TRACK 10: EDUCATION

We are in a time of major upheaval and change, including net zero ambitions and new approaches to seeing nature as having rights, such as rivers as stakeholders in decisions about the future. Planning has always involved working across disciplines, with engineering and economics as well as spatial analysis, but we now need to work more closely with ecology, natural science and landscape planners. The planning profession has an opportunity to make a game-changing contribution to shifts to a sustainable and just society, but this will require very different skills from those of the past. 

Teaching about climate change and biodiversity loss can induce a great sense of eco-anxiety and anguish. As educators, we must consider how to balance optimism and eco-anxiety for ourselves and our students. At the same time as considering the voices of local communities and the natural world, we are tasked with delivering major infrastructure projects and events. What is our role as educators in helping students to navigate these tensions? 

This track invites theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions on the role of planning education in helping secure sustainable and just futures, innovative pedagogical approaches to developing the necessary skills and competencies and navigating the tensions involved. The track also invites consideration of alternative routes for planning education, such as apprenticeships and real-life projects, and novel ways to encourage cross-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary learning.  

Keywords: Planning education, pedagogy, planning curricula, community engagement skills, sustainability skills, cross-disciplinary learning, trans-disciplinary learning

1. Emmanuelle Bonneau - Tales Of The Future: Multidisciplinary Workshops To Explore The Narrative Aspects Of Change Management
2. Matthew Gebhardt - Exploring Learning Circles As A Teaching Method For Team Building, Reflection, And Navigating The Dynamics Of Planning Practice
3. Manuela Madeddu, et al. - The Value Of Design In Planning Education. Comparing Planning Programmes In England, Italy And Portugal
4. Filipa Wunderlich - Teaching Research In Urban Design: Critical Thinking, Interdisciplinarity And The Role Of Design As Either Enquiry Or Illustrative Tool
5. Anna Kaczorowska - Building Tomorrow's Urban Futures: Reflections On The “Builddigicraft” Project And The Pursuit Of High-Quality “Baukultur” In Higher Education.
6. Annalisa Rollandi - Revitalizing Cities With The Planning Education. The Tactical Urbanism Role For Wellbeing And Community Engagement

• Eva Álvarez de Andrés - "The City and the Environment" (Department of Urban and Territorial Planning at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain) 
• Fabiano Lemes de Oliviera - ⁠“Urban and Environmental Design Studio” (School of Architecture, Urban Planning, Construction Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy)  
• Elin Bórrud - “Building Competence of Participation in Planning” (Centre for Integrated and Transdisciplinary Teaching in Planning at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway)  

1. Juanjo Galan Vivas - Integrative Planning And Synergic Urban Infrastructures: A Case Study In The Vlc_Summer School
2. Andrea I Frank - Interdisciplinarity: Experiences Of Joint Teaching With Environmental And Public Health Colleagues
3. Barbara Steinbrunner - Raising Awareness Of Land Use, Soil Sealing And Internal Development With The “Walk & Talk” Method
4. Pavel Grabalov - Knowledge Transfer Among Practitioners: Investigating In-House Training In The Norwegian Planning Industry
5. Aleksandra Stupar - Embracing The Green Curricula?  The New European Bauhaus As A Driver Of Environmental Change In The University Education
6. Nadia Charalambous, et al - Transdisciplinary education in Living Labs: Participatory Skills for Sustainable Urban Governance

1. Sila Ceren Varis Husar - Multinational Planning Course Proposal For Healthy Cities
2. Katarzyna Rędzińska - Geospatial Virtual Reality & Planning Ar Laboratory For Education In Spatial Planning
3. Tin Phan - Navigating The Intersection Of Professionalism, Digitalisation, And Institutional Pressures: A Quasi-Experimental Study In Spatial Planning Education
4. Katja Schotte - Sustainable Spatial Transformation Through Platforms - Tu! Temporary University  Hambach As A Recurring Episode
5. Antonia Breckwoldt - Crossing Borders For Resilience. Actionable Knowledge For Integrated Urban Development Planning In Ukraine
6. Fabio Bayro Kaiser - Transforming City Regions: Co-Designing Future Planning Education
7. Cristina Catalanotti: Knowledge in Reform, Transdisciplinary Competences and International Alliances: Reshaping Planning Education toward Future Cities

1. Rosana Rubio Hernández - Speculative Design Of A First-Year Cross-Disciplinary Course On Strong Sustainability: Integrating Landscape Architecture And Planning Practices
2. Camilla Ariani - Education Challenges In The R&Amp;D Infrastructure: The Case Of Rome Technopole
3. Mattijs Van Maasakkers - Teaching Planning In/For Shrinking Cities: Transitions, Interdiscplinarity And Skills.
4. Sasha Tsenkova - Urban Innovation Labs As A Teaching Pedagogy In Planning Education
5. Christine Mady - An Interdisciplinary Urban Studies And Planning Curriculum To Form Gamechangers: A Case From Finland
6. Karen Ray: Interdisciplinary Pedagogical Expectations and the Environmental Agenda: Maintaining the Integrity of Planning Education
7. Cristina Catalanotti, et al: Knowledge in reform, transdisciplinary competences and international alliances: reshaping planning education toward future cities