In contrast to our work on democratization, our environmental portfolio was slow to start. In the early years, there was little explicit work on the environment (let alone climate change), because all other topics were overshadowed by the need to set up democratic institutional arrangements and come to terms with the recent wartime past. However, our environmental work took off from 2013, when we introduced an Environment and Energy component to support the impulse from civil society to start tackling these issues and pressure the government to undertake necessary reforms in line with EU environmental regulations, while ensuring that those most vulnerable were not left behind. The second episode includes interviews with our partners in this component and current and former colleagues, covering a range of sub-topics such as energy law, energy poverty, citizen energy, and environmental reforms as part of the EU integration process.

Episode 4 is the longest and was the most complex to assemble because it covers what has become our office’s flagship topic - urban planning, housing, and the commons. Thinking about urban commons began as a series of talks in the early 2010s, and a publication on what kind of city we should strive for. This gave rise to an ecosystem of partner organizations dealing with these topics in various ways, and a sprawling back catalog of progressive and imaginative work on independent culture, collaborative models of governance over common goods, beyond the hegemonic paradigm of nationalism and private ownership. Work on independent culture in particular has proven adept at breaking through that paradigm, enabling a cross-pollination of ideas between artists from Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, as well as other neighboring countries. More recently, this work has been directed at reaching out directly to citizens impacted by unwanted urban projects, providing them with urban planning expertise necessary to resist and make their voices heard through official channels.