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Dear colleagues,

Please consider CfP for the upcoming PlanNord 2019 conference

Track 4: Planning methods in practice

Session organizer: Daniel Galland, NMBU & Johanna Lilius, Aalto University

Keywords:  planning practices, professional methods, territorialisation, transdisciplinarity

 

CFP deadline 15th January 2019

 

As a field of knowledge and action, planning assembles, combines and relies on different methods from an array of spatial as well as aspatial disciplines. The role of planning in catering to spatial change is thus defined by an amalgamation of assorted methods that professional planners engage with and are able to use in practice. Planning methods thus have a strong say in legitimizing planning as a force influencing spatial development processes wherein multiple actors, politics and management processes intersect. At the same time, planning can be regarded as a methodology addressing principles of theoretical constructions, operationalization of concepts, methods of data collection, processing and interpretation, as well as their interconnection.

This track invites contributions focusing on the rationale and use of contemporary planning methods in practice as deployed in different forms and at different spatial scales within the Nordic countries. The track is open for presentations from planning academics and planning practitioners, which address planning methods at the interface between spatial dynamics and societal change with a focus on: i. ongoing theoretical and empirical knowledge of socio-spatial development, real estate development and territorialisation processes; ii. theories and methods related to the interaction between territory and society, including culture, values ​​and mentalities, management technology and planning systems, as well as instruments and methods of practice (regulatory, strategic, deliberative and agonistic); iii. development of planning methods as regards critical reflections on the relationship between theory and practice in urban and regional planning; and iv. exploration of transdisciplinarity in planning education addressing learning methods emerging from the intersection between planning research and practice, particularly with a focus on recent experiences about planning practices in the Nordic countries.

 

PLANNORD 2019
The 9th Nordic Planning Research Symposium
21 – 23 August 2019 / NMBU and Oscarsborg in Norway
Host: The Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Department of Urban and Regional Planning 
 
More information and submission of abstracts: https://www.nmbu.no/en/events/plannord2019/node/35572  

Future challenges to Nordic Planning
Nordic planning is often associated with environmental awareness, social welfare and democracy. PlanNord 2019 recognises that these assumptions are in need of critical revision, in the face of current environmental, social and political challenges. These complex and inter-related challenges arise partly from social transitions, in terms of growing cultural and social diversity due to large-scale and complex movements of goods and people. Further challenges are also caused by accelerating societal transition due to technological developments and environmental changes. Last but not least, emerging political trends at local and global scales generate new challenges for planning.

At PlanNord 2019, we wish to address these challenges and explore their implications for future planning in the Nordic region. Nordic countries have characteristics that distinguish them from other European countries, in terms of lifestyle, culture and politics. They are also geographically distinctive, with extensive sparsely populated regions, large natural areas, long coastlines and few large metropolitan areas. Such contexts require strong and effective integration of urban and regional planning. We welcome academics, practitioners and PhD candidates, in order to build bridges between science and practice, between scientific disciplines, and between Nordic planning communities. 

 

Keynote speakers:
- Gro Sandkjær Hanssen, Senior Researcher at OsloMet and Professor at NMBU, Department of Urban and Regional Planning
- Jonathan Metzger, Docent/PhD at KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm

The symposium theme will be explored in five tracks, for which you are invited to submit presentation proposals. A PhD workshop will take place directly before the symposium, 19–21th August. More information will come soon, but for now please save the date and prepare for submitting your abstract! 

We look forward to see you next summer at PlanNord 2019!

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Johanna Lilius

Postdoctoral Researcher

Department of Architecture

Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture

P.O. Box 16500, FI-00076 AALTO Finland

Tel. +358 50 361 0694