Program
Friday, 16th November 2012
14.00 Welcome by Ward Rauws (co-chair Aesop Thematic Workgroup on Complexity & Planning)
14.10 Opening Speech by prof Gert de Roo (President of Aesop) - Non-linearity, Complexity and Spatial Planning: fundamental insights
14.30 Paper presentations
Glazen Zaal (Moderator: Beitske Boonstra)
Matthew Cook, Ward Rauws & Jeffrey Johnson - Toward an evolutionary approach to understanding the role of design in collaborative planning
Helena Farrell & Lia Vasconceles- Complexity and knowledge building: a challenge for planners
Matthias Loepfe & Joris Van Wezemael - Concrete machines: Collective decision-making process in complex planning situations as practices of ‘closure’
Club Lounge (Moderator: Chris Zuidema)
Lauri Lithmaa - Scarcity, actions and goals (SAG): A conceptual tool to address complexity and foster collaboration
Marian Günzel & Christian Lamker - Managing complexity: The collaborative rationale and strategic discourses discussed by the example of the German energy turnaround
Iza Mironowicz - Conceptual Framework for New Thinking in Planning (perceiving planning, defining planning?)
16.00 Coffee break
16.30 Paper presentations
Glazen Zaal (Moderator: Mathew Cook)
Stefan Hartman - Simulating spatial quality: governing the tensions between robustness and flexibility
Thomas Hartmann & Barrie Needham - Lock-in situations in planning: the role of law and property rights
Ingmar Meerkerk, Jurian Edelenbos & Corniel van Leeuwen - Vitality in complex regional water systems
Club Lounge (Moderator: Paolo Silva)
Beitske Boonstra - Translational self-organization: a way out of the participatory planning paradox?
Frits Verhees - Public private partnership, a collaborative approach seen in the light of complexity thinking
Zhang Shuhai & Ward Rauws - Understanding the role of institutions in self-organizing cities18.00 Closing
Saturday, 17th November 2012
09.00 Paper presentations
Glazen Zaal (Moderator: Ward Rauws)
David Booher - An introduction to Collaborative Rationalityin practice with examples from California
Paolo Silva - Planning paradigms, between pre-conditions and forecasts – plans, actors and time
Christian Zuidema - Reflecting on complexity in planning:a post-contingence approach
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Key Note address prof Judith Innes - Complexity, Networks and Regional SustainabilityCase Studies from California
12.00 Lunch
13.30 Paper presentations
Glazen Zaal (Moderator Stefan Hartman)
Martine de Jong - Coalition Planning at the interface of institutions
Kristina L. Nilsson -The complex planning practice situation in the blooming mining community of Pajala
Ulysses Sengupta - Loose fit: a spatio-temporal approach in incorporating bottom up behaviours
Club Lounge (Moderator Ward Rauws)
Lucia Dobrucka - Strategic governance and planning as a fractal
G. Erdogan & K.M. Cubukcu - Explaining space-filling efficiency in populated cities using urban explainatory variables
15.00 Closing and drinks