The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred significant changes in the fields of economic development, social issues, everyday life, etc. Activities that used to depend on face-to-face communication were firstly suspended and then shifted to new forms of communication. This includes the public participation process in urban and spatial planning. Therefore, this study explores the new domain developed in urban and spatial planning with regard to public participation and surmises future realms in the post-pandemic era. On the occasion of the virtual collaboration platform Cyber Agora organized by the ISOCARP (International Society of City and Regional Planners), chosen participants got together virtually to share, discuss, and compare their practical knowledge in public participation before and during COVID-19. In addition, they addressed the potential benefits of shifting from traditional to virtual participation and potential benefits in the post-COVID-19 era. Considering the collected data and understanding them in the light of the available literature, this study concludes that the application of a combined approach (using both traditional and virtual modes of participation) is recommended because it would enable a larger number and higher diversity of participants. The study also elaborates particular modes of virtual participation with the pros and cons of their use in a particular context.
La Convención sobre el Valor Patrimonial Cultural para la Sociedad, firmada en Faro en 2005 por el Consejo de Europa puede considerarse un hito para el rol de las comunidades en la conservación y protección del patrimonio cultural. Su carácter singular reside en enfatizar el valor y potencial del patrimonio cultural para ser utilizado como un recurso para el desarrollo sostenible y para fomentar la calidad de vida en una sociedad en permanente evolución, así como para consolidar la cohesión social a través de la promoción de una responsabilidad compartida sobre los lugares habitados.
We present the teaching experience of the History of Architecture II module where we introduced a practical exercise aimed at actively learning the theoretical content of the subject: the history of architecture between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. The knowledge transmission is based on a preliminary project of a building contextualized in the Renaissance or the Baroque eras.The results obtained show a greater linkage of students to the subject, a deeper learning of the compositional rules of the studied ages, and greater satisfaction with the dynamics applied, without sacrificing the objectives of explaining the processes in the environment of the society of the time and its direct relationship with the present. We demonstrate the need to adapt teaching methodologies to the generational changes of the students in the 21st century.
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