PLANNING AND COMPLEXITY

The aim of the group is to contribute to the creation and maintenance of a network of lecturers and researchers, who are willing to explore and debate new developments influencing both planning theory and practice in the light of non-linearity, resilience, adaptivity, complexity, complexity thinking and complex adaptive systems.

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Coordinator
Dr. Christian Lamker
/Dr.%20Jenni%20Partanen
Coordinator
Dr. Jenni Partanen
/Prof.dr.%20Gert%20de%20Roo
Contributor
Prof.dr. Gert de Roo
/Dr.%20Ward%20Rauws
Contributor
Dr. Ward Rauws
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Planning and Complexity
Planning and Complexity
Call for Papers: The Dynamics of Panarchy - Gothenburg, 27-28 Nov 2025
Tuesday, April 01, 2025
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 23rd Planning & Complexity Thematic Meeting | 20th year of the AESOP Thematic Group Planning and Complexity Abstract Submission Deadline:...
Planning and Complexity
The Dynamics of Panarchy - Gothenburg, 27-28 Nov 2025 (Save the Date)
Monday, February 03, 2025
THE DYNAMICS OF PANARCHY – Sensing, Planning and Designing grounded local-regional transformations 27-28 November 2025, Chalmers University of Technology,...
Planning and Complexity
TIME/LESS - Pre-Conference Event (16 Oct) and Workshop (28-30 Nov)
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
TIME/LESS: Sensing, Designing, Planning — the motto for the events that take place over the course of 2024! On the one hand, this title stresses the...
Planning and Complexity
CALL FOR PAPERS TIME/LESS SENSING, PLANNING, DESIGNING IN COMPLEX CITIES AND REGIONS (EXTENDED)
Tuesday, April 02, 2024
28-29 November 2024, RWTH Aachen University Time is too often a peripheral element in scholarly and practical discourses. It is frequently treated as a...
Planning and Complexity
It’s that TIME again – Save-the-Date for AESOP TG Planning and Complexity Events in 2024
Wednesday, December 20, 2023
Towards the end of 2023, we have news to share to kick-start all of us into 2024. We have noticed many publications in the past year that can boost all of our...
Planning and Complexity
Invitation: Pre-Conference Keynote "Generalized Trust and the Governance of Complex Systems" (Prof. Sakano, ONLINE, Fri 17 March, 10.00h CET)
Monday, March 06, 2023
On behalf of the Manchester team who will host our next group meeting in April 2023, we are excited to announce the 1st Pre-Meeting Theory Keynote for the...
Planning and Complexity
Extended: Complex [Cognitive] Cities: Sensing, planning and design in urban transformations
Friday, November 18, 2022
20-22 April 2023, Manchester (UK) - The 21st meeting Complex [Cognitive] Cities: Sensing, planning and design in urban transformations We still have a few...
Planning and Complexity
Sensing the City: tracing complex urban patterns and their implications for urban governance
Sunday, November 28, 2021
21-22 July 2022, Tallinn, Estonia Cities are in the midst of a revolution fueled by so-called smartification and digitalization of the urban. Myriads of...
Planning and Complexity
Book presentation: Handbook on Cities & Complexity
Monday, November 15, 2021
Online and interactive book presentation of the Handbook on Cities & Complexity The event will be held on 9th of December 2021 : 14:00-16:00 Central European...
Planning and Complexity
19th meeting: Social disruption and urban complexity
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
The event in a nutshell Informal, open, and online event promoted by University of Florence [Critical Planning and Design Lab] with University of Groningen...
Planning and Complexity
18th meeting: Games for Cities
Friday, October 11, 2019
Cities are multidimensional complex systems. While they always have been, today’s societies are confronted with accelerating dynamics. Processes such as...
Planning and Complexity
TG's activities at AESOP Annual Congress 2019
Sunday, July 07, 2019
Round Table on Adaptive Cities - Mitigation, Adaptation, Innovation How do we future proof existing and new cities in a way that they can adapt to new...

FOCUS

The members of the thematic group meet every half year. Together they explore linkages between spatial planning, non-linearity and the science of complexity, processes of adaptivity, mechanisms of self-organization, transformation towards a resilient society, transition managemant and many more issues. Out of various events (Vienna, Reading, Cardiff, Mexico City, Cambridge, Stuttgart, Milano, Tessalonici, Stockholm,  Istanbul, Groningen, Bamberg) publications have emerged:

PUBLICATIONS

Self-organisation & Spatial Planning
Rauws, W.S., G. De Roo & S. Zhang (2016) Self-organisation & Spatial Planning, Town Planning Review, Special Issue
A Planner's Encounter with Complexity
De Roo, G & E.S. Silva (2010) A Planner's Encounter with Complexity, Ashgate Publishers, Farnham (UK)
Complexity & Planning: Systems, Assemblages and Simulations
De Roo, G., J. Hillier & J.E. Van Wezemael (2012) Complexity & Planning: Systems, Assemblages and Simulations, Ashgate Publishers, Farnham (UK)
Planning and complexity: Engaging with temporal dynamics, uncertainty and complex adaptive systems
Sengupta, U., Rauws, W.S., G. De Roo (2016) Planning and complexity: Engaging with temporal dynamics, uncertainty and complex adaptive systems. Environment and Planning B, Themed Issue