AESOP 2024 ANNUAL CONGRESS | SPECIAL SESSIONS

36th AESOP Annual Congress 2024 Paris, France
“GAME CHANGER? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions”

 

The Future of Planning: What are we facing and how do we prepare?

This Special Session is hosted within Track 12

Organizer:

  • Thorsten Wiechmann, TU Dortmund & ARL

Speakers:

  • Petra Hurtado, American Planning Association
  • Marion Klemme,  Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development
  • Thorsten Wiechmann, TU Dortmund & ARL
  • Sila Ceren Varis Husar, Slovak University of Technology
  • Milan Husar, Slovak University of Technology

The main theme of the AESOP Congress 2024 asks what are real "game-changers" for the development of just and sustainable urban regions. This question cannot be answered without a deep consideration of the current and future megatrends that frame the future of planning.

We live in a world of rapid change. Technological innovations as well as political and social trends mean that tomorrow's world will be different. Change offers opportunities but also threats. So far, however, there is hardly any debate about how spatial planning can adapt to new realities. It will not be able to escape this. 

The aim of the session is to present scenarios of alternative futures for spatial planning and to discuss the need for action resulting from the scenarios. It is about thinking about the planning of the day after tomorrow, about the societal value of integrative approaches of responsible spatial development in the 21st century.

For this purpose, the results of various research projects on the future of planning will be presented and discussed, including the Trend Report for Planners by the American Planning Association (APA) and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, the scenarios of the ARL on the future of planning and the study 'The city of the day after tomorrow' by the German Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR). In addition, there will be a contribution on the future of planning from AESOP's YA Network.

The Special Session is organized by the Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association (ARL).

Keywords: Future planning; Foresight; Scenarios; Uncertainties; Trends 

LOC

The Local Organising Committee

/Marco%20Cremaschi
Sciences Po
Marco Cremaschi
Professor, Director of the Master Program in Urban Planning, CEE, Chair
/Eleonora%20Russo
Sciences Po
Eleonora Russo
General Secretary, CEE, Co-Deputy Chair of the LOC, Coordination of the Event, Finance and Operations Administrator
/Ilaria%20Milazzo
Sciences Po
Ilaria Milazzo
Executive Director, Urban School, Co-Deputy Chair of the LOC, registration, internal affairs
/Jérôme%20Baratier
Sciences Po
Jérôme Baratier
Adjunct professor Urban Management
/Florence%20Faucher
Sciences Po
Florence Faucher
Professor, director of the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics
/Charlotte%20Halpern
Sciences Po
Charlotte Halpern
Senior research fellow, director of the Executive Master Gouvernance territoriale et développement urbain
/Sukriti%20Issar
Sciences Po
Sukriti Issar
Associate professor, director of the Master program Governing the large metropolis
/Patrick%20Le%20Galès
Sciences Po
Patrick Le Galès
CNRS research professor
/Giacomo%20Parrinello
Sciences Po
Giacomo Parrinello
Research fellow, director of the Master program Governing Ecological Transitions in European cities
/Champaka%20Rajagopal
Sciences Po
Champaka Rajagopal
Adjunct professor Urban Planning (India)
/Tommaso%20Vitale
Sciences Po
Tommaso Vitale
Dean, Urban School
/Eric%20Verdeil
Sciences Po
Eric Verdeil
Professor, Director of the Master Program in Urban and territorial strategies, CERI