Abstract In 2023, the SIEF convenors set out the multivalent character of “uncertainty” as at once opening up terrains riddled by catastrophe, reminding us of a quality of everyday being, while also promising alternative paths and possibilities. This talk, presented in Brno as the Congress Keynote, offered one way to engage with this complex field. It proposed to interrogate the notion of uncertainty through another multivalent notion, “relations”. Might our ability to perceive relations – activate them, embody th…