Futurizing cities as equal for all citizens

Jolanta Vaičiūnienė, Butkevičienė Eglė, Raminta Pučėtaitė

The project focuses on embedding the equal opportunity policies in municipal services in the fields of education, healthcare, social security, culture and law enforcement for socially vulnerable groups such as LGBTQI+ people, single mothers raising a child with disability, immigrants from culturally different societies, formerly incarcerated persons. The Futures Workshops were run in four municipalities in Lithuania and gathered from 8 to 25 participants in each from December 2024 to April 2025. Some groups built futures narratives that broke silence on inconvenient topics such as LGBTQI+ needs, identified gaps in municipalities‘ approaches to studying local residents‘ needs through data collection and analysis and overall, as one of the participants noted, gave time „to reflect on culture in culture“.