Conference program
The workshop was hosted by the Department of Spatial Planning and Environment, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. The workshop took place on May 23th-25th, 2018.
The conference included:
- four keynote speakers
- 25 inspiring talks
- 3 workshops
The presentation files can be found at the right >>
Day 1 - Wednesday 23 May 2018
10:00 Registration with coffee (Room: Atrium)
10:30 Opening by Fleur Gräper - Deputy Province of Groningen (Room: Atrium)
10:45 Welcome by Ward Rauws + Hello Game (Room: Atrium)
11:40 Keynote Prof. Michael Batty (Room: Topweer)
12:40 Lunch (Room: Topweer)
13:30 Energizer (Room: Topweer)
13:45 Parallel sessions
Authors: Stephen Marshall and Nick Green
Title: Measuring and mapping organized complexity
Session Chair: Stefan Verweij
Discussant: Stefan Hartman
Authors: Hans Bil and Geert Teisman
Title: Elaborating complexification: an emerging practice in which governments modestly enhance the complexity of decision-making in order to deal more effectively with societal issues
Discussant: Christian Lamker
15:15 Coffee break (Room: Topweer)
15:30 Mini-workshop: Adaptive planning - Ward Rauws (Room: Topweer)
16:15 Coffee break (Room: Topweer)
16:30 Parallel sessions
Session Chair: Ulysses Sengupta
Authors: Solon Soloumou, Ulysses Sengupta and Robert Hyde
Title: A strategic planning problem: examining the unpredictability of urban transformation based on the changing temporal order of planned projects
Discussant: Stephen Marshall
Title: Brownfield development in the light of great housing demand. Building feasibility scenarios in a complex and politicized environment.
Discussant: Mariëlle Prins
Understanding complexity: political dynamics & planners’ roles (Room: Topweer / Format: Classic setup)
Author: Nils Björling
Title: Ecologies: politicizing complex adaptive systems
Discussant: Beitske Boonstra
Author: Christian Lamker
Title: Rethinking planning processes as role-systems – puzzling towards playful spaces of transformation
Authors: Jasper Meekes, Dorina Buda and Gert de Roo
Title: Lessons from complexity: theoretical implications for planning based on the study of leisure-led regional development
Discussant: Ines Portugal
18:00 Drinks (Land van Kokanje, Bar Bubbels)
Day 2 - Thursday 24 May 2018
09:00 Parallel sessions
Author: Angelique Chettiparamb
Title: Responding to a Complex World: Explorations in spatial planning
Discussant: Christian Zuidema
Authors: Mark Zandvoort and Maarten van der Vlist
Title: Planning for infrastructure replacement strategies under uncertainty
Discussant: Javier Ruiz Sánchez
Authors: Camilla Perrone and Gert de Roo
Title: Planning and rationality: a multi layered perspective
Discussant: David Andersson
Author: Sharon Zivkovic
Title: Systemic Innovation Labs: A lab approach for addressing wicked problems
Authors: Emma Puerari and Timo von Wirth
Title: Urban living labs as local transition experiments: a new way of navigation spatial transformations?
Author: Mariëlle Prins
Landing airports. Analysing the transformation of airport areas.
Discussant: Bart Rijke
10:30 Coffee break (Room: Topweer)
11:00 Keynote Prof. Juval Portugali (Room: Topweer)
12:00 Lunch break (Room: Topweer)
13:00 Energizer (Room: Topweer)
13:15-16:15 Workshop with the Province of Groningen (Room: Topweer)
19:00 Dinner (‘t Feithuis)
Day 3 - Friday 25 May 2018
09:00 Parallel sessions (Topweer and Boerdam)
Session Chair: Christian Lamker
Author: Sharon Wohl
Title: Boosting transformative capacity: cultivating affordances within the apparatus of self-organizing urban spaces
Author: Mohamed Saleh
Title: Rethinking planning’s perspective on urban ruptures: the contextual tensions of post-politics in Egypt as illustrative case
Author: Beitske Boonstra
Title: Unplanned or other planned – spatial planning, self-organization and intentionality during the 2015-2016 European refugee crisis
Discussant: Emma Puerari
Authors: David Emanuel Andersson, Fred Folvary and Luca Minola
Title: Fiscal principles for the self-organizing city
Author: Koen Bandsma
Title: Nudging the self-organization process: under which conditions do urban planners perceive nudging an effective instrument to guide processes of self-organization
Authors: Eric Cheung and Ulysses Sengupta
Title: Enabling sustainable mobility: an ICT approach to enabling landscapes for bottom-up processes
Discussant: Claudia Yamu
10:30 Coffee break (Room: Topweer)
11:00 Duo-keynote Prof. Jean Hillier & Prof. Gert de Roo (Room: Topweer)
12:30 Lunch break (Room: Topweer)
13:30 Parallel sessions
Session Chair: Emma Puerari
Discussant: Hans Bil
Author: Ines Portugal
Title: Moving beyond a reductionist approach: Potential for Agent-based modelling and Cellular Automata applications in tourism planning
Discussant: Jasper Meekes
14:30 Coffee & Closing (Room: Topweer)
15:00 End
