Enhancing Urban Encounters: The Transformative Powers of Creative Integration Initiatives
Sustainable cites require the capacity to live with difference. In a world of increased mobility and migration, our cities become more and more diversified. While national discourses on diversity are often problem-focused, social initiatives are emerging in diverse cities addressing the positive pot...
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| description | Sustainable cites require the capacity to live with difference. In a world of increased mobility and migration, our cities become more and more diversified. While national discourses on diversity are often problem-focused, social initiatives are emerging in diverse cities addressing the positive potential of the city as a cross-cultural meeting place. In Norway, such initiatives have increased in number since “the refugee crisis” in 2015, and we see creative approaches arising from civil society, the voluntary sector, private companies, and local governments aiming to facilitate encounters with difference. This article explores innovative integration initiatives in cities in the north, emphasizing how difference might be negotiated, engendering new forms of engagement and responsibility. Cities are seen as sites of experiments, where new relations across difference are developed. Framing encounters as emergent, transitory, fragile, yet hopeful, we discuss the transformative powers of such initiatives for planning in diverse cities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6971542dabf3474e90f353bba0086bef2022-12-22T01:59:57ZengCogitatioUrban Planning2183-76352019-01-0141445210.17645/up.v4i1.1713929Enhancing Urban Encounters: The Transformative Powers of Creative Integration InitiativesAnniken Førde0Department of Social Sciences, UiT, The Arctic University of Norway, NorwaySustainable cites require the capacity to live with difference. In a world of increased mobility and migration, our cities become more and more diversified. While national discourses on diversity are often problem-focused, social initiatives are emerging in diverse cities addressing the positive potential of the city as a cross-cultural meeting place. In Norway, such initiatives have increased in number since “the refugee crisis” in 2015, and we see creative approaches arising from civil society, the voluntary sector, private companies, and local governments aiming to facilitate encounters with difference. This article explores innovative integration initiatives in cities in the north, emphasizing how difference might be negotiated, engendering new forms of engagement and responsibility. Cities are seen as sites of experiments, where new relations across difference are developed. Framing encounters as emergent, transitory, fragile, yet hopeful, we discuss the transformative powers of such initiatives for planning in diverse cities.https://www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/article/view/1713collective learningcross-cultural dialoguesencounterForum Theatreintegrationplanning diversitysocial initiativessocial innovationsituational understanding |
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| title | Enhancing Urban Encounters: The Transformative Powers of Creative Integration Initiatives |
| title_full | Enhancing Urban Encounters: The Transformative Powers of Creative Integration Initiatives |
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| title_short | Enhancing Urban Encounters: The Transformative Powers of Creative Integration Initiatives |
| title_sort | enhancing urban encounters the transformative powers of creative integration initiatives |
| topic | collective learning cross-cultural dialogues encounter Forum Theatre integration planning diversity social initiatives social innovation situational understanding |
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