On Friday, October 3, 2025, the Julija Betetta Hall at the Academy of Music of the University of Ljubljana hosted Architects’ Day, a central professional and public event organized by the Chamber of Architecture and Spatial Planning of Slovenia (ZAPS). This year’s event, entitled “2075”, was dedicated to reflecting on long-term spatial development – not in terms of futuristic technologies, but rather how the spaces we build today will live in fifty years.
At the event, Dr. Hana Hawlina, a researcher at the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana, also gave a plenary lecture, entitled “Lost and Found Futures”.
In her lecture, she reflected on the human ability and responsibility to think about the future and the role of imagination in shaping space. “Isn’t it crazy that we humans are even capable of thinking about the year 2075?” she asked in the introduction, emphasizing that the future never comes true exactly as we plan it. In her words, “the irony of human ability is precisely that we constantly build visions of the future, but often live in the ruins of their mistakes.”
In her lecture, she pointed out that the task of architecture and urbanism is not only to predict the future, but to create the conditions for this future to be sustainable, shared, and open to imagination.
