Siivonen attended the ESRS congress in Riga, Latvia in July 2025

Katriina Siivonen attended the 30th European Society for Rural Sociology (ESRS) Congress on Navigating rural transitions: Exploring livable futures in Riga, Latvia 7-11 July 2025.

In her paper ‘Cultural sustainability transformation in rural areas‘ she talked about co-creation of sustainable futures, gave examples and preliminary results of the Heritage Futures Workshops organised in Finland during the Ecocrin project.

The paper was in Working Group 7: Can rural be the new creative centre? Place-based innovation and the transformative power of cultural and creative agents in rural areas.