning are determined.
- how contemporary policies, strategies, and forms of governance manage the challenges of the climate crisis
- how communities in Greece, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean advocate for more democratic, just, and participatory approaches to spatial transformation.
This call is addressed to :
- Researchers, PhD candidates, postgraduate students or collectives intereseted in presenting part of their work or research
- Urban planners, architects, geographers and other professionals / practitioners.
- Representatives of relative institutions, municipalities and the broader public sector.
- Final-year students or recent graduates of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Planning or related fields, who wish to present models and design works related to the conference’s themes.
- Artists and designers interested in the relevant themes.
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Means of participation:
- Posters: A concise presentation of research results. (each participant will present their work in a 10-minute oral presentation during the conference as part of organised discussion panels)
- Design Projects: Presentation of undergraduate or postgraduate thesis design projects, related to the themes of the conference.
- Audiovisual material (e.g., video and/or photos)