Soft spaces, soft planning, and the future of regulatory planning
In the research symposium 鈥淪oft spaces, soft planning, and the future of regulatory planning鈥 we ask, what the future holds for statutory planning and 鈥渉ard鈥 regulatory approaches vis-脿-vis increasing popularity of soft planning approaches, softening of administrative borders and the emergence of informal governance networks. Legal regulation and formal jurisdictions will be needed in the future too, but what kind of regulation and what kind of jurisdictions? Will we see more flexibility in regulation, and what kind of flexibility? Furthermore, what are the consequences of softening of spaces, planning, and regulation as regards the sustainability and democracy aspects of planning?
You are warmly welcome to join us for this symposium. Please sign up for the event by 31 March by sending an email to Hanna Mattila (hama@create.aau.dk).
Organisers: Transforming anatomies of democratic planning project (TRANAPLAN) funded by the Academy of Finland, in collaboration with Aalto University, research group of spatial planning and transportation engineering & Aalborg University, C-MUS Centre for Mobilities and Urban Studies
Contact: Hanna Mattila, hama@create.aau.dk
When
Where
Symposium program
(Subject to minor changes; all times are Danish time, UTC/GMT +1 hour)
Monday 4.4. (Aalborg University, Rendsburggade 14, Aalborg, room 3.565)
10.30鈥10.45 Coffee and welcome
10.45鈥11.00 Opening words: Hanna Mattila (TRANAPLAN project) & Claus Lassen (C-MUS)
11.00鈥11.40 Hanna Mattila & Aleksi Heinil盲: Finnish city-regional planning: soft spaces, soft planning and soft law
11.40鈥12.20 Kristian Olesen: Neoliberalisation as reterritorialisation: 30 years of soft space planning in Denmark
12.20-13.20 Lunch break
13.20鈥14.00 Eva Purkarthofer: Travelling ideas in spatial planning: soft spaces and sustainable urban development
14.00鈥14.40 Tina Vestermann Olsen: The role of temporary activities in processes of site-transformation in Aalborg, Denmark: a maturation of soft(er) planning practices?
14.40鈥15.20 Aleksi Heinil盲: Collaborative planning and rule of law
15.20鈥16.00 Claus Lassen: Mobile place understanding
16.00鈥16.40 Kaisa Granqvist: Soft planning in Helsinki region, Finland
Tuesday 5.4. (Aalborg University, Rendsburggade 14, Aalborg, room 3.565)
9.00鈥9.40 Raine M盲ntysalo: Dialectics of strategic and statutory spatial planning
9.40鈥10.20 Mikko Airikkala: Anticipation work as a soft space of planning? Insights from the development of an integrated system for monitoring and anticipating urban and regional development in Finland.
10.20鈥10.30 Coffee break
10.30鈥11.10 Jonne Hyt枚nen: Contractual policies in Finnish city-regional planning: growth or sustainability orientation?
11.10鈥11.50 Aino Hirvola: De-politicization or re-politicization? The case of contractual urban policies in Finland
11.50鈥12.30 Hanna Mattila, Dylan Chau Huynh and Lea Holst Laursen: Ecological urbanism and the rescaling of urban planning and design
12.30鈥13.30 Lunch break
13.30鈥14.10 Carsten Jahn Hansen: Building planning spaces?
14.10鈥14.50 Michael Toph酶j S酶rensen: Danish holiday home zones as planning spaces
14.50鈥15.30 Dominic Stead: Links and parallels between soft spaces and multi-level governance
15.30鈥 Excursion: Aalborg Growth Axis
Read more about the organisers: TRANAPLAN project (Aalto University) and centre (Aalborg University)