LUP-33306 Methods and Techniques for Planning 2

Course

Credits 6.00

Language of instruction:

Dutch

Contents:

This practical course is an in-depth planning methodology course, focusing at methods and techniques to support strategic planning processes at regional scale level. The course familiarizes the students with methodologies for decision-oriented as well as design-oriented approaches of planning.
The decision-oriented approach includes the toolbox of strategic choice. Students gain an in-depth knowledge and practical skills with the intricacies of choosing strategically, the organizational context, the dilemmas of decision-making and the responses to uncertainty. The emphasis is on the philosophy of strategic choice (methodology) perceived as a joint learning process. The design-oriented approach includes methodology for prospective scenario study. Students gain in-depth knowledge and skills with the construction of alternative futures with the help of creative leaps then taking consecutive steps backward in scale level and time in order to arrive at practicable policy guidelines. Scenarios are considered indispensable for initiating debate about desirable and probable futures.