Planning in uncharted waters: spatial transformations, planning transitions and role-reflexive planning

For planners, processes of complex spatial transformations today are comparable to uncharted land and an uncertain voyage. Many possible role images overlap and contrast to traditional and established ways of thinking and acting. The focus here is on navigating instead of controlling, about support...

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Main Author: Christian Lamker
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: oekom verlag GmbH 2019-04-01
Series:Raumforschung und Raumordnung
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Online Access:http://rur.oekom.de/index.php/rur/article/view/336
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description For planners, processes of complex spatial transformations today are comparable to uncharted land and an uncertain voyage. Many possible role images overlap and contrast to traditional and established ways of thinking and acting. The focus here is on navigating instead of controlling, about supporting instead of enforcing. Planning lacks tools to think and act when facing uncertainty. This paper proposes role-reflexive planning as an educational and experimental approach to thinking through different potentialities. It offers groundwork from the boundary between planning and transition studies, using role-based ideas as a bridge. It offers an overview about different roles that are relevant to working towards transformations as spatial planners. It develops an account of role-reflexive planning that connects between contexts, actions and back to individual modes of behaviour in planning processes. As a basis, this paper condenses experiences of a role-playing pilot workshop and discussions about potential elements of a transition towards 'post-growth planning'. It outlines how role-playing challenges the individual roles of actors beyond the game situations themselves. Conceptual ideas foster a renewed role-based debate on thinking and acting in the face of uncertainty and ways to navigate through the stormy waters of transformation.
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Planning in uncharted waters: spatial transformations, planning transitions and role-reflexive planning
Raumforschung und Raumordnung
Role of planners
role reflection
role-based approach
title Planning in uncharted waters: spatial transformations, planning transitions and role-reflexive planning
title_full Planning in uncharted waters: spatial transformations, planning transitions and role-reflexive planning
title_fullStr Planning in uncharted waters: spatial transformations, planning transitions and role-reflexive planning
title_full_unstemmed Planning in uncharted waters: spatial transformations, planning transitions and role-reflexive planning
title_short Planning in uncharted waters: spatial transformations, planning transitions and role-reflexive planning
title_sort planning in uncharted waters spatial transformations planning transitions and role reflexive planning
topic Role of planners
role reflection
role-based approach
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