Predrag Milić

Predrag Milić is an urban researcher and practitioner engaged in the field of urban development and critical pedagogy, especially interested in the topics of the oppressed, silenced and impoverished people at the urban periphery of Belgrade. He is an active member of Škograd and Who Builds the City collectives from Belgrade. He is a co-author of the book Political Space Matters (Belgrade: PSM, 2016) and a co-editor of the book How We Build Skograd: Anatomy of the Infrastructure of Hope (Belgrade: Institute of Pedagogy and Andragogy, Faculty of Philosophy, Goethe Institute, 2019). As a doctoral candidate at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Public Space and Urban Culture of the Vienna University of Technology (SkuOR, TU Wien) his special contribution is to the topic of the Social Infrastructure of Hope that he patiently builds and develops in the last six years through work with the marginalized school community of the suburban neighbourhood Ledine in New Belgrade.

Predrag is a member of the international Urban Trialogue team, which conducts research in the field of urban studies with a special focus on urban co-production. He is one of the founders of the Child-Focused Cities working group of the International Center for Local Democracy (ICLD) from Sweden, through which he works on the development of the eponymous analytical framework for the evaluation and development of sustainable development goals (SDG, UN) aimed at children for local governments. His motive for participating in the project is the idea of ​​empowering the community he works with through the development of sensitive, context-specific and just spatial and educational policies.