LUP-32306 Practical Course Strategic Planning

Course

Credits 6.00

Language of instruction:

Dutch

Contents:

This practical course is a problem oriented course and design studio in which the students are challenged to analyse and solve a complex planning problem taken from practice. Interdisciplinary research and stakeholder participation is a necessary ingredient of this course. Learning by doing is combined with systematic application of prescriptions taken from the planning methodology course LUP-33304. Staff members perform the role of advisers on the job. Core data are taken from a real time planning process and presented by practicing planners. In the studio, taking several weeks of full time group work, students practise a combination of the decision-oriented and design-oriented approach of planning.
The studio reflects an incremental and cyclical planning process. Students are tempted to produce a planning proposal for a regional spatial plan. In the annexes students produce a detailed report of the process and the invisible products. Emphasis is laid upon the argumentative part of the work and the role of professionals in planning. Stakeholder participation is simulated in non-regular plenary sessions in the beginning and at the end of the course. Students work under very strict time constraints and are thus confronted with a range of uncertainties. The course helps students to develop facilitation and mediation skills so much needed in modern collaborative planning practice.