Minutes April 20, 2010

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Round of Introductions

At the beginning, the seminar participants were asked to localise themselves on the European and World maps and to introduce themselves shortly.

Participants localise themselves on the map

Seminar Lecture

Unfortunately, we have been facing some technical problems which prevented a big part of the participants from attending the session. But this has been sorted out and will hopefully not occur again, apologies for the inconvenience! Due to the incomplete attendance we could not really do a full round of presentations, so this will be repeated next Tuesday, 27th of October.

Seminar participants are brainstorming why planning should be participatory

Lecture on Planning Theory

The session started with a planning history lecture by Diedrich Bruns, Kassel University, dealing with the change from Rational Planning to Participatory Planning through the so-called communicative turn. Unfortunately, the computer that was supposed to do the session recording broke down after a couple of minutes, which was the other technical problem happening on that evening. However, the slides are downloadable from the password-protected Moodle webpage from the link below, the password has been given to the seminar participants per e-mail.

Diedrich Bruns: Rational Planning and the Communicative Turn An introduction to the evolution of participatory planning

After this, Diedrich Bruns gave his lecture on participation in relation to the European Landscape Convention. The session slides are available in the passport-protected area:

• Planning according to the European Landscape Convention

These are the participant's ideas on how to implement participation in planning

Seminar Process

In the second part of the session an introduction to the seminar structure and working process was given.

Theory Reading and Distribution of Themes

After this, the theory reading exercise was presented. The participants were asked to select a theme of the participation topic map. The result looked like this:

Participants choose a thematic field for their theory reading

The next step is now to select a reading in the respective section from the Literature and Resources Participation page. The participants will then transform the content of the text into a concept map. The results will be presented and discussed during the third theory session on November 17.

Theory Reading Exercise

A quick feedback round showed that students had basically understood the task and the functionality of the WIKI. So had problems to decide for one specific theme. Please make your decision soon as we intend to plan the short concept map presentations at the end of next week's meeting.

Lecture Recording

Please follow this link for listening to the seminar recording:

• Lecture recording: Planning according to the European Landscape Convention

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