Key Dates
Topics
How planning education can contribute to fostering the legitimacy of planning and the planning profession in challenging and often fractious times.
How planning education can become more inclusive, both as regards the substantive themes it addresses and the opportunities it provides to learners to become future planners.
The proposition to be explored is that these two themes are interlinked and strongly co-dependent and that striving to make planning education more inclusive is fundamental to renewing planning’s legitimacy.
General Program
EXCO MEETING | 11 - 3
Venue: University of Liverpool Campus, Roxby Tower
COREP MEETING | 12-3
Venue: University of Liverpool Campus, Jane Herdman Building – Welcome from the University Vice Chancellor (President)
HOS MEETING | 13-3
Venue: The Women's Organisation
CITY TOURS | 14-3
1) Liverpool City Centre North and Liverpool Waters
2) New Brighton – Wirral Peninsula
2) New Brighton – Wirral Peninsula
HEADS OF SCHOOLS MEETING | MARCH 13
Venue: The Women's Organisation
Legitimate and Inclusive Planning Education for Changing and Challenging times
Registration
Welcome
• AESOP President Maria Håkansson
• Olivier Sykes Planning@Liverpool
• Olivier Sykes Planning@Liverpool
Liverpool Local Planning and Inclusive Growth
• Nick Small Cabinet Member for Growth and Economy, Liverpool City Council
• Nick Small Cabinet Member for Growth and Economy, Liverpool City Council
Engaged Urban Pedagogy: reflecting on participatory practices and legitimacy in planning education
• Lucy Natarajan, UCL
• Lucy Natarajan, UCL
Tea & Coffee
Attention economics, artificial intelligence, and the future of the planning profession
• Jonathan Metzger, KTH
• Jonathan Metzger, KTH
Integrated Planning Approaches in higher Education
AESOP QR Recognition
Lunch + QR infodesk
Breakout Session 1
Legitimacy and Planning
• University of Liverpool
• University of Liverpool
Breakout Session 2
Delivering Authentic Planning Education from the Start
• RTPI NW and University of Liverpool
• RTPI NW and University of Liverpool
Tea & Coffee + QR infodesk
Breakout Session 4
Action for Professional Inclusion
• RTPI
• RTPI
Feedback and conclusions
Social dinner
Frederick’s, Hope Street, Liverpool
Keynote Speakers
Local Organising Committee
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