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Horizonte

Horizon - An adaption

An adaptation of the Horizon game developed at CETAPS for the Internet Safety Day 2026
Futures under threat

Futures under threat - Workshop

This workshop introduces "Futures Lab" as an innovative participatory method that combines social psychology, futures studies, and utopian studies to explore how people imagine, negotiate, and contest the futures. Focusing on the energy transition, we will explore the moral values and identities guiding what futures are seen as desirable, acceptable, or resistible. Join us on February 13th, 2026 (14h00-16h00), FLUP - Meeting Room II (2nd floor)
Professor Sarrica during the interview with the JRAAS team.

Interview with Professor Mauro Sarrica

We recently hosted Professor Mauro Sarrica at the Centre for a few days. He is a Full Professor of Social Psychology from the Sapienza University of Rome and will soon be joining the University of Padua. Given that his research spans environmental and peace psychology, we organised a roundtable on the social aspects of the energy transition. The following day we had the opportunity to briefly interview him regarding his work on the matter.

Photograph of the 2026 JRAAS members (from left to right: Jamie Santos, Inês Pastor, Carolina Leão, M. Ribeiro Cameira)

The Four Musketeers

New year. New beginnings. New JRAAS team.

There are many ways we could go about this, but, seeing as we went through the predicament of taking several dozen photos until we could agree on one, we might as well start there. Of course, the camera might have found a less demanding crowd in a group of strangers, but as four friends who have known each other for over a year and half, we were very demanding on our poor photographer. Begrudgingly, we have included the group favourite as the cover for this entry.

The Horizon game

Playing Utopia

What would it be like to create your own society? One in which you could find imaginative ways to repair the problems of our day? Students and scholars of utopianism at CETAPS in Porto set out to answer these questions by creating a board game, Horizon, in which players build their own utopia through collaborative discussion. I organized two trials of the beta version of Horizon with groups of friends at Dona Mira in Bonfim on 8 March and at the former Vintu in Cedofeita on 25 July to find out how people outside the world of utopian studies would respond.
Mauro Sarrica

Neither Sustainable nor Community-Oriented: Hegemonic Representations and Unjust Transition Mechanisms in Italy

This month, CETAPS will receive Mauro Sarrica (Sapienza University of Rome). You're invited to join us for a talk on energy transition and unjust policies next Monday, January 12th from 15:00 to 17:00 at the Department of Anglo-American Studies (Tower A, A267).