Ordering Principles in a Dynamic World of Change – On social complexity, transformation and the conditions for balancing purposeful interventions and spontaneous change

Roo, Gert de

doi:10.1016/j.progress.2017.04.002

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“…Seen from a broader perspective on planning in transition, playful and game-like settings provide hope for change across established thoughts. This may bridge existing but as yet unintegrated approaches to fostering urban transformations and related roles from art (Holub/ Hohenbüchler 2014;Aßmann/Bader/Shipwright et al 2017), cultural science (Reinermann/Behr 2017), governance and institutional change (Loorbach/ Wittmayer/Shiroyama 2016;Bisschops/Beunen 2018) and planning (Lamker 2016;Loepfe/Eisinger 2017;de Roo 2018;Knieling/Klindworth 2018). Planning research would benefit from extending role-based thinking to include more elements of reflexivity and openness towards emerging roles and flexible uses thereof.…”

Section: Concluding Remarks: Planning Transitions For Spatial Transfomentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Current forces of global social and spatial transformations seem to accelerate the scope and dynamics of uncertainties. They challenge existing modes of thinking and acting by planners across spatial scales (Barnett/Parnell 2016;Loorbach/Wittmayer/Shiroyama et al 2016;de Leo/Forester 2017;de Roo 2018). For some, this resembles an image of 'uncharted waters' that calls for creative experimentation, for new inclusive democratic approaches and for thinking through potentialities (Hillier 2010: 472 f.;Rauws 2017: 32 f.).…”

Section: Planning In Uncharted Watersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Transformation and planning are increasingly connected to issues of governing processes of transformation, transformative experimentation and learning, and the changing roles of planners under fluidity and uncertainty (Lamker 2016;Loorbach/Wittmayer/ Shiroyama et al 2016;Loepfe/Eisinger 2017;de Roo 2018;Knieling/Klindworth 2018). Planning for societal and spatial transformations includes the active creation and design of spaces for thinking and acting, co-production and adaptation and inclusive processes (Barnett/Parnell 2016;Friend/Anwar/Dixit et al 2016;Rauws 2017).…”

Section: Planning In Uncharted Watersmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Lamker

2019

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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. Zusammenfassung: Prozesse komplexer räumlicher Transformationen sind für Planer vergleichbar mit einem unerforschten Land oder einer ungewissen Reise. Viele mögliche Rollenverständnisse überlagern sich und stehen traditionellen und etablierten Denk-und Handlungsweisen gegenüber. Dabei geht es um Navigieren statt Kontrollieren, um Unterstützen statt Durchsetzen. In der Planung fehlen hingegen geeignete Werkzeuge, um bei Unsicherheit zu denken und zu handeln. Dieser Beitrag arbeitet rollenreflexive Planung als pädagogischen und experimentellen Ansatz heraus. Er bietet Grundlagen an der Schnittstelle von räumlicher Planung zur Transitionsforschung unter Verwendung rollenbasierter Ideen als Brücke. Er enthält einen Überblick über unterschiedliche Rollenverständnisse, die für Planung für und mit Transformationen für Planer relevant sind. Er entwickelt eine rollenreflexive Planung, die zwischen Kontext und Handlungen vermittelt sowie mit individuellem Verhalten in Planungsprozessen verbindet. Als Grundlage arbeitet der Beitrag Erfahrungen aus einem Rollenspiel in einem Pilotworkshop zur Transition zu einer Postwachstumsplanung auf. Er umreißt, wie Rollenspiele die eigenen Rollen von Akteuren über die individuelle Planung in unbekannten Gewässern: Räumliche Transformationen, Planungswandel und rollenreflexive Planung

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Section: Concluding Remarks: Planning Transitions For Spatial Transfomentioning

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Section: Planning In Uncharted Watersmentioning

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Section: Planning In Uncharted Watersmentioning

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

Lamker

2019

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“…(4) Interventions: How do they act and intervene in space? Purposeful interventions are key to spatial planning in order to transform space and place from their current state into how they should be in the future [47]. Seen from this perspective, the interventions of citizen initiatives can relate to and impact the spatial environment (the material world and its spatial and social characteristics) as well as the institutional environment (the domain of planning, policy and decision-making) [48].…”

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Citizen Engagement in Spatial Planning, Shaping Places Together

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This paper explores the roles and practices of collective citizen engagement in spatial planning. Drawing on a selection of core articles in planning scholarship, it investigates how citizens (re-)shape urban places by responding to perceived flaws in how spatial planning addresses societal challenges. Formal planning interventions are often spatially and socially selective, ineffective, or even non-existent due to a lack of institutional capacities and resources. Consequently, citizens take on roles that they consider as missing, underperformed or ineffective. The paper shows that this results in a variety of practices complementary to, independent from, or opposing formal planning actors and interventions. Five dilemmas citizens face are identified, highlighting the tensions that surface on exclusion, participation, and governmental responsibilities when citizens claim their role in urban governance.

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“…The research on developing productive relations between self-organizing social systems and planned intervention is therefore a growing field within urban governance and the spatial planning literature (De Bruijn and Gerrits, 2018;De Roo, 2016, 2017. It is believed that with appropriate revisions and a slight change in attitude, planning can become sensitive to, and beneficial for, a world of autonomous change (Nederhand et al, 2016).…”

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Understanding self-organization and formal institutions in peri-urban transformations: A case study from Beijing

Zhang

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Rauws

2019

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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This article explores the mechanisms of urban self-organization and the role of formal institutions in shaping peri-urban areas. A case study of Gaobeidian, a former rural village that is now part of Beijing, examines the mechanisms of change and the interdependent relations between institutions and bottom-up initiatives that drive peri-urban transformations. The paper presents two main contributions: (1) it identifies the differences between government-controlled planning, shared governance, self-governance and self-organization and how these intertwine in urban transformations; (2) it proposes three distinct roles played by institutions in relation to self-organization: triggering, constraining and enabling. The empirical study of this Chinese case will enrich the current debate on planning for self-organizing cities by revealing the impact of, and the various responses to, self-organization dynamics in a hierarchical institutional environment.

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Ordering Principles in a Dynamic World of Change – On social complexity, transformation and the conditions for balancing purposeful interventions and spontaneous change

Cited by 22 publications

References 68 publications

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

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

Citizen Engagement in Spatial Planning, Shaping Places Together

Understanding self-organization and formal institutions in peri-urban transformations: A case study from Beijing

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