The organizing committee of the conference is composed of a group of researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), particularly affiliated with ISOR-UAB (Research in Sociology of Religion) and the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability (BCNUEJ) at ICTA-UAB (Institute of Environmental Science and Technology), the ODEEN project at the Centre for Religion, Conflict and Globalization at the University of Groningen, and a senior expert in planetary health from the Center for Innovation in Technology for Human Development at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (itdUPM) at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. This collaboration was born out of the transdisciplinary process initiated through Viable Unknowns, a Creative Europe project that brings together social sciences, environmental sciences, and participatory theatre methodologies.
The conference is envisioned as a space to advance this transdisciplinary collaboration, offering fertile ground for collective experimentation and knowledge co-creation. In this spirit, the organization of the event draws support from several key institutional actors within and beyond UAB.
Notably, UAB COREs (Communities Oriented to Strategic Challenges) are key partners in shaping and supporting this initiative. These cross-disciplinary communities mobilize the university’s academic, technical, and social capital around pressing societal challenges. They serve as institutional platforms to foster collaborative research, public engagement, and policy impact in areas such as sustainability, education, health, heritage and the digital society.
Together, the committee curates a program that bridges disciplinary boundaries, centers plurality, and opens up imaginative pathways toward alternative ways of moving forward collectively.